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The Hartford Medical Society’s historical collection of books, journals, and artifacts dating back to the 1500s has returned to the Watkinson Library at Trinity College, having previously been housed there from 1893 to 1898. The collection includes more than 30,000 volumes, 100 archival collections, and 550 medical instruments.

Trinity’s Center for Caribbean Studies helped to organize the raising of the flags of Central American countries at the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford. This was part of the college’s larger efforts to raise awareness of Central American culture, history, and immigrant experiences.

The landmark partnership will support high achieving, low-income students enrolling at Trinity. “This initiative will change lives,” said Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney. “It will open doors to individuals who may have thought that an outstanding liberal arts education was out of reach.”

Recent Trinity College graduate Shawn Olstein ’22 will spend the next year teaching English to students in Taiwan through the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship program. Olstein said that Trinity helped position him to receive this honor from Fulbright. “If you want to go on to a graduate degree or get a fellowship, Trinity is a great place to go,” he said.

Trinity College has named the students who have earned Faculty Honors for the spring 2022 semester.

The new Center for Entrepreneurship will support student, faculty, and alumni interests. Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs Sonia Cardenas said, “The Center for Entrepreneurship will provide any liberal arts major, not just those interested in business or start-ups, with the confidence and know-how to turn ideas into action.”

“Welcome to the new academic year and, for many of you, to the formal beginning to your life as a member of the Trinity College family,” Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney said to the crowd gathered on the Main Quad on September 1. “Students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends, we are all part of the Bantam family.”

Joining the Trinity College community this week are 575 members of the Class of 2026, in addition to 27 transfer students and 5 new Individualized Degree Program students. The members of the Class of 2026 will make history in four years when they graduate at the college’s 200th Commencement.

Fourteen tenure-track faculty members began new appointments at Trinity College on July 1, 2022. Eight of these new faculty members were hired through the college’s Special Opportunity Hiring (SOH) initiative, which was launched last year to help increase faculty diversity.

Shirin Dadina ’24 and Anastasia Hanifin ’23 conducted research with Trinity Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Sally Bernardina Seraphin this summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.