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President Joanne Berger-Sweeney has announced the appointment of five new trustees to the Trinity College Board of Trustees; they will begin their terms on July 1, 2020. Berger-Sweeney also announced the board’s leadership succession plan for 2021.

Trinity trustee and alumnus Eric Fossum’s invention enables video capabilities worldwide

Members of Trinity’s classes of 2008 and 2009 give timely advice to the Class of 2020 about navigating a difficult post-graduation job market.

Xiaomeng “Mona” Deng ’16, a medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, helped establish LA COVID Volunteers (LACV) to support Los Angeles-area health care workers in the fight against the novel coronavirus.

Miranda was awarded the U.S. Student Fulbright Binational Internship Grant in Mexico City

Trinity College students, faculty, and staff are finding ways to continue supporting the Hartford community, even while following social distancing rules during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to a remote volunteering initiative created by the college’s Center for Hartford Engagement and Research (CHER).

Brendan W. Clark ’21 spent several weeks searching through the digital archives of Trinity’s Watkinson Library to research his project, “Trinity College and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918,” which is now the first exhibit in the Watkinson Library Virtual Museum.

Rose Rodriguez ’15, M’18, Trinity’s first sustainability coordinator, has been doing her job remotely by connecting with students and others through Zoom and social media. Here, Rodriguez recounts a recent day and reflects on her experiences supporting virtual events and maintaining a work/life balance while at home during the pandemic.

The Trinity College Board of Trustees has approved the promotions to the position of associate professor with tenure of Ethan Rutherford, in English; Per Sebastian Skardal, in mathematics; and Reo Matsuzaki, in political science.

Kabelo Motsoeneng ’20, an English and human rights double major at Trinity College, has spent 18 months working on his first full-length novel. Motsoeneng integrated the revisions for his novel into his semester-long senior thesis project.