For the fifth consecutive year, Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney is included on the Hartford Business Journal’s annual “Power 50” list of the most influential people in Connecticut. Berger-Sweeney has made the HBJ’s “Power 50” list every year since its inception in 2020.
HBJ says that its 2024 collection of 50 power players “highlights private- and public-sector, nonprofit, higher education, real estate, and healthcare officials in Connecticut who are not only top leaders within their organizations, but also the broader business community.” The list was chosen and ranked by the news team for the publication, which has 38,000 readers in print and 145,000 unique visitors per month to its website.
This year marks a decade of Berger-Sweeney’s leadership at Trinity and in Hartford, where she continues to build her influence, according to her profile on the “Power 50” list. Last June, Berger-Sweeney, a neuroscientist, was appointed board chair of Hartford HealthCare, the second-largest healthcare system in the state. HBJ adds, “She is also a board member of the Capital Region Development Authority, a quasi-public agency that has helped finance thousands of new apartments in downtown Hartford.”
At Trinity, Berger-Sweeney helped to launch a pilot exploration program on the use of artificial intelligence across academic disciplines and is overseeing a $30 million, 37,000-square-foot addition to Trinity’s George M. Ferris Athletic Center, the profile notes.
The HBJ also highlights other accomplishments under Berger-Sweeney’s leadership, including the expansion of Trinity’s campus footprint into downtown Hartford by establishing its Innovation Center and Liberal Arts Action Lab, and the launch an exclusive liberal arts partnership with global technology firm Infosys.
Read the full profile in the Hartford Business Journal here.
Trinity College President Daniel G. Lugo speaks with WFSB about the College’s new Hometown Hartford initiative, through which admitted students from Hartford will receive a Capital City Grant covering the full cost of tuition, room, and board.
The Hockey News follows the story of Dominique DiDia ’12 and Kim Weiss ’11, who met as Trinity teammates and now are general manager and coach of the new Professional Women’s Hockey League team in Las Vegas.
Fine Books & Collections—a quarterly magazine and daily blog about rare books, fine art, and collecting—reports on a discovery at Trinity College’s Watkinson Library of a page of previously unrecorded 15th century printing.
Trinity has announced that it will cover full tuition, housing, and meals for admitted students who live in Hartford. Trinity also is eliminating application fees and offering half-tuition grants to admitted students from Hartford County and five neighboring counties.
