Davarian L. Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, has received a two-year grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for his Smart Cities Research Lab.
This award will provide educational and research support for communities examining the financial relationships between campuses and their host communities through the lab’s Payment in Lieu of Taxes and Wealth Redistribution Analysis Project.
It also helps to support collaboration with the University of Minnesota on The Renewal Project, which provides archival and pedagogical training to project teams at nine institutions working on archival research, curriculum development, and commemorative placemaking.
Funding will support travel, research, training, and workshops in communities both nationally and internationally. In addition, it will support undergraduate fellowships for case studies, program management, and event scheduling.
Housed within the Trinity Social Justice Institute, the Smart Cities Research Lab studies and consults on best practices for building equitable urban communities. Baldwin, author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities, founded the lab in 2021.
Read more about Baldwin’s work with the Smart Cities Research Lab in this story from earlier in the year.
The Trinity College Board of Trustees voted recently to award tenure to seven members of the faculty—six of whom also were promoted to associate professor. Additionally, six retiring faculty members were awarded emeriti status.
Juan Rayo ’27 has been named to the National Student Voting Honor Roll for his leadership in Trinity’s ongoing nonpartisan campus civic engagement initiative, TrinVotes!
Trinity College President Dan Lugo has announced the reorganization of the College’s Executive Leadership Team, including promotions for three of its members, effective immediately.
Trinity has once again made Architectural Digest’s annual list of the most beautiful college campuses in America. The publication takes into consideration both architectural legacy and setting, and singled out Trinity for its picturesque Long Walk, landscape design, and Chapel.
