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Commencement 2022

“Aim for building bridges instead of creating chasms,” said painter and poet Raja Changez Sultan ’72 to the graduates of the Trinity College Class of 2022 during his Commencement address on Sunday, May 22. “The diversity that you find around the globe is our collective strength.”

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Commencement 2020

“Success belongs to us because when it mattered most, we did it as a community,” class speaker Matthew Rivera ’20 said to fellow members of the Trinity College Class of 2020 during their long-awaited Commencement, held more than two years after the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted their senior year.

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Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2022

Trinity College Director of Athletics Drew Galbraith recently announced the 2022 Trinity Athletics Hall of Fame class.

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Five named to Trinity College’s Board of Trustees

President Joanne Berger-Sweeney has announced the appointment of five new trustees to the Trinity College Board of Trustees.

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Bicentennial Celebration Kicks off in May 2023

Join us next spring when we kick off our yearlong bicentennial celebration. On Charter Day 2022, President Joanne Berger-Sweeney announced the celebration’s theme, Trinity at 200: Committed to the Future since 1823.

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Refreshing our Visual Identity

As part of a branding initiative led by the firm Ologie, the college’s visual identity has been updated to include a new wordmark, academic shield logo, and designs inspired by the shapes and forms of campus architecture, most notably the Long Walk.

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Faculty Fulbright

Trinity College Professor of Biology Kent D. Dunlap has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award to teach in Uruguay.

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Goldwater Scholars

Trinity College students Skye Embray ’23 and Nicole Massa ’23 have been selected to receive Barry Goldwater Scholarships from a pool of more than 5,000 applicants from across the country.

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Tenure, Promotions

The Trinity College Board of Trustees voted in April 2022 to award tenure and to promote to the rank of associate professor to eight faculty members.

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New Dean in Admissions

Matthew S. Hyde became Trinity College’s dean of admissions and financial aid on July 1, 2022.

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Pulitzer Finalist

Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature Francisco Goldman’s latest novel, the semi-autobiographical Monkey Boy, recently was named a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for fiction.

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Grant for First Book

Trinity College Assistant Professor of American Studies Juliet Nebolon recently was awarded a 2022 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

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Yenching Scholars

Two Trinity College alumni—Stanislav Knezevic ’21 and Shawn Olstein ’22—recently were named recipients of a Yenching Scholarship from the Yenching Academy of Peking University in China to pursue an interdisciplinary master’s degree in China studies.