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Joanne E. Berger-Sweeney
Joanne Berger-Sweeney is the 22nd President of Trinity College. She is the first woman as well as person of color to serve as College President, and was inaugurated on October 26th, 2014.
Berger-Sweeney received her undergraduate degree in psychobiology from Wellesley College and her M.P.H. in environmental health sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. While working on her Ph.D. in neurotoxicology from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Berger-Sweeney did the proof of concept work on Razadyne, which went on to be the second-most-used Alzheimer’s drug in the world. She completed her postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Health (INSERM) in Paris, France.
Berger-Sweeney was a member of the Wellesley College faculty, which she joined in 1991 as an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, and rose through the ranks to become the Allene Lummis Russell Professor in Neuroscience. Her teaching and research career at Wellesley spanned 13 years prior to being named associate dean in 2004. She also served as dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University from 2010 to 2014.
Since becoming president, Berger-Sweeney has overseen several major initiatives, including the completion of the college’s strategic plan, Summit, the creation of the Bantam Network mentoring program for first-year students, the launch of the Campaign for Community, the expansion of Trinity’s footprint to Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford, and founding of the Center for Caribbean Studies.