Joanne Berger-Sweeney, PhD, has been appointed the first African-American and first female president of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Berger-Sweeney will be the school’s 22nd president. She currently serves as Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Berger-Sweeney holds a doctorate in neurotoxicology from the Johns Hopkins School […]
For many years, the distinction of being Yale University’s first Black student went to Edward Bouchet, an 1874 graduate. His portrait hung in the Yale library for over a century and the university named several fellowships and symposiums after him. Bouchet was also the first African-American to earn a PhD (at Yale in 1876) and […]
