Congratulations to members of the Trinity community who were recognized with 2024 Arbor Awards, U of T’s highest honour for volunteer service in January: Shannon R. Garden-Smith, Matthew E. Kieswetter, Ross McKean, E. Jane Speakman, and C. Ann Wainwright. View pictures of the event here and read the awards citations here. MICHAEL ADRIAN SMITH ’87 has joined…… Continue Reading
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Five Questions with Rev. Dr. Heather McCance
Trinity Divinity alum Rev. Dr. Heather McCance, MDiv ’96, Th.M ’10, started as President of the Atlantic School of Theology (AST) in 2023. Now that she has had a year to settle in, we reached out to get her thoughts on AST, her role, and on the church. Prior to arriving at AST, Heather split…… Continue Reading
Five Questions with Jen Gommerman ’93, Chair of Immunology
Professor Jen Gommerman (’93; ’98 PhD, U of T) is Chair of the Department of Immunology at U of T. She currently holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Tissue-Specific Immunity; serves as Immunology Pillar co-lead for CoVaRR-Net, a pan-Canadian consortium studying variants of concern; and is the co-director of HI3, a consortium…… Continue Reading
Book It! December 2024
MALCOLM GLADWELL ’84 Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light. Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to…… Continue Reading
Class Notes December 2024
NEWS JUSTICE ROBIN A. BELLOWS ’03 has been appointed as a Judge of the Superior Court of Justice in Parry Sound, Ontario. MARC BHALLA ’99 has been named Vice President of Policy, Programs & Dispute Resolution of the Condominium Authority of Ontario. CELINE COLLIS ’15 was called to the bar in her homeland of Bermuda…… Continue Reading
Honouring a Changemaker: Dr. Alexander Augusta
On November 7, 2024, members of the Trinity community and special guests came together to celebrate the unveiling of a portrait of Dr. Alexander Augusta at Trinity College. Alexander Augusta completed his medical degree at Trinity Medical College in 1860 and became the first Black medical student in Canada West. But his story wasn’t known…… Continue Reading
Learning sustainability first-hand at The New Farm
On October 1, students in the Butterfield Environment and Sustainability Stream of the Margaret MacMillan Trinity One Program, along with Trinity staff, alumni and Provost Terpstra, woke early to venture north to The New Farm—the first vegetable farm in Canada to be regenerative organic-certified, the highest standard for sustainability, social impact, and animal welfare in…… Continue Reading