Student honors and awards Elisabeth Cianciola '10,
was selected from among 515 candidates at 233 colleges and universities as a 2009 Udall Scholar by the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall Foundation. She was selected on the basis of her commitment to the environment, her leadership potential, and her academic achievement. Altogether, 80 students from 66 colleges and universities were chosen for this honor; Cianciola was one of only two from Connecticut. Matthew Phinney
has won a national Goldwater Scholarship, and Adam Wright '10 has been chosen as an honorable mention. Goldwater Scholars are chosen for their promise as scientific researchers . Phinney is a math and music major, as well as an accomplished organist, who is studying at Oxford this year. Wright is an engineering and math major who is also a member of the College's robotics team. '10
l-lallie Blejewski 'n has won the Lise Waxer Prize from the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology for the best undergraduate paper presented at their annual meeting at Yale in April. Blejewski's research was conducted last fall at Trinity's Global Learning Site in Trinidad. The prize is named for Lise Waxer, who was a member of the Trinity music faculty until her untimely death in 2002 . 4
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Retirees and those with twenty-five years of service to Trinity honored at ceremony Eight members of the faculty and staff were honored on the occasion of their retirement from Trinity at a ceremony in Hamlin Hall on April 20 , 2009. The retirees, shown above, include (front row) Professor of Political Science Clyde McKee, Professor of Languages and Culture Studies Sonia Lee, Associate Professor of Music Douglas Johnson, (top row) Associate Professor of Physical Education and Head Men's Basketball Coach Stan
Ogrodnik, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Fred Errington, and Head Rowing Coach and Assistant Professor of Physical Education Larry Gluckman. Rosalie Angelo, administrative assistant for Language and Culture Studies and the Classics Department, and Hugo Gamboa of Buildings and Grounds also retired, but were not present for the photograph. Those honored for twenty-five years of service to the College included
the following: Associate Professor of Language and Culture Studies Carol Any; Associate Professor of Physical Education, Head Women's Squash Coach, Head Women's Tennis Coach Wendy Bartlett; Charles A. Dana Professor of English Literature Barbara Benedict; Associate Professor of English Sheila Fisher; Performing Arts Center Administrative Assistant Patricia Kennedy; and Professor of Music John Platoff .
Trinity named "best value" college Trinity was named one of the country's fifty "best value" private colleges and universities by The Princeton Review, according to a report released in early January, which was published concurrently in USA Today. Among the schools in Connecticut, Trinity was joined by Yale University in the private category and by the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in the public category. The report noted that the College "is committed to making education accessible to students who are unable to meet the full educational costs." The report also found that approximately forty percent of students receive need-based financial aid in the form of grants, lowinterest loans, and campus employment.