1. Joanne E Berger-Sweeney was born on September 21,1958 and is an American neuroscientist and the 22nd president of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
22 Facts About Joanne Berger-Sweeney
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney is the first African-American and the first woman to serve in the position.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney was born on September 21,1958, in Los Angeles.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney's father earned his law degree at Howard University, finishing second in his class.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney's mother was executive director of the Los Angeles Girl Scouts Council and was the first African-American woman to lead a Girl Scouts Council in a major metropolitan area.
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Later in life, at her first commencement ceremony at Trinity College, Joanne Berger-Sweeney asked civil rights leader and former Holman UMC pastor Rev James Morris Lawson Jr.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney attended Wellesley College, where she earned an undergraduate degree in psychobiology in 1979.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney received a Masters of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney did proof-of-concept work on galantamine, showing that the drug reversed memory deficits in mice.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney's work served as the foundation for clinical trials by Janssen Pharmaceutica, culminating in the drug's approval by the FDA.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney completed her postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Health in Paris, France.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney returned to Wellesley in 1991 to teach and conduct research.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney was the first African-American woman at Wellesley to become a full professor and was named the Allene Lummis Russell Professor in Neuroscience.
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In 2010, Joanne Berger-Sweeney became Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, where she served until 2014, during which time she strengthened the school's faculty and interdisciplinary programs.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney helped create the Center for Race and Democracy at Tufts, which studies the impact of race on individuals' lives.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney led the creation of the Bridge to Liberal Arts Success at Tufts program that supports college students from underserved high schools.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney has overseen several important initiatives at Trinity, including a new strategic plan that will guide the college through 2023; a new mentoring program for incoming students ; a new campus initiative to promote respect and inclusion; and an expansion into downtown Hartford.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney serves as a Director at Hartford Hospital, Inc and Hartford HealthCare Corporation.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney is a member of the board of trustees of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney has received grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, as well as from private foundations, for her work on the neurobiology of learning and memory, with applications to neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney has authored or co-authored more than 60 scientific articles.
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney has received a number of awards for her scientific work, including the following:.