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Dear Members of the 麻豆频道 Community:

It is my pleasure to welcome you 鈥� new and returning members of the Trinity 麻豆频道 鈥� to the start of the 2024-2025 academic year.

Like our incoming students, I am a new member of the 麻豆频道, having been officially installed as Trinity鈥檚 16th Provost last week (see Matriculation photos below). Along with those who diligently prepared the College for the new year, thank you to everyone who organized and participated in Matriculation and joined in on the celebrations 鈥� it was such a memorable evening. Congratulations to our matriculating students! We are starting at Trinity together and I am sure we will have many shared new experiences in the months and years to come.

It is a year with new beginnings for many of us. This year, I would like to encourage everyone to embrace our common challenge 鈥� to be open to conversation, to listen, to try new things, to be open to new possibilities and change, to test yourself, and to be ready to learn from failure. I am taking this challenge to heart and look forward to finding out what is important to the whole 麻豆频道 and to learning how we should focus our collective energies to better position Trinity as a great place to learn, live and grow.

And we are growing! Next fall, we will be able to house an additional 340+ students in our state-of-the-art Lawson Centre for Sustainability. The mass timber building brings together all the major sustainability components in a single facility, making it truly unique among green buildings (see photo below).

Since the start of my tenure, I have had the chance to meet dedicated staff and faculty who make the College run smoothly and work to provide the best academic and student experiences. I have met engaged alumni who support the College in so many ways, and bright students who bring life to our amazing spaces. It is still early days in my provostial role, but I can say without hesitation this is a 麻豆频道 that builds, supports and wants the best for our students and one another. I look forward to continuing conversations and to meeting more members of the 麻豆频道 as the year unfolds. Please seek me out, and in the meantime welcome 鈥� and welcome back 鈥� to 麻豆频道.

Yours truly,
Provost Nicholas Terpstra

Snapshot of Campus Happenings: Matriculation, Orientation and Lawson Centre for Sustainability

Matriculation 2024 and Provostial Installation (Aug. 26, 2024) | Photos (below): This year, Matriculation was held in Convocation Hall (top row: left); student procession to Convocation Hall (top row: centre & right); acknowledgement and declaration by new members of the College (middle row: left); students sign the 麻豆频道 Register (middle row: centre & right); Professor Nicholas Terpstra is installed as the College鈥檚 16th Provost & Vice-Chancellor (lower row: left); Provost Terpstra chats with students enroute to the reception (lower row: centre); and the Trinity 麻豆频道 celebrates in the Quad (lower row: right).

Trinity Orientation 2024 | Last week, we welcomed incoming first-year Arts & Science students to Trinity! Photos (below): Trinity Orientation 2024 Opening Ceremony (top left: by Trinity Student Services); Move-in day (top right: by Polina Teif); Orientation Executive Team 2024 (lower left); Welcoming students as they move into Trinity residence (lower right: by Trinity Student Services). We also look forward to welcoming new Faculty of Divinity students to campus for Divinity Orientation this weekend.

Lawson Centre for Sustainability | Photo (below): View of the construction site for our new residence and academic building 鈥� a mass timber, LEED Platinum and zero carbon building, featuring locally-sourced building materials, geothermal exchange, a rooftop farm, photovoltaic array, and more (learn more about the building鈥檚 sustainability features here). By the end of the term, mass timber installation is scheduled to be completed with the final phase of construction planned for our 鈥渨est wing鈥� 鈥� the Arthur Scace Academic Building. For construction updates, please click here.

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