On Saturday, Feb. 20, Bryn Mawr will join the Delaware Valley Medieval Association (DMVA) in hosting a medieval-studies symposium. "Translatio and Translation in Medieval Europe," to take place in Wyndham Alumnae House from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., will examine an important aspect of medieval thought in a variety of contexts.
"The concept of translation is central to medieval Europe, ... Read more »
Melissa Harris-Lacewell will give the keynote address for Bryn Mawr College's celebration of Black History Month at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 10, in Thomas Great Hall. The lecture, "Your Black Is Not Like Mine: How Gender Complicates African American Politics," is free and open to the public.
Harris-Lacewell is an associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University. She is ... Read more »
Some of Philadelphia's top dance professionals will perform at Bryn Mawr on Friday, Feb. 5, at 8 p.m. in the College's annual Faculty Dance Concert in Pembroke Dance Studio. The concert, featuring performances by dancers and choreographers who teach at Bryn Mawr, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. Read more»
Celebrate the reopening of Goodhart Hall with an evening of powerful, compelling dance as renowned dance troupe Urban Bush Women performs with Senegalese dance legend Germaine Acogny and Pape Ibrahima Ndiaya on Saturday, Feb. 13, at 8 p.m. Read more»
Bryn Mawr College is set to launch its refreshed Web site on Tuesday, Feb. 2.
The most striking improvements for users will be seen in the design of the home page. The headers and footers have been reworked to allow for better navigation and the incorporation of social-media links. The "I am" navigation tool has been replaced with an "Information For" section in the header. The ... Read more »
Two Bryn Mawr classicists recently earned top honors from the American Philological Association (APA), the principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations. Read more »
Bryn Mawr’s Chief Enrollment and Communications Officer Jenny Rickard joined her counterparts from the University of Pennsylvania; the University of Vermont; Princeton, Marquette, and Wesleyan Universities; and Grinnell and Williams Colleges for a live webcast about the admissions process on Wednesday, Dec. 2.
The event, titled “Inside the Admissions Office,” was sponsored by WSJ On Campus, a new college resource from The Wall Street Journal and ... Read more »
In the coming week, two concerts at Haverford College will offer performances by Bryn Mawr and Haverford singers and musicians. On Sunday, Dec. 6, at 3 p.m., the Bi-College Chorale and Chamber Orchestra will perform a program titled "Grand Opera Choruses.On Thursday, December 10 at 8 p.m., the Bi-College Chamber Singers' annual holiday concert will feature the Philadelphia-area premier of David Lang's "The Little Match Girl Passion" along with their traditional sing-along carols.
Bryn Mawr College’s Performing Arts Series welcomes the New Century Saxophone Quartet to stately Thomas Great Hall on Friday, Dec. 4, at 8 p.m. as the group perform J.S. Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue” followed by contemporary counterparts, including commissions by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang and Saturday Night Live band director Lenny Pickett.
The only ensemble of its kind to ever win first prize ... Read more »
The research of Bryn Mawr Psychology Professor Clark McCauley is cited in the Slate article "Underground Psychology," about what researchers have learned about human behavior by studying the habits of mass-transit riders.
Preparing briefings for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, sequencing and analyzing DNA, and digging into a transportation archive for evidence of a community's response to the loss of a light rail line are among the many tasks Bryn Mawr students undertook during internships last summer.
Students can learn more about how to find and fund interesting and rewarding internships at an information session this ... Read more »
Celebrated Dominican-American author Julia Alvarez, best known for her fictional works How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, will be joined by chamber musicians L’Ensemble for a night of words and music at Bryn Mawr College’s Thomas Great Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m.
The evening will include a reading by Alvarez as well as a performance by L’Ensemble—soprano Ida ... Read more »
New scholarship funding is available to Bryn Mawr and Haverford science and math majors through an $897,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher/Scholar ProgramRead more»
Bryn Mawr's Chief Enrollment and Communications Officer Jenny Rickard will join her counterparts from The University of Pennsylvania; The University of Vermont; Princeton, Marquette, and Wesleyan Universities; and Grinnell and Williams Colleges for a live webcast about the admissions process on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m.
The event, titled "Inside the Admissions Office," is sponsored and will be streamed live by WSJ On Campus, a ... Read more »
The Bryn Mawr basketball team's 2009-10 season will get underway with a home game against Rosemont on Friday, Nov. 20, at 6 p.m. as part of a weekend tournament with local rivals Immaculata and Penn State-Abington.
Bryn Mawr College will celebrate the extraordinary experiences of its students who study abroad and the innumerable contributions of its international students, faculty, and staff next week with a series of events marking International Education Week, Nov. 16-20 ... Read more»
As Mark Lord planned the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Theater Program's 2009 fall production, he took into account a factor he hadn't needed to consider in previous years: a beautifully renovated, state-of-the-art theater facility. Goodhart Theater, dedicated in 1928, has always been a stunningly beautiful building, said Lord. Now it is also a great working theater, capable of transforming space in myriad ways. But Lord has chosen to inaugurate Goodhart's new teaching theater with a text that ... Read more »
Three Bryn Mawr professors and a few of their favorite mechanical teaching assistants visited Washington, D.C., recently to advise members of Congress on the use of robotics in education.
Bryn Mawr was one of a few institutions invited by the Congressional Bi-Partisan Robotics Caucus to a briefing on robots and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. As partners of the Institute for Personal Robotics in ... Read more »
2009 Mary Flexner Lecturer Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a prolific, well-regarded scholar, and an accomplished teacher. He taught economic history and comparative economic development at the Delhi School of Economics from 1983 to 1995, when he moved to Paris as directeur d’études in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. In 2002, Subrahmanyam moved to Oxford as the first holder of the newly created chair ... Read more »
MacArthur “genius” fellow and frequent New Yorker contributor George Saunders will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, in Ely Room at the Wyndham Alumnae House as part of the College's 2009-10 Creative Writing Program Reading Series.
The Creative Writing Program’s Reading Series is free and open to the public.
Best known for his satirical and often absurdly humorous fictional short stories, ... Read more »
The $7.5 million dollar renovation of Bern Schwartz Gymnasium, dubbed the Smart Women, Strong Women initiative, will soon be in full swing, and as of Monday, Nov. 23, the fitness center will be closed. The pool will be closed for all recreational swimming Friday, Dec. 4, at 2 p.m.
The former Rhoads Hall dining space will serve as a temporary fitness center and will open for ... Read more »
Widely lauded for its attention to period-specific details, the AMC television series Mad Men has had its slips. The show's "most egregious stumble" according to Benjamin Schwarz's article in the November issue of The Atlantic, involves a lead character's college career at Bryn Mawr: "By far the brainiest of the Seven Sisters—cussed, straight-backed, high-minded, and feminist (its students, so the wags said, preferred the Ph.D. to the Mrs.)—Bryn Mawr was probably the least likely ... Read more »
UCLA Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam, a noted scholar of the history of South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and European expansion, will hold the 2009 Mary Flexner Lectureship at Bryn Mawr, which has been the proving ground for some of the most influential texts published in the humanities since its inception in 1928. Read more»
On Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m., 2009 Hepburn Fellow Carol Rogers will discuss the challenges and issues that have most engaged her during her 29-year career in the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, and the insights her professional experience affords regarding the current crisis facing our nation’s health-care system.
Her talk, to take place in Wyndham's Ely Room, is co-sponsored by the Katharine Houghton ... Read more »
The new exhibition Darwin’s Ancestors: Tracing the Origins of the "Origin of Species," will open on Thursday, Oct. 22, with a lecture by Swarthmore College Professor of Biology Scott Gilbert, titled “Disagreements among Friends: How T. H. Morgan and E. B. Wilson's Agreeing to Disagree Helped Establish Genetics and the Modern Synthesis.” Read more»
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks will perform her work at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, in Bryn Mawr College’s Goodhart Theater as part of the 2009-10 Creative Writing Program Reading Series.
The Creative Writing Program’s Reading Series is free and open to the public.
Named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next New Wave,” Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most exciting and ... Read more »
Former Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jenny Rickard has become the College's chief enrollment and communications officer. While the College conducts a national search for a new dean of admissions, seasoned college-admissions professional Chuck Rickard (the two Rickards are not related) has agreed to serve as interim dean of admissions. Read more»
Inventor Ying Pan ’13 of Guangzhou, China, won a major prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair last May and found herself in the heat of the media spotlight as she prepared to leave home for her first semester at Bryn Mawr. Read more»
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Denise F. Su co-authored one of a suite of papers about Ardipithecus ramidus, the earliest known hominid skeleton, that were published today in Science. The study was featured in The New York Times, National Geographic News, the BBC News, and numerous other media outlets. Su's work focused on reconstructing the early hominid's habitat on the basis of ... Read more »
The Bryn Mawr Night Owls, a student a capella group, will be among the Bryn Mawr students performing at the WHYY Creative Campus Arts Festival on Friday, Oct. 2. The festival takes place from 5-9 p.m. at the WHYY Technology Center on Sixth Street in Philadelphia. This event is free and open to the public; refreshments will be served.
Kiran Bhardwaj ’10 and other students of ... Read more »
