In early January a group made up of Bryn Mawr alumnae and parents of Bryn Mawr students met in Singapore as founding members of the College’s International Advisory Council. The 11 council members in Singapore were joined by three additional council members via video conference.
The council is being … Read more»
The work of Professor and Chair of Anthropology Richard Davis was featured in a recent issue of Science, the magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In an article titled “The Peopling of the Aleutians,” Davis is among the archaeologists cited in a summary of recent research into … Read more»
Research by Bryn Mawr Professor of Psychology Clark McCauley, whose new book Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us was published in March, is cited in a Jan. 23 New York Times article on the role the emotion of disgust plays in survival.
McCauley is the Rachel C. Hale Professor … Read more»
Brian Wallace was appointed the Bryn Mawr College Curator and Academic Liaison for Art and Artifacts in December. Wallace is charged with developing the use and interpretation of the College’s Art and Artifact Collections.
Prior to arriving at Bryn Mawr, Wallace was curator at the Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz … Read more»
A quote from Chief Enrollment and Communications Officer Jenny Rickard opens the Jan. 25 post “An Indian Student’s Guide to the SAT and ACT Admissions Exams” in The New York Times’ “The Choice on India Ink” blog.
From the post:
The key for most international applicants is less about test scores than … Read more»
Bryn Mawr Economics Professor David Ross recently testified before officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Safety Administration arguing in favor of increased fuel-efficiency standards for U.S. cars and trucks.
In his remarks, Ross argued that the new standards, which would start to take effect in 2017, are … Read more»
As the spring semester gets underway, we take our annual look back on the year that was. 2011 offered a high-profile Flexner Lectureship with Judith Butler, the awarding of the Katharine Hepburn and M. Carey Thomas medals, the launch of the Women in Public Service Project, a wealth of laurels, and plenty of fun. Read more»
More than 40 students gave up their last week of winter break to take part in the Bryn Mawr College Certificate in Management workshop last week. But you won’t hear them complaining about the loss of downtime.
“This has been a hugely enriching experience,” says Hosanna Odhner ’13. “One thing I’ve … Read more»
The Main Line Martin Luther King Association will hold its annual Sunday celebration of the legacy of Dr. Marin Luther King Jr. in conjunction with Bryn Mawr College on Sunday, Jan. 15, beginning at 3 p.m. The event will take place in Goodhart Hall’s McPherson Auditorium, on the Bryn Mawr campus
Several changes have occurred on Bryn Mawr’s campus over the break, but none will be as profound as the consolidation of many of the offices that serve students into the revamped Eugenia Chase Guild Hall.
The recent excavation work of Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archeology Peter Magee and a group of Bryn Mawr students may lead to a better understanding of the expansion of human settlements during the Ancient Near East Bronze Age, according to an article in The National, an English-language … Read more»
During the colloquium’s second panel discussion, Vice Admiral Carol Pottinger spoke about her struggle with self-confidence early on in her career and marked this issue as a great challenge to her ability to succeed as a young woman. Once Pottinger gave voice to this issue, her fellow panelists and later speakers echoed her story. Women’s self-confidence, or lack thereof, became a dominant point of discussion at the colloquium.
Countless outstanding and inspirational female public servants were in attendance at the Women in Public Service Project’s colloquium on December 15th, many of whom are graduates of the sister colleges: Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Smith, Barnard, and Mount Holyoke. I was lucky to be able to speak and correspond with Bryn Mawr alumnae Inyang Ebong-Harstrup ‘82 and Amanda Glendinning ‘05 about their impressions and thoughts regarding the content of the colloquium.
Bryn Mawr Professor of Psychology Clark McCauley, whose new book Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us was published in March, is quoted in an Associated Press article on the North Korean people’s reaction to the death of dictator Kim Jong Il.
“‘Bad things have happened to North Koreans who … Read more»
Many of the world’s most influential leaders—including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Legarde—gathered in Washington, D.C., last week for a colloquium that marked the official launch of The Women in Public Service Project, a joint initiative founded by the State Department and the Sister Schools (Bryn Mawr, Barnard, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and Wellesley). Read more »
Why are the remaining Seven Sisters women’s colleges the right institutions for the State Department to collaborate with on the Women in Public Service Project? Aside from the obvious answer that the student bodies at these institutions are largely female, there is something more to why Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Smith, Barnard and Mt. Holyoke colleges were chosen to carry out the project’s vision of “a world in which political and civic leadership is at least 50 percent female by 2050.”
Much of the Women in Public Service Project’s Colloquium was focused on identifying and discussing strategies that will better enable young women to climb to positions of influence in public service. Conference speakers offered a great deal of advice to young women in the audience. Here are the five recommendations guest blogger Sara Alcid heard repeated most opften.
A videocast of the speakers at the Women in Public Service Project has been posted on the U.S. State Department’s streaming server. Don’t miss the introduction of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright by Bryn Mawr senior Ntshadi Mofokeng!
“Finding a mentor is invaluable for young women to succeed,” said Valerie Jarrett, the Obama administration’s senior adviser and assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs, at the Women in Public Service Project’s inaugural colloquium on Thursday, Dec. 15. The WPSP’s goal is to increase women’s representation … Read more»
The first week of December brought talk of Bryn Mawr to the viewers of at least two high-profile TV series.
On the Dec. 4 episode of Boardwalk Empire, HBO’s highly acclaimed gangster drama about Prohibition-era Atlantic City, racketeer Jimmy Darmody, in a flashback to his days as a student at Princeton, … Read more»
Stress was successfully busted on Tuesday when Bryn Mawr College President Jane McAuliffe welcomed students to Pen y Groes, the presidential residence, for an exam-week study break featuring cookies, cider, and holiday cheer. About 40 students stopped by between 5:30 and 7 p.m., the President’s Office reports; most popped in … Read more»
As the U.S. State Department and the Seven Sisters Colleges host the inaugural colloquium of the Women in Public Service Project, a post by Bryn Mawr President Jane McAuliffe in The Chronicle of Higher Education explains why an initiative that aims to prepare women for leadership roles in government and … Read more»
More than 150 alumnae/i and friends of Bryn Mawr joined a number of former and current Bryn Mawr Posse Scholars, Massachusetts Governor Duval Patrick and First Lady Diane Patrick, college officials including President Jane McAuliffe and former President Nancy Vickers, and Posse Foundation representatives at Boston’s Hampshire House on Nov. … Read more»
Bryn Mawr College hosted a live stream of TEDxWomen on Thursday, Dec. 1.
The all-day event took place in Goodhart Hall’s McPherson Auditorium and was organized by Bryn Mawr College’s Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center, the Self-Government Association, and the College Communications Office.
See photos from the event in the … Read more»
On Thursday, Dec. 15, Bryn Mawr College will join other top U.S. women’s colleges and leaders from throughout the world for the inaugural colloquium of The Women in Public Service Project (TWPSP). The colloquium will highlight the urgent need for women in public service and the resources they need to … Read more»
By Maddy Court ’12 and Mary Zaborskis ’12
Originally published in the college news
“I swim every day, I drink good Italian wines, I have a network of friends, many of whom are not in the academy. I like old movies—melodramas and film noir—and I travel,” says one Judith Butler, nonchalantly … Read more»
For many at Bryn Mawr, Judith Butler’s Flexner Lectureship was a prime example of the excitement of belonging to a community focused on intellectual enterprise. The eminent philosopher and critical theorist drew overflow crowds to her public lectures, engaged in discussion with more than 80 scholars from around the region, and spent time with scores of Tri-College students, both in and out of the classroom … Read more»
Professor of Education and Coordinator of The Andrew W. Mellon Teaching and Learning Institute Alison Cook-Sather was recently named the Jean Rudduck Visiting Scholar at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, England.
This position is named in honor of Jean Rudduck (1937-2007), the University of Cambridge’s first female professor of education and … Read more»
An increase in funding is among several improvements to be made to the Hanna Holborn Gray Fellowship program, which supports undergraduate students’ independent research projects in humanities and the humanistic social sciences during the summer months.
Bryn Mawr President Jane McAuliffe joined Muslim and Catholic scholars, intellectuals, and clerics from 18 Islamic and non-Islamic countries in a three-day interfaith forum focused on the theme “Reason, Faith and the Human Person.” Read more »
If you think of Bryn Mawrters as a bookish lot, these photos of the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Theater Program’s November production of Gertrude Stein’s experimental play Listen to Me are unlikely to challenge your stereotype. Directed by Theater Program Director Mark Lord, fifteen student actors cavorted, orated and philosophized through Maiko … Read more»
Although both of her parents are physicians, Nina R. W. Cohen ’12 of Newton, Mass., who was recently named a 2012 Rhodes Scholar, has had a very specific career outside of medicine in mind for as long as she can remember.
“From early childhood I’ve dreamed of being a judge,” says … Read more»
Nina R. W. Cohen ’12 is one of 32 outstanding students to be named a member of the American Rhodes Scholar Class of 2012.
Cohen and her fellow Rhodes Scholars were selected from a pool of 830 candidates who had been nominated by their colleges and universities.
From the Rhodes website…
“Nina R.W. … Read more»
Bryn Mawr College will be hosting a live stream of TEDxWomen on Thursday, Dec. 1.
The all-day event will take place in Goodhart Hall’s McPherson Auditorium. Registration information can be found on the TEDxBrynMawrCollegeWomen website.
TEDxBrynMawrCollegeWomen is being organized by Bryn Mawr College’s Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center, the Self-Government Association, and … Read more»
During her three-week residency on campus as the 2011 Mary Flexner Lecturer, eminent philosopher and social critic Judith Butler has been thoroughly integrated into Bryn Mawr’s campus life. Butler has made appearances not only at her three public lectures, but in faculty seminars following the lectures, several classes associated with the … Read more»
When it comes to getting a first job out of college, gaining admission to graduate school, or generally preparing to meet life’s challenges, graduates of residential liberal-arts colleges like Bryn Mawr give their college experience higher marks than do graduates of private or public universities, according to a new national … Read more»
Two Bryn Mawr students will have the chance to join Geology Lecturer Lynne Elkins on a trip to the waters north of Iceland next summer as Elkins and her fellow researchers try to better understand volcanic activity in the area. The researchers plan to explore the mechanisms driving the production … Read more»
The Bryn Mawr-Gladwyne Patch, a hyperlocal online news source, used the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Horned Toads’ recent match against Ursinus to explain the game of rugby. The article features a photo slide show of the two teams in action.
Here’s one of the images (Courtesy of Patch.com). To see the full slide … Read more»
Professor and William R. Kenan Jr. Chair in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology James Wright, Ph.D. ‘78, has been appointed to a five-year term as the director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, beginning in July 2012.
Wright, whose research focuses on the pre- and … Read more»
The Theater Program of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges will present Gertrude Stein’s “Listen to Me” as directed by Mark Lord and designed by Maiko Matsushime Nov. 11-13 and 17-19 at 7:30 p.m. Audience members are urged to wear comfortable shoes, expect the unexpected and to make reservations in … Read more»
On Thursday, Oct. 27, more than 100 members of the Class of 2012 donated to the Senior Gift at its kick-off event. This record-breaking effort amounted to over 30 percent participation from the class, which aims to best the Class of 2011’s 84 percent participation by Convocation on May 17, … Read more»
A panel of higher-education experts including Bryn Mawr President Jane McAuliffe has issued a report calling for increased and more fully engaged collaboration between U.S. colleges and universities and institutions abroad.
Titled Strength through Global Leadership and Engagement: U.S. Higher Education in the 21st Century, the report was commissioned by the board of … Read more»
Amelia Lee Zhi Yi ’13 captured some amazing photos of Lantern Night that she’s allowed us to share.
As has been the tradition since 1906, the class of 2015 received its lanterns in the Thomas Hall Cloister. Lantern Night marked the first time the Cloister was open to the public since … Read more»
CNN Money asked Bryn Mawr Assistant Professor Jonathan Lanning and several other economics professors whether, on the basis of their campaign positions, the current crop of presidential hopefuls would get a passing grade in an Econ 101 class.
While the candidates’ rhetoric may make for good soundbites, their analysis and understanding … Read more»
In 2008, Millennials—those born between 1981 and 1993—voted for President Barack Obama by a ratio of two to one in his race for the White House against Senator John McCain.
According to this NPR Morning Edition story, a new report by the Pew Research Center shows that support of Obama among … Read more»
Darra Goldstein, a pioneer in the field of food studies, will deliver the keynote address at “Feed Your Head: Food as Material and Metaphor,” the eighth biennial graduate-student symposium organized and hosted by graduate students in Bryn Mawr College’s interdisciplinary Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art.
Scheduled for … Read more»
The Women in Public Service Project, a partnership to advance women’s leadership in politics and governance worldwide, will host its inaugural colloquium next month at the U.S. Department of State.
Since the initiative was announced last spring, representatives from Bryn Mawr and sister institutions—Barnard, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Wellesley—have worked with … Read more»
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Five of the most important short-fiction writers working today—Frank O’Connor Award finalist Robin Black and four of the New Yorker’s “20 Under 40″ honorees, Chris Adrian, David Bezmozgis, Rivka Galchen and Karen Russell—discussed the place of the short story in America, as well as their work … Read more»
A 12-person delegation of administrators and faculty members from several of India’s top institutions of higher education visited Bryn Mawr’s campus on Friday, Oct. 21, as part of a two-week tour of colleges and universities in the Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City metropolitan areas.
At Bryn Mawr, the delegation … Read more»
Forty-five students spent the last few days of fall break learning how to take the big ideas they’ve developed as Bryn Mawr students and turn them into viable business opportunities.
The students were taking part in the second in an ongoing series of workshops that expose students to practical business and … Read more»
