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Medieval-Studies Conference to Explore Translation
Posted February 8, 2010
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 »
Saturday LSAT Administration Canceled
Posted February 5, 2010BMC in the Media: Professor’s Radio Interview, Goodhart Renovation, BHM Speaker, and a Movie Trailer
Posted February 4, 2010Princeton Professor, Pundit to Deliver Keynote Address for Black History Month
Posted February 2, 2010
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 »
Faculty Dance Concert Features Revival of 1963 Solo
Posted February 1, 2010
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»
Urban Bush Women, Acogny Celebrate Reopening of Goodhart
Posted February 1, 2010
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»
Exploring the Diversity of the Black Experience: Black History Month at Bryn Mawr
Posted January 28, 2010Rejuvenated Bryn Mawr Web site to Launch Next Week
Posted January 28, 2010
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 »
Media: Bryn Mawr Teams With Other Colleges in Developing Humanoid Robot
Posted January 25, 2010Task Forces for Haitian Earthquake Relief Created
Posted January 21, 2010Two Bryn Mawr Classicists Win Top Honors
Posted January 19, 2010
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 »
Reaching Out to Help the People of Haiti and Those Affected by the Tragedy
Posted January 14, 2010Main Line Martin Luther King Association Holds Annual Celebration
Posted January 14, 2010Understanding the Terrorist Mind
Posted January 12, 2010Bryn Mawr’s Year in Review and a Peek at What’s Ahead in 2010
Posted January 12, 2010Associate Professor of Archeology Peter Magee Peers into the Arabian Iron Age
Posted January 11, 2010SmartMoney: BMC Among Schools That Waives Application Fee Online
Posted January 11, 2010Hepburn Center and BMFI Host Film Screening, Discussion of Documentary About Mural Arts Prison Project
Posted January 4, 2010Bryn Mawr Takes Part in Online Admissions Forum
Posted December 3, 2009
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 »
A Pair of Concerts Feature Bi-College Voices
Posted December 3, 2009
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.
New Century Saxophone Quartet to Perform in Great Hall
Posted December 1, 2009
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 »
Bryn Mawr Paleoecologist Katherine Marenco talks about the Cambrian sea floor in ScienceNews
Posted November 30, 2009Slate Article Cites Psychology Professor Clark McCauley’s Research on Commuter Behavior
Posted November 30, 2009
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.
Internship Fair, Information Session Present Opportunities to Students
Posted November 30, 2009
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 Writer Julia Alvarez to Read; Musicians Will Perform Musical Setting of Her Poems by Haverford Professor
Posted November 30, 2009
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 »
Bi-College Team Wins NSF Grant to Train Science Teachers
Posted November 25, 2009
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 Joins Other Top Schools in Online Admissions Forum
Posted November 24, 2009
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 »
Owls Tip Off Basketball Season with “Fight for a Cure” Tournament
Posted November 19, 2009
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 Featured in Associated Press Article on the Posse Foundation
Posted November 17, 2009
Bryn Mawr is featured prominently in "College students find support in campus 'posses,'" an Associated Press story about the Posse Foundation. Posse has worked with the Bryn Mawr Admissions Office since 2001 to bring talented students from Boston-area public schools to Bryn Mawr. The article appeared in the print or online versions of hundreds of news outlets across the country.
Creative Writing Program Director Karl Kirchwey Featured on Poetry Daily
Posted November 17, 2009Bryn Mawr Celebrates International Education Week
Posted November 12, 2009
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»
To Inaugurate a Reconceived Goodhart, Bi-College Theater Production Probes Language, Space
Posted November 11, 2009
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 »
Bryn Mawr Professors Escort Robots to Capitol Hill
Posted November 5, 2009
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 »
Q&A with 2009 Flexner Lecturer Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Posted November 5, 2009
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 »
Award-Winning Satirist George Saunders to Read
Posted November 2, 2009
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 »
Bern Schwartz Gym to Close for Renovation Nov. 23, Temporary Fitness Center to be Set Up in Rhoads Hall
Posted November 2, 2009
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 »
Would Mad Men’s Betty Draper Have Made it at Bryn Mawr?
Posted October 23, 2009
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 »
Flexner Lectureship Brings Scholar to Discuss Early Encounters Among Muslim, Hindu, and Christian Elites
Posted October 20, 2009
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»
Hepburn Fellow Carol Rogers to Discuss her Career in Public Health, Health-care Reform
Posted October 20, 2009
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 »
Influenza Update: Handful of Mild Cases, One Student Tests Positive for H1N1
Posted October 16, 2009Darwin’s Ancestors Exhibition to Open Thursday, Oct. 22, With Lecture on Early Geneticists
Posted October 15, 2009
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 to Perform From her Work in Goodhart
Posted October 13, 2009
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 »
Get to Know Interim Dean of Admissions Chuck Rickard
Posted October 9, 2009
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»
After a Summer in the Chinese Media Spotlight,
Inventor Ying Pan ’13 Settles Into Life at Bryn Mawr
Posted October 7, 2009
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»
Administrative Reorganization Continues with New Appointments, New Web Site, and More
Posted October 6, 2009Bryn Mawr in the Media: BMC Anthropologist Contributes to Major Study of Early Hominid Skeleton
Posted October 2, 2009
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 »
Seasonal Flu Vaccine Now Available to Students
Posted October 1, 2009Bryn Mawr Students Perform at Creative Campus Festival
Posted September 30, 2009
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 »