Bryn Mawr Now

Staff members honored at picnic

Posted July 1, 2009

photo of Jane McAuliffe and Nell Anderson President Jane McAuliffe and Human Resources Director Joe Bucci presented the 2009 McPherson Awards for Excellence and Service to staff members Nell Anderson, Beth Iushewitz, and Bryn Thompson at the staff-appreciation picnic. Read more»

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted July 1, 2009

photo of Jane McAuliffe Bryn Mawr President Jane McAuliffe was quoted by the Philadelphia Inquirer in an article about area colleges and universities that have signed up to participate in the VA's Yellow Ribbon Program.

President Obama nominates Karen Kornbluh ’84 to key post

Posted June 26, 2009

photo of Karen Kornbluh President Barack Obama has asked Karen Kornbluh ’84 to serve as the United States' permanent representative to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the White House announced yesterday. The OECD's mission is to bring together governments of countries committed to democracy and the market economy to "compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and coordinate domestic and international policies" on ... Read more »

The 10! Show

Posted June 24, 2009

photo of Gillian Grassie Harp-playing indie singer-songwriter Gillian Grassie ’09, who was recently profiled by Bryn Mawr Now when she won a Watson Fellowship, performed on Philadelphia NBC-10's 10! Show. Hear more of Grassie's music on her MySpace page.

The New York Times

Posted June 22, 2009
As part of an article on the smaller steps colleges are taking to save money, The New York Times reports on a "virtual swim meet," between Bryn Mawr and Dickinson College, in which each team swam in their home pools and compared times to determine the winners.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted June 22, 2009
Neil Patrick Harris and Amy Sedaris are among the stars of the upcoming film The Best and the Brightest, which has been filming on Bryn Mawr's campus and at other Philadelphia-area locations, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted June 22, 2009

photo of Ed Rendell Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell spoke at a rally at Bryn Mawr College in support of expanded autism services and warned that proposed budget cuts would reverse years of progress in autism treatment.

Bryn Mawr College Grants Veterans the Maximum Financial Benefit Possible as It Joins the VA’s Yellow Ribbon Program

Posted June 17, 2009
Bryn Mawr College, continuing its tradition of developing strong women leaders, will participate in the Department of Veteran’s Affairs Yellow Ribbon Program at the maximum level, announced Bryn Mawr President Jane McAuliffe. “We talk about Bryn Mawr students having a purposeful vision of their lives and a desire to make meaningful contributions to the world. Those characteristics are embodied by our veterans,” says McAuliffe. The Yellow Ribbon ... Read more »

Women’s Media Center

Posted June 11, 2009
Shazia Z. Rafi '79, of Pakistan, writes about her life since graduating from Bryn Mawr, the lives of her Middle East and West Asian classmates and President Obama's Cairo speech. "As I boarded the Paoli Local from Philadelphia to head down to our 30th reunion at Bryn Mawr College, the lush greenery of the Main Line seemed such sharp contrast to our lives since that rainy graduation ... Read more »

Big Think

Posted June 10, 2009
Former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Alice Rivlin '52 talks to Big Think about the economy.

GSSWSR Researchers Look at Race and Welfare Reform

Posted June 9, 2009

photo of GSSWSR grad student Bryn Mawr’s Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research’s Sanford Schram, GSSWSR doctoral student Linda Houser and colleagues from the University of Minnesota and University of Kentucky have co-authored the feature article for the June issue of American Sociological Review. Read more»

Bryn Mawr adopts new testing policy promoting greater flexibility and emphasis on subject mastery

Posted June 3, 2009
Bryn Mawr College, hard on the heels of an admissions year bringing a record number of applications, has completed a review of what enables success in its highly selective undergraduate college. Finding that subject-oriented tests are often more informative than other standardized tests at Bryn Mawr, it has opened more options for tests submitted with applications. Read more »

Geologist Arlo Weil wins grant to study curved mountain ranges

Posted June 3, 2009

photo of professor in a mountain landscape Associate Professor Arlo Weil, chair of the geology department, and colleagues from the University of Victoria and Spain’s Salamanca University recently received an International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) award to study curved mountain ranges around the world. Read more»

Celebrating the Teaching and Learning Initiative

Posted June 2, 2009

photo of Allison Cook-Sather Students, faculty, and staff from across the college filled Dalton Hall’s largest classroom to capacity at the end of the spring semester in celebration of their experiences in the Teaching and Learning Initiative. Read more»

Bryn Mawr President Receives honorary degree at The College of St. Catherine

Posted May 29, 2009

photo of McAuliffe The College of St. Catherine conferred an honorary doctorate in humane letters on Bryn Mawr President Jane McAuliffe when she delivered the College's commencement address on Saturday, May 23. Citing the diversity of religious views at the Catholic women's college, McAuliffe urged graduates to contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of other religious traditions. "You know, from the inside, that religions are not monolithic, they don’t ... Read more »

Sarah Khasawinah ’09 wins NSF Graduate Fellowship

Posted May 20, 2009

photo of Sarah Khasawinah Sarah Khasawinah ’09, a double major in mathematics and English who spearheaded a $10,000 fundraising campaign to memorialize the victims of the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, has received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The fellowship, which includes a three-year annual stipend of $30,000 in addition to a $10,500 annual tuition benefit, is offered to outstanding students in the sciences, mathematics, and ... Read more »

Huffington Post

Posted May 18, 2009
In this humorous piece, Creative Writing Lecturer Daniel Torday wonders if he'll have to wait till pigs fly for a shot at a Supreme Court seat.

2009 academic awards to Bryn Mawr students

Posted May 15, 2009
At May Day Convocation on Sunday, May 5, President Jane D. McAuliffe announced the winners of a host of awards given to Bryn Mawr students. The list of more than 50 awards and scholarships includes honors bestowed by Bryn Mawr as well as those given by outside organizations. The complete list of awards is posted here. Read More »

USA Today

Posted May 13, 2009
GSSWSR Associate Professor Jim Martin, an expert in military culture, is named as a source for this article about the trimming of the National Guard.

Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Names New Dean

Posted May 13, 2009

photo of Darlyne Bailey Darlyne Bailey has been appointed dean and professor of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and special assistant to the president for community partnerships at Bryn Mawr College. Bailey will join the College Aug. 1. She is currently the assistant to the president at the University of Minnesota and a professor in the School of Social Work and the department of work and human-resource ... Read more »

Junior Nicole Gervasio wins Beinecke Scholarship to fund graduate study

Posted May 13, 2009

photo of Nicole Gervasio Nicole Gervasio ’10, a native of Trenton, N.J., who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in literary studies after completing her bachelor's degree at Bryn Mawr, is one of 21 students nationwide who have been awarded the 2009 Beinecke Scholarship. The scholarship, which is given to "young men and women of exceptional promise" to encourage and enable them to "pursue opportunities available to them and to be ... Read more »

Cnet.com

Posted April 30, 2009
Maxine Savitz '58 is a member of President Obama's newly formed Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, reports cnet.com.

Information about swine flu for the Bryn Mawr community

Posted April 30, 2009
There have been no reported cases of swine flu at Bryn Mawr College at this time. The College is closely monitoring this situation and will update the campus community whenever warranted.

May Day to be celebrated Sunday, May 3

Posted April 29, 2009

photo of students celebrating Bryn Mawr College will host its annual May Day activities, a campus tradition since 1900, on Sunday, May 3, from dawn until late evening. Many of the day's events, including Maypole dancing, hoop race, concerts, plays and colorful Renaissance pageantry, are free and open to the public. The celebration begins at 5:45 a.m., when sophomores awaken seniors with flower baskets and song. A mix of old ... Read more »

Anthro-linguistics major Maureen Hoffman ’09 chooses between Fulbright and JET Program

Posted April 27, 2009

photo of Maureen Hoffman One day last month, Maureen Hoffmann was thrilled to learn that she had been selected for a prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Taiwan. Later the same day, she was informed that she had also been accepted into the Japan Exchange and Teaching program (JET), a language-teaching exchange sponsored by the Japanese government. For Hoffmann, the decision between the two coveted positions represented a ... Read more »

Conference looks at “Telemedicine: Future Directions in Service Delivery”

Posted April 23, 2009
The Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center, the Bryn Mawr and Haverford Pre-Health Programs, and the Bryn Mawr Post-Baccalaureate Program are co-sponsoring the conference “Telemedicine: Future Directions in Service Delivery” from 1-5 p.m. on Friday, April 24, in room 224 of Thomas Great Hall. This conference has been designed to provide pre-health and postbac students, medical students, and medical and public health professionals with an overview of this exciting new field, which integrates new video ... Read more »

National Public Radio

Posted April 23, 2009
While he's got plenty of charisma, South Africa's presumptive next president is going to need "an institutional management culture" to make sure the details of government are taken care of, Political Science Professor Michael H. Allen tells National Public Radio.

Serve America Act Creates New Opportunities for Students

Posted April 22, 2009
Bryn Mawr students and graduating seniors interested in working for nonprofits dedicated to community service got some great news from the federal government yesterday with the passage of the Senator Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. The most sweeping expansion of the nation’s service programs since the early 1960s, the act will expand the ranks of AmeriCorps to bring federal volunteer programs under a single umbrella and ... Read more »

Activist, Journalist, and Author Helen Zia to lecture on an America where “minorities” are the majority

Posted April 20, 2009

photo of Helen Zia Asian-American activist, author, and journalist Helen Zia will be speaking at Bryn Mawr’s Dalton Hall, room 300, on Wednesday, April 22, at 7:30 pm. Her subject for the evening will be “Transcending 'Evil' in the Age of Obama: Notes of an Asian American Feminist.” “As this nation rapidly moves toward a 'minority majority' and emergent groups move out of invisibility in our workplaces, communities and even the White ... Read more »

Bryn Mawr Rowing Coach Carol Bower honored by Yale

Posted April 20, 2009

photo of Bower with megaphone The Yale women's crew program honored Bryn Mawr Rowing Coach Carol Bower, the Yale program's first women's novice coach, by dedicating a shell in her name this weekend. Read the Yale press release here. Bower was a member of the 1984 gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic women’s eight rowing team. She recalled her Olympic experience in a September Q&A.

This Boy’s Life author Tobias Wolff to read April 15

Posted April 14, 2009

photo of Tobias Wolff Author Tobias Wolff, whose memoir This Boy’s Life was turned into the 1993 film of the same name, will give a reading at Bryn Mawr College on Wednesday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Thomas Great Hall. Free and open to the public, Wolff’s appearance is part of the College’s yearlong Creative Writing Program Reading Series, which features award-winning poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, and playwrights. For further information, ... Read more »

Graduate Group symposium to focus on death and afterlife in the ancient world

Posted April 14, 2009

symposium posteer Three experts on the grim reaper—or his analogues in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece—will meet at Bryn Mawr on Friday, April 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Room B21 of Carpenter Library to explore beliefs, practices, and artistic production that death inspired in those three ancient societies. "The Restless Dead and the Perfect Tomb: A Symposium" features three half-hour lectures, followed by a round-table discussion among the participants. ... Read more »

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter to Give Convocation Address

Posted April 13, 2009

photo of Michael Nutter Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter will give the commencement convocation address to Bryn Mawr College’s graduating class on Saturday, May 16, at 2:30 p.m. on Merion Green. “Mayor Nutter has been an important advocate for the many institutions of higher education in the Philadelphia region. He has made increasing the college-degree attainment rate and reducing the high-school drop out rate of city residents a top priority. His efforts ... Read more »

The Chicago Tribune

Posted April 13, 2009
The Chicago Tribune is one of several media outlets reporting the nomination of A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D. '76, as deputy director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Speakers to focus on reproductive rights at home, abroad

Posted April 10, 2009

photo of speaker Veena Siddharth '84 On Tuesday, April 14, at 7 p.m. the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center and the Department of Anthropology will sponsor "Working for Reproductive Rights in the Obama Era: At Home and Abroad."  The program, to take place in the Ely Room at Wyndham Alumnae House, features Dayle Steinberg, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood-Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Veena Siddharth ’84, vice president of international programs for Planned Parenthood. ... Read more »

Filmic find from the archives to be shown Monday

Posted April 7, 2009

Filmic find from the archives to be shown Monday Next Monday, April 13, the Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library will sponsor the world premiere of a film that was completed 37 years ago but never released. Eight of the film's subjects— Bryn Mawr professors who were interviewed on campus in the spring of 1972—will attend the screening and an informal conversation to follow, in Wyndham House's Ely Room from 7 to 9 p.m. ... Read more»

Bryn Mawr in the Media: The New York Times

Posted April 6, 2009
A New York Times article about furniture and interior designer Lockwood De Forest and an upcoming sale of a collection of his work mentions that his artistry is on display in Bryn Mawr's Thomas Great Hall, for which he designed much of the woodwork.

Bryn Mawr students join event with British Prime Minister, Madeline Albright, Obama advisor Paul Volker

Posted April 3, 2009

photo of Gordon Brown Twelve Bryn Mawr students joined President Jane McAuliffe last week for a special invitation-only panel discussion at New York University featuring British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former Secretary of State Madeline Albright and two-time Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker, who currently chairs President Barrack Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board ... Read more »

Bryn Mawr in the Media: Nature Geoscience

Posted April 3, 2009

photo of Arlo Weil January 2009 marked the first anniversary of the launch of Nature Geoscience. To celebrate, the journal has put together its favorite articles from the first 12 issues. Among the articles chosen is Self-subduction of the Pangaean global plate, which was co-authored by Geology Chair Arlo Weil. Weil's research was also featured in a September Bryn Mawr Now article , and during fall break he ... Read more »

Poet Marilyn Hacker to read at Bryn Mawr

Posted April 2, 2009

photo of Marilyn Hacker by Margaretta Mitchell Poet Marilyn Hacker, whose first collection of poems, Presentation Piece, received the National Book Award in 1975, will give a reading at Bryn Mawr College on Wednesday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ely Room at Wyndham Alumnae House. Read more »

University of Iowa President Sally Mason to Speak

Posted April 1, 2009

photo of Sally Mason On Thursday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m., the “Celebrating Women Scientists as University Presidents” lecture series will continue with a talk by University of Iowa President Sally Mason. Titled "Unexpected Paths: Women in Academic Leadership," the presentation will take place in Ely Room of Bryn Mawr's Wyndham Alumnae House. The lecture is sponsored by the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center and the Center for Science in Society. Mason ... Read more »

Bryn Mawr in the Media: The New York Times

Posted March 31, 2009
In the article "For Top Colleges, Economy Has Not Reduced Interest (or Made Getting in Easier)" The New York Times notes that applications at Bryn Mawr are up.

Musician Gillian Grassie ’09 wins Watson Fellowship

Posted March 27, 2009

grassie_thumb Ask your average record-company executive about the market for a pop musician who plays the harp, and a blank stare is probably as much enthusiasm as you can expect. Luckily for singer-songwriter Gillian Grassie ’09, musicians are no longer dependent on record-company executives to introduce them to their audiences. During her years at Bryn Mawr, Grassie ... Read more »

Q&A: Geology Department’s Lynne Elkins on Volcanoes

Posted March 25, 2009
Alaska’s Mt. Redoubt has started to send plumes of ash and steam thousands of feet into the air. And if the volcano stays true to its past history, it could cause havoc for area residents for some time, affect the local oil industry, and disrupt flight paths. We asked geologist Lynne Elkins, whose research focuses on volcanoes and volcanic activity, to give us a crash ... Read more »

Berkeley dean to deliver lecture on the business lobby, citizen power, and the Internet

Posted March 25, 2009

photo of Henry Brady In the wake of Barack Obama's unprecedented use of information technology as a political organizing tool in the 2008 election, some observers have found reason to hope for a new age of digitally enhanced public participation in the political process. But can the hoped-for democratizing influence of the Internet compete with a powerful business lobby? Political scientist Henry Brady will address the question in a lecture titled ... Read more »

Conference at Bryn Mawr: “Cultural Relativism vs. Human Rights: Women’s Global Issues”

Posted March 24, 2009
When does advocating the rights of women abroad become cultural imperialism? When does respect for another culture's practices cross the line into condoning human-rights abuses? On Friday, March 27, and Saturday, March 28, academics, activists, and development professionals from around the world will gather at Bryn Mawr's Wyndham Alumnae House to address these issues at a conference titled "Cultural Relativism vs. Human Rights: Women’s Global Issues." "In the past couple of decades, we've seen an increasing embrace ... Read more »

Author of historical novel on women’s suffrage movement to speak at Bryn Mawr

Posted March 20, 2009

Historical researcher and fiction writer Virginia Ann Harris, whose coffeebreakreaders.com service is exploring new models of communication between author and reader, will speak on Tuesday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m., in the Ely Room of Bryn Mawr's Wyndham Alumnae House. Harris will discuss her book The Privilege of Voting, a novel about dramatic events in the eight years leading up to the passage of the 19th ... Read more »

Modigliani String Quartet to play at Bryn Mawr

Posted March 16, 2009

photo of quartet on a city street the Modigliani String Quartet, praised by France’s Le Progrès for its  “stunning technical expertise, outstanding ensemble, and a particularly accomplished musical identity,” will be performing works by Franz Josef Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, and Maurice Ravel at Thomas Great Hall at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 20. The event is part of the College's yearlong Performing Arts Series. The quartet was formed in 2003 by four young musicians studying at ... Read more »

Bryn Mawr in the Media: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted March 16, 2009
In an article about the increase in applications at Pennsylvania and New Jersey state schools, The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that Bryn Mawr College, unlike many of its private-college peers, has seen a six-percent increase in applications.

Senior Jackie Lang Wins Coveted Churchill Scholarship

Posted March 11, 2009

photo of Jackie Lang Mathematics major Jackie Lang ’09 is one of just 14 American students who have been chosen to spend next year at the University of Cambridge as Churchill Scholars. The scholarships, awarded annually by the Winston Churchill Foundation, fund tuition and fees as well as living and travel expenses. Selection criteria include exceptional academic achievement; a capacity to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the sciences, ... Read more »

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