Bryn Mawr College

Undeterred by the threat of rain, hundreds of family members and friends gathered on Merion Green on Saturday, May 18, to celebrate Bryn Mawr’s Class of 2013. To see photos from the above slide show, visit this online gallery. Prior to receiving their degrees, the Class of 2013 heard from Commencement Speaker Meenakshi Gopinath, president [...]

Each year, as the seniors are preparing to receive their diplomas, a whole other kind of preparation is going on across campus. Garden Party, a tradition first mentioned in a College publication in 1916, is a tea party held to celebrate the new graduates. It provides an opportunity to introduce their families to their professors [...]

Growth and Structure of Cities Associate Professor Ellen Stroud was recently named a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars support scholars in the humanities and social sciences in the crucial years immediately following the granting of tenure, and provide potential [...]

Bryn Mawr’s Class of 2013 is set to make its mark on the world. The 326 undergraduate members of the class and the graduating members of Bryn Mawr’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research will receive their degrees at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 18. Meenakshi [...]

Owls Care, the community service initiative of the Bryn Mawr College Athletics Department, recently launched a blog to chronicle the efforts of each team to support local charitable organizations and causes. The blog is edited by field hockey player Maddy Beckmann ’15 and field hockey and basketball player Holly Constants ’15 with the cooperation of [...]

While many children were relaxing during their summer vacation, Keshia Koech ’14 spent the summer between third and fourth grade aiding children with disabilities. That summer, Koech attended a summer program at Boston College, which encouraged youth participation in community service. The class visited the Boston College Campus School, a school for students with disabilities. [...]

Bryn Mawr English Professor Michael Tratner was among the guests on WHYY radio’s “Radio Times” today for a discussion of the latest Hollywood adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Tratner teaches courses in Bryn Mawr’s Film Studies program  and his second book, Deficits and Desires: Economics, Sexuality and Literature in the Twentieth Century, examines how morality [...]

Sunny skies and seasonal temperatures set the stage for a perfect 2013 May Day. From the strawberries and cream in the morning to the evening screening of A Philadelphia Story, May Day 2013 was a huge success. To see select photos from the day, visit this online gallery. Those interested in reliving the day in [...]

In a recent piece for Slate, Bryn Mawr Chemistry Professor Michelle Francl writes about how “doing chemistry that pushes beyond the boundaries of the classroom” inspired her to pursue the life of a scientist. Writing in connection to the case of Kiera Wilmot, a 16-year-old who has been expelled and may even face criminal charges [...]

At a ceremony on Thursday, April 25, President Jane McAuliffe announced the winners of a host of awards given to Bryn Mawr students. The awards and scholarships cited include honors bestowed by Bryn Mawr as well as those given by outside organizations. Here is the complete list of awards and honorees: NATIONAL AWARDS Fulbright Fellowship [...]

Bryn Mawr English Professor Bethany Schneider continues to garner press coverage in connection with her book The River of No Return. A review of the book appeared in the Philadelphia City Paper. Schneider (under her Bee Ridgway pseudonym) wrote about the writing process in The Huffington Post and in a blog post for Psychology Tomorrow [...]

As CBS.com “MoneyWatch” reports, the Center for College Affordability and Productivity has named the College to its list of “25 Colleges with the Best Professors.” Bryn Mawr was also recognized by the website Greatist.com, which has named Bryn Mawr to its list of “The 25 Healthiest Colleges in the U.S.”.

After looking to better understand Earth’s most devastating mass extinction, Assistant Professor of Geology Pedro Marenco and his students have now turned to a period in which life flourished dramatically. “Contrasting long-term global and short-term local redox proxies during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: A case study from Fossil Mountain, Utah, USA” is the second [...]

The merry respite before finals week is upon ye Bryn Mawr students! The College’s traditional May Day Celebration will be held the Sunday following the last week of classes, on May 5. At 5:45 a.m. seniors receive a sweet serenade and bouquets of flowers from sophomores kicking off a day of mirthful activities rooted in [...]

The Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College is delighted to announce today that the College’s Provost, Dr. Kimberly Wright Cassidy, will become Interim President of Bryn Mawr College on July 1, 2013. A distinguished scholar and respected leader, Dr. Cassidy was first elected to serve as Provost in 2007 and was reappointed for an [...]

Since March, Bryn Mawr has been hosting a public exhibition of roof tile fragments from buildings devastated in the bombing of Hiroshima. Titled “Bridges That Stand When All Else Falls Away: TriCo, Japan, and Melted Roof Tiles from Hiroshima 1945,” the exhibition, which runs through May 17 in Canaday Library, showcases the extraordinary relationship between [...]

In a few weeks, students in “Space and Identity: Psychological, Artistic, and Spatial Approaches to Hamburg, Philadelphia, and Beyond,” one of three current 360° course clusters, will finish their semester by traveling to the North German port city in the course title. While past 360°s have included travel components, “Space and Identity” marks the first [...]

Clark McCauley is the Rachel C. Hale Professor of Sciences and Mathematics and co-director of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at Bryn Mawr College. McCauley wrote the post below for the Psychology Today website in response to the Boston attacks. The Radicalization of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev “Friction” mechanisms at work [...]

Bryn Mawr Professor of English Bethany Schneider (a.k.a. Bee Ridgway) discussed the blending of genres in her new novel, The River of No Return, in a recent interview on the USA Today website. Schneider’s love of Regency romance novels fuels her narrative, but she says she consciously jostled the confines of several defined genres during [...]

The app dedicated to William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest—developed by Bryn Mawr College Professor Katherine Rowe and University of Notre Dame Associate Professor of English Elliott Visconsi—continues to garner acclaim, most recently in a review in The Times Literary Supplement. In “Ariel on screen, Caliban on the iPad,” Raphael Lyne, a senior lecturer in English [...]

Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, felt right at home visiting Bryn Mawr’s campus last week.

“This place IS Hogwarts,” Gilsdorf told a packed room of Tri-Co students, faculty, and staff who had gathered in Thomas Hall to hear him talk about his book.

In the internet era, students doing research have more low-cost tools than ever available to them, allowing undergraduates to do research that would have been impossible even just a few years ago.

In his description for the course “The Curator in the Museum,” Brian Wallace, the College’s curator and academic liaison for art and artifacts, writes that students will examine “the challenges and opportunities confronting curators and their colleagues, peers, audiences, and constituents.” Those challenges and opportunities were made real earlier this month when the class, an [...]

The Bryn Mawr community joins the nation and world in mourning for those lost and injured this week at the Boston Marathon. The Pensby Center and Counseling Services will provide two opportunities to stop by, talk with each other, share feelings about the Boston tragedy, or just sit quietly tomorrow, Friday, April 19. From 9-11 [...]

Bryn Mawr Class of 2015 members Serena Pierce, Chandrea Peng, Orsola Capovilla-Searle, Whitney López, and Esteniolla Maitre are the latest Mawrters to be named Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows. Each fellow works over the course of two years with a professor-mentor on an individual research project. The Fellowship provides students with semester and summer grants that [...]

For the final project in her “Sculpture: Materials and Technique” class, Cities major Andrea Parra ’13 transformed a section of Erdman Hall last week into the setting for a string sculpture meant to “reignite the space by playing with Khan’s linear forms and geometric shapes.” (Louis Khan designed Erdman Hall.) In addition to her sculpture [...]

Members of the Bryn Mawr community buzzed and cut their hair last week as part of the Buzzing 4 Change campaign, which raises money, collects hair for wigs, and shows solidarity with those who have lost their hair due to cancer treatments. This is the fifth year that Bryn Mawr has hosted a Buzzing 4 [...]

The Body Image Council sponsored its fourth annual fundraising walk for the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) on Sunday, April 7. This year, the walk was in honor of Marianne “Mimi Murray,” the former dietitian at Bryn Mawr and Haverford who passed away in 2011. The NEDA walks raise funds to support prevention, awareness, treatment, [...]

Several prominent speakers have been confirmed for The Women in Public Service Institute at Bryn Mawr College happening this summer. Confirmed speakers include Alice Rivlin ’52, founding director, Congressional Budget Office; Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and CEO, Women’s World Banking, and Angela Kane ’70, high representative for disarmament affairs, United Nations. The Institute is a [...]

Renowned Scholar Elaine Showalter ’62, who will be on campus April 18 to give a lecture as part of the “Taking Her Place” exhibition, is the latest to write about Graduate School of Social Work Professor Dana Becker’s new book One Nation Under Stress. Showalter’s piece, “Our Age of Anxiety,” appeared in the April 8 [...]

Bryn Mawr’s Art Club hosted a Spring Art Exhibition Opening on April 9. Featuring a variety of student-created artwork, the exhibition includes photography, digital art, drawings, and paintings from: Meredith Davis ’13 Amelia Light ’13 Duong Nguyen ’13 Amelia Lee Zhi Yi ’13 Elizabeth Reilly ’14 Emelie Curl ’14 Prianna Pathak ’14 Sara Gladwin ’14 [...]

Newly named Watson Fellow Sarah Aubrey ’13 will spend a year traveling across the globe studying how different cultures, religions, and ethnic groups perceive what makes a space a “home.” In conducting her research, Aubrey plans to travel to Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, and Brazil. “I want to see if people have a [...]

The pressures on college students to have substantive internship and professional experiences before graduating have never been stronger. This fall, students at Bryn Mawr and Haverford will enjoy an even greater level of career and professional development services as each school launches independent centers that will continue to leverage the strengths of the Bi-Co model [...]

In recent weeks, the College has hosted several webinars and on-campus events intended to connect students with international alumnae. As part of a new international initiative called the Bryn Mawr at Work Series: Global Alumnae Career Networking, students have the opportunity to interact with alumnae around the world via Skype webinars and at in-person events [...]

For devoted CSI fan Sydney Espinosa ’14, an internship at the crime scene unit of the Forensic Science Division of the Austin Police Department in Austin, TX, was a grisly fairytale come true. But, she reports, “Living out the reality was infinitely more glamorous and interesting than anything I watched on TV.” In the field [...]

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GSSWSR Professor Dana Becker has written a piece for the Washington Post’s “Five Myths” series in connection with her new book One Nation Under Stress. Becker has also had a recent opinion piece in Time, a review in the New Republic, and she was interviewed on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” In addition, influential blogger Andrew [...]

At age six, Ellen Vari ’13 was less than happy that her parents enrolled her in an elementary school across town with a partial-immersion Spanish program. “All the people that I knew up to that point were going to our neighborhood school, and I was going about 45 minutes away to a school with nobody [...]

Bryn Mawr College Admissions Officers, accompanied by Susan Snyder, an education reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, saw and reviewed the new Tina Fey/Paul Rudd comedy Admission last night. In the film, Fey (who created and portrayed Liz Lemon, a character who attended Bryn Mawr College and the University of Maryland ‘on a partial competitive jazz [...]

Meenakshi Gopinath, president of India’s Lady Shri Ram College and an advocate for women’s education and empowerment and peace in the region, will give Bryn Mawr’s Commencement address on Saturday, May 18. A political scientist with expertise in Gandhian thought, security, gender, peacebuilding, and Indian politics, Gopinath was the first woman to serve on the [...]

Bryn Mawr is offering four 360° course clusters for the fall 2013 semester. “Contemplative Traditions” will be the first repeat 360° and “To Protect the Health of the Public,” “Modern Art in Exhibition,” and “Perspectives on Sustainability: Disasters and Rebuilding in Japan,” will be offered for the first time. “The 360° clusters offered this fall [...]

Samyuktha Natarajan ’15 was awarded a 2013 Newman Civic Fellows Award by Campus Compact. This award honors inspiring college student leaders who have demonstrated their investment in finding solutions to the challenges that face our communities throughout the country. Natarajan is a student leader active in issues of public education and environmental justice. During her first two [...]

Bryn Mawr Director of Creative Writing Daniel Torday recently discussed his award-winning book, The Sensualist, in the “Art Attack” column on Philly.com. Torday’s novella, a coming-of-age story about a Baltimore teenager, won a 2012 National Jewish Book Award — the 2012 Foundation for Jewish Culture’s Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction. From Philly.com: A big [...]

Last month, the winners of Bryn Mawr’s Project Dorm Room competition were announced. This is the fifth year that Residentials Life has held this photo contest, which is open to all resident undergraduate students. Rooms entered into Project Dorm Room are first judged by the student body, and then the grand prize winner is chosen [...]

As part of “The Mediterranean as a Crossroads: History, Migrations, Identities,” one of three 360° course clusters being offered this spring, students traveled to Marseille, France, during spring break. In addition to touring the area, they spent time with social workers to get a better understanding of the challenges facing modern immigrants in the region. [...]

Growing up in a rural, working-class family, Melanie Rowe ’13 never imagined that she would be graduating from Bryn Mawr College and pursuing her MBA/MPH at Case Western Reserve University. Her parents instilled in her a strong respect for hard work and an understanding that some people may relate certain mannerisms or appearance to a person’s [...]

For the 2,700+ students who applied for admission to Bryn Mawr’s Class of 2017, the wait is finally over as of 4 p.m. today. That’s when decisions are posted online and applicants can find out if they have been accepted. With the highest number of applicants in Bryn Mawr’s history vying to join this year’s [...]

Family, friends, colleagues, and students are invited to celebrate Philip L. Kilbride at Bryn Mawr College on April 5 & 6, 2013.  Please RSVP to Academic Administrative Assistant Karen Sulpizio at ksulpizi@brynmawr.edu; 610-526-5030. Click on the below image to enlarge.

In the course “Democracy and Development,” Professors Michael Rock (Economics) and Marc Ross (Political Science) join students in examining democracy’s “third wave,” which occurred from 1974 to 1990 and during which the number of democracies in the world grew from 39 to 117. The aim of the course is to get students to examine what [...]

The Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College today announced that Dr. Jane McAuliffe will step down as President of the College upon the completion of her current term on June 30, 2013. The Board of Trustees will appoint an Interim President for the 2013-2014 academic year, and will conduct a national search for the [...]