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»
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 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 »
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.
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’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»
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»
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»
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, 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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.
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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»
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 »
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, 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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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