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, ... Read more»
Last fall, the American Cancer Society bestowed its highest award, the ACS Medal of Honor, on four Americans. The two scientists in the group—Berkeley National Laboratory's Mina Jahan Bissell and Albert Einstein College of Medicine's Susan Band Horwitz—are both undergraduate alumnae of Bryn Mawr. Read more »
Bryn Mawr College has been named one of the nation's 50 "Best Value" private colleges by The Princeton Review.
In its profile of Bryn Mawr on USA Today’s website, the editors at The Princeton Review said, “Classes here are challenging, boasting some outstanding professors and an impressive student-faculty ratio (8:1!)"
The “Best Value Colleges" list, reported ... Read more»
From the dance floor to the dais, optimism and high spirits were in evidence as delegates from more than 40 colleges and universities around the nation joined hundreds of members of the extended Bryn Mawr College community to celebrate the inauguration of Jane Dammen McAuliffe as the College's eighth president last weekend.
“Documenting Ethnic Wedding Traditions in America: The Photographs of Katrina Thomas,” an exhibition of work by Katrina Thomas ’49, opened on Tuesday, Sept. 23, in the Canaday Library Class of 1912 Rare Book Room. The exhibition was curated by Tracie ... Read more»
For the second time in three years, the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research's Sanford Schram has won the American Political Science Association's annual award for the best paper on public policy.
Schram and GSSWSR doctoral student Linda Houser presented the paper at the ... Read more»
After the U.S. women’s eight rowing team won its first Olympic gold medal in 24 years at this year’s games, team coxswain Mary Whipple said, “This is for the 1984 girls.”
One of those "girls" was Bryn Mawr rowing coach Carol Bower, who recently took a ... Read more»
During her first weeks in office, President Jane Dammen McAuliffe has been "enchanted by the stunning beauty" of the Bryn Mawr campus. She has also acquired a familiarity with furnaces, boilers, and ductwork that is unusual in a chief executive.
As McAuliffe undertook a thorough walking ... Read more»
For centuries wine makers have understood the importance of terroir—or the combination of soil, climate, and geography that gives the grapes of particular regions their distinct qualities—in making great wine.
But there remains to this day a great deal of controversy as to just what ... Read more»
Bryn Mawr Featured in Associated Press Article on the Posse Foundation Bryn Mawr is featured prominently in "College students find support in campus 'posses,'" an Associated Press story about the Posse Foundation. Posse has worked ...
Creative Writing Program Director Karl Kirchwey Featured on Poetry Daily Director of Creative Writing Karl Kirchwey is the featured poet of the day on ...
Would Mad Men’s Betty Draper Have Made it at Bryn Mawr? 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 ...
Bryn Mawr in the Media: BMC Anthropologist Contributes to Major Study of Early Hominid Skeleton Assistant Professor of Anthropology Denise F. Su co-authored one of a suite of papers about ...
Bryn Mawr in the Media: Inside Higher Ed Bryn Mawr's new Test Flexible policy is among the innovations taking place in the use of standardized testing by higher education institutions in admissions, ...
Bryn Mawr in the Media: O. The Oprah Magazine Bryn Mawr student Manal Zaher is among the students profiled in this article about the "Hope Fund," a scholarship program for Palestinian refugees.
