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The GSSWSR's Sanford Schram is cited in "Do Americans Still Hate Welfare?" on the New York Times blog Economix: Explaining the Science of Everyday Life.

 

Menda Francois ’09, Kate Tomaskovic ’09, and Lucy Edwards ’08 will be taking part in the first faculty-directed production presented by the Headlong Performance Institute (HPI) this Wednesday and Thursday. "The Girl With the Rainbow Socks: A Haunted House/Performance at the Parlor” will be staged Oct. 29 and 30 at 7, 8:15 and 9:30 p.m. ... Read more»

 

Students and faculty of the Bryn Mawr Geology Department spent Fall Break visiting the mountains of the Iberian Peninsula, where Department Chair Arlo Weil has been involved with groundbreaking research on the breakup of the Pangea supercontinent. Sixteen students and faculty members atop the ... Read more»

 

This year, Information Services will take its annual Halloween festivities to Canaday Library's Lusty Cup Cafe. Students, faculty, staff, and their families are invited to join ghouls and geeks, lycanthropes and librarians to view examples of the College's collection of public-domain horror films, learn about Halloween and Day of the Dead traditions around the world, ... Read more»

 

Photos from the inauguration of Jane Dammen McAuliffe as Bryn Mawr's eighth president on Oct. 3 and 4.

 

What effect do food stamps have on the long-term health and economic success of their recipients? It’s a difficult question to answer because so many variables besides food stamps contribute to health and economic outcomes. But Professor of Social Work and Social Research Thomas P. Vartanian ... Read more»

 

On Thursday, Oct. 30, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., the undergraduate Residence Council will sponsor trick-or-treating in the residence halls. All faculty, staff, students, and their friends are invited to bring their children to trick-or-treat in Denbigh, Haffner, Merion, Pembroke East, Pembroke West, Radnor, Rockefeller, and Rhoads North and South.

 

Saskia Subramanian ’88 will present and discuss her documentary film Beyond Breast Cancer: Stories of Survivors, on Monday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Carpenter B21. The event, sponsored by the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center and the Department of Sociology, is free and open ... Read more»

 

Professor of History Sharon Ullman recently appeared on 98.5 Ben FM's "Woman of the Week" show to talk about GLBT History Month (streaming audio is available on Ben FM's Web site; Ullman is the second person interviewed in this clip). Ullman had been asked by ... Read more»

 

Harpist Gillian Grassie ’09 is among the finalists for the prestigious New York Songwriters Circle Contest.

 

Fresh from a sold-out run as one of the 2008 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival’s most talked-about performances, CAR comes to Bryn Mawr on Friday, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 25, as a special free event in the College's 2008-09 Performing Arts Series. CAR is the ... Read more»

 

Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman, a molecular biologist, will open a lecture series on science and leadership on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Wyndham's Ely Room, with a talk titled “To Boldly Go Where Men Have Gone Before: Women Scientists and Academic Leadership." Tilghman ... Read more»

 

Author Jim Shepard, whose short story collection Like You’d Understand, Anyway has recently become available in paperback, will give a reading  on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ely Room at the Wyndham Alumnae House. Free and open to the public, Shepard’s appearance is ... Read more»

 

BBC Radio's Steve Evans has been taking a bus tour of the United States and reporting on the places where he stops and people he meets. At a stop in Gettysburg, he had Madeline Birkner '10 and another young person read the Gettysburg Address with him. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Gettysburg teenagers Madeleine Birkner '10 ... 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.

 

NBC's Luke Russert visited Bryn Mawr last Thursday to gauge students' reactions to Sarah Palin and Joe Biden in the vice-presidential debate.