Bryn Mawr College

On Tuesday, March 4, at 4 p.m. in Thomas 110, Professor of Psychology Clark R. McCauley will offer a talk titled "Political Radicalization: Are We Winning the War of Ideas against Jihadi Terrorism?"  The lecture, sponsored by the President's Office, is free and open to the ... Read more»

 

Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jenny Rickard and her famous blue pen were featured in a recent U.S. News and World Report article about how colleges and universities have moved beyond the simple acceptance letter.

 

The new exhibition "The Very Best Thing in a Girl's Life": Early Women's Colleges in Fiction and Fact draws on the Bryn Mawr College library’s large collection of turn-of-the-century fiction about college girls, and on scrapbooks, diaries, and correspondence from some of Bryn Mawr's earliest graduates. Read more »

 

The Tabitha Dance Collective, which produces a senior dance major's thesis project each year, will host performances of "Dreams Under My Feet," by Caitlin Romasco '09, this Saturday, Feb. 28, and Sunday, March 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Pembroke Studio.The program will also feature a piece choreographed by Caitlin Iles ’10 and music from the ... Read more»

 

Poet Mary Jo Salter, whose 2008 collection A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems was called “deeply human, brilliantly realized and refreshingly perceptive” by BookPage, will give a reading at Bryn Mawr on Wednesday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ely Room at Wyndham Alumnae House. Read more »

 

Professor of Mathematics Victor Donnay and several colleagues have received a $300,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation to design a model program that will help local teachers use real-world environmental sustainability projects to engage students in science and math. Read more »

 

On Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m., Syracuse University President and Chancellor Nancy Cantor will continue the Hepburn Center's "Celebrating Women Scientists as University Presidents" lecture series. Cantor's talk, titled “Women as Academic Leaders: Insiders with Outsider Values,” will take place in Wyndham Alumnae House's Ely Room. It is free and open to the public.... Read more»

 

Bryn Mawr College President Jane McAuliffe has been elected to the Council on Foreign Relations, the nation’s preeminent nongovernmental, nonpartisan think tank on foreign affairs. “As a scholar dedicated to fostering intercultural understanding and the president of a college committed to promoting quality higher education globally, ... Read more»

 

In his inauguration address last month, President Barack Obama said his administration would “restore science to its rightful place.” We asked the Bryn Mawr faculty what they hoped or thought the president meant by that comment. Here are a few of the answers we got: President Jane Dammen McAuliffe... Read more»

 

The Corporation for National and Community Service honored Bryn Mawr recently with a place on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and contributions to America’s communities. Bryn Mawr is one of only three Pennsylvania schools (the University of Pennsylvania and Waynesburg University are the others) and 83 ... Read more»

 

On Tuesday, Feb. 17, the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center will present a talk by 2008-09 Hepburn Fellow Ana María López ’82 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ely Room of Wyndham House. López' talk, titled "Prevention and Treatment of Women’s Cancers: The Science and Practice of Medicine," is free and open to the public.

 

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Bryn Mawr President Jane McAuliffe, and a host of other luminaries gathered at the National Constitution Center Saturday to honor Jane Golden, executive director of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, with the 2009 Katherine Hepburn Medal in recognition of her tireless efforts to build community through public art, engage at-risk youth, ... Read more»

 

Associate Dean Judy Balthazar has been selected to fill the recently created position of Dean of Studies for the Undergraduate College. As the first dean of studies, Balthazar will oversee the undergraduate college's academic-advising and support services. She and the associate and assistant deans who report ... Read more»

 

As part of its season of site-specific and ‘alternative space’ performances during the renovation of historic Goodhart Hall, the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series offers an unusual split bill on Friday, Feb. 13: two companies with ties to Pennsylvania Ballet that push the bounds of classical dance. Dance troupes Ballet X and Miro Dance ... Read more»

 

Director Tony Zierra and producer Elizabeth Yoffe will screen and discuss their new documentary film My Big Break at Bryn Mawr on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library. The event, sponsored by The Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center, the Film Studies Program, ... Read more»

 

Jo Ellen Johnson Parker ’75 will become the 10th president of Sweet Briar College on July 1, Sweet Briar's board of directors has announced. Sweet Briar, a liberal-arts college in central Virginia, was founded in 1901 and serves a population of about 800 students in a women's ... Read more»

 

The New York Times recently reported that “despite soaring unemployment and the worst economic crisis in decades, 18 states cut their welfare rolls last year, and nationally the number of people receiving cash assistance remained at or near the lowest in more than 40 years.” We ... Read more»

 

Nina Jablonski ’75, author of Skin: A Natural History, talks about her latest research, which indicates that skin has changed color in human lineages much more quickly than scientists had previously supposed.

 

Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania spoke to Bryn Mawr faculty and students in Dalton Hall Monday about the economy and other key policy issues confronting the United States. Sestak's visit was hosted by Associate Professor of Economics David Ross as part of his "Policy Analysis and Economic Advocacy" seminar. Read more ... Read more»

 

Bryn Mawr's annual Faculty Dance Concert, to be held this Friday, Feb. 6, at 8 p.m., offers an opportunity to see some of Philadelphia's top terpsichorean talent in the graceful and intimate setting of Pembroke Dance Studio. Five of the professional dancers and choreographers who teach in ... Read more»

 

Dean Jenny Rickard and her counterpart at Dickinson College assure college-bound students that financial aid continues to make private colleges affordable, even in hard times. This opinion piece originally appeared in the Harrisburg Patriot-News. Read more »

 

"It's a beautiful place that rivals the Ivies," Haverford sophmore James Merriam tells The Philadelphia Inquirer in explaining why he's chosen to room at Bryn Mawr.