Bryn Mawr College

Maxine Savitz '58 is a member of President Obama's newly formed Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, reports cnet.com.

 

There have been no reported cases of swine flu at Bryn Mawr College at this time. The College is closely monitoring this situation and will update the campus community whenever warranted.

 

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 ... 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 ... Read more»

 

The Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center, the Bryn Mawr and Haverford Pre-Health Programs, and the Bryn Mawr Post-Baccalaureate Program are co-sponsoring the conference “Telemedicine: Future Directions in Service Delivery” from 1-5 p.m. on Friday, April 24, in room 224 of Thomas Great Hall. This conference has been designed to provide pre-health and postbac students, ... Read more»

 

While he's got plenty of charisma, South Africa's presumptive next president is going to need "an institutional management culture" to make sure the details of government are taken care of, Political Science Professor Michael H. Allen tells National Public Radio.

 

Bryn Mawr students and graduating seniors interested in working for nonprofits dedicated to community service got some great news from the federal government yesterday with the passage of the Senator Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. The most sweeping expansion of the nation’s service programs since the ... 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 ... 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 ... Read more»

 

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 ... 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 ... 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 ... Read more»

 

The Chicago Tribune is one of several media outlets reporting the nomination of A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D. '76, as deputy director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

 

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 ... 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 ... Read more»

 

A New York Times article about furniture and interior designer Lockwood De Forest and an upcoming sale of a collection of his work mentions that his artistry is on display in Bryn Mawr's Thomas Great Hall, for which he designed much of the woodwork.

 

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 ... 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 ... Read more»