Bryn Mawr College

The 380 incoming students who arrived on Bryn Mawr's campus on Wednesday, Aug. 26, joined generations of young women who have come from all over the world each year to ... Read more»

 

When she was growing up in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, Akua Nyame-Mensah ’10 often traveled to neighboring Ghana to visit her relatives. Although she loved seeing her family, Nyame-Mensah says, "I complained about the underdeveloped infrastructure." Why, she wondered, did Côte d'Ivoire have more and better roads ... Read more»

 

Can’t figure out your kids? Chances are Bryn Mawr's Child Study Institute can, writes Main Line Today in this article about the Institute. Bryn Mawr Psychology Professor Leslie Rescorla and her staff provide psychological testing, therapy/counseling, educational support, and school consultation to children and ... Read more»

 

In Revisiting the Kate We Wanted to Be, Forward editor and former Hepburn Center Fellow Jane Eisner writes about Katharine Hepburn ’28.

 

The Philadelphia Inquirer quotes Bryn Mawr Chief Financial Officer John Griffith and Facilities Manager Glenn Smith in this article about how, along with Trustee Cynthia Archer and other college officials, they managed to save the College money by accelerating planned campus repair and restoration projects.

 

Bryn Mawr’s Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research’s Sandy Schram is partnering with the Women's Community Revitalization Project (WCRP) on an initiative that will involve both undergraduates as well as master's and doctoral students in social work in a continuing ... Read more»

 

Update: Sept. 16, 2009 Information about Seasonal flu vaccines Information about seasonal flu vaccines for the Bryn Mawr College community is available on this Web page. The Student Health Center has registered with the Pennsylvania State Health Department to be a provider of the H1N1 vaccine when it becomes available. The Health Center will e-mail ... Read more»

 

This summer, while many colleges and universities had seriously curtailed repair and restoration efforts, College officials took advantage of the weak economy to reap major savings on construction by accelerating the pace of planned repairs. Read more

 

At a time when donations to colleges and universities are down nationwide, Bryn Mawr’s class of 2009 set new benchmarks in showing its generous support of the College. Seventy-six percent of the class gave a total of $4,732, easily eclipsing marks of 61 percent participation and $3,794 raised by the class of 2007. The College ... Read more»

 

Bryn Mawr and other top women's colleges are highlighted in the Forbes.com article "Why Women's Colleges Are Still Relevant." "They offer an open, empowering atmosphere, leadership training and, yes, co-ed classes," says Forbes.

 

Psychologist A. Thomas McLellan, M.A. ’74 and Ph.D. ’76, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Until his appointment McLellan, an expert on addiction and treatment, was a professor at the university of Pennsylvania and executive director of ... Read more»

 

A group of senior scholars, including Bryn Mawr President Jane McAuliffe, recently released a report advocating a number of ambitious initiatives to strengthen collaboration between the colleges and universities of the United States and United Kingdom and to foster the growth of an open, competitive, and accessible higher-education sector in other nations. Read ... Read more»

 

Professor Michelle M. Francl, chair of Bryn Mawr’s chemistry department, is among the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The ACS Fellows Program was created in December 2008 “to recognize members of the American Chemical Society for outstanding achievements in and contributions to ... Read more»