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May 13, 2008

Center for Science in Society discussion groups publish special issues of academic journals; New faculty: Poet-scholar Warren Liu explores the boundaries of ethnicity and literary form; LLC Director Chris Boyland named NITLE Technology Fellow; Academic awards announced on May Day

 

 

May 1, 2008

Bryn Mawr seniors win $10,000 Davis Grant to fund arts project involving homeless men; Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $1.2 million Undergraduate Science Education Grant to Bryn Mawr; Senior math majors chat with J. Crew CEO;

 

 

April 24, 2008

Paula Mans '08 wins Fulbright for study in Brazil; Spring Dance Concert features reconstruction of late work by modern master José Limón; TLI pilots continuing staff education program; Gastronomic guru Molly Stevens to speak; BMC to test emergency siren next Wednesday; May Day to be celebrated Sunday, May 4

 

April 17, 2008

Investment group's experiments in finance contribute valuable experience, funds for campus improvements; Bryn Mawr College welcomes the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict to its new home; BMC students, faculty present their work to science educators and legislators in D.C.; Opinion sampler: six Bryn Mawrters discuss their voting decisions (or lack thereof); Former Hepburn Fellow Karen Stephenson to discuss social-network analysis as a tool for social change; On campus this week: Working out whiteness; Perspectives on blackness; "Just Social" music festival explores hybridity and heritage; The role of religion in international relations; Owl Investment Group senior career panel

 

April 10, 2008

A step toward the sweat-free sweatshirt: BMC endorses labor-practices proposal;Q&A: Enrique Sacerio-Garí on Cuba; Q&A: Enrique Sacerio-Garí on Cuba; Around the Bi-Co this weekend: Tenure, the movie; Choosing sides: GLBT people of color; Jumping Off Bridges screening and discussion; Berlioz Requiem; Creative Writing faculty reads

 

 

April 3, 2008

Obama policy director Karen Kornbluh '85 to discuss the path from BMC to Capitol Hill; What's in a syllabus? Bryn Mawr students and professors offer opinions on the ideal course map; Hepburn Center Fellows Eyakuze, Wood to lead forum on women's reproductive health at home and abroad;World Wildlife Fund scientist to deliver Rothenberg lecture; NYU art historian to lecture on medieval manuscript; Upcoming events of note: PMA/BMC Symposium with keynote address by Anna Chave; Silke-Maria Weineck lecture on fatherhood in Vienna, circa 1900; Reading by Diane Gilliam Fisher, poet of Appalachia

March 27, 2008

Emily McGlynn '09 wins Truman Scholarship on her way to clearing the air in Pennsylvania; Great Hall Chamber Orchestra to perform April 5; Performing artist Aaron Cromie, Bi-Co Theater Program bring commedia dell'arte to Goodhart stage; GSSWSR students exhibit art; On campus this week: Disabilites and communication; Bi-Co Orchestra; International Justice Week; Collective memory of intractable conflicts; Local food and wine with Judy Wicks, the Fit Club

March 20, 2008

Poet and Memoirist Patricia Hampl top Read; ABC News anchor Cynthia McFadden to Deliver Commencement Convocation Address; Il Fondamento: Baroque Classics, Little-Known Gems Performed on Historically Accurate Instruments; NEH Chair Bruce Cole, Ph.D. '69, To Speak On the Future of the Humanities; New Faculty: GSSWSR's Kevin Robinson is Listening; Architectural Historian Paula Lupkin '89 to Deliver Keynote Address at Barbara Miller Lane Symposium; Celebrated Author Lesléa Newman to Read; Religion on Campus Week to Explore Faiths From Islam to Neopaganism

March 6, 2008

Bryn Mawr Teams With Main Line School Night to Offer Series of Lectures on Cuba;"Social Justice in Math and Science Education" Symposium Features Keynote Speaker Hrabowski; PEN/Faulkner Award Winner James Salter to Read; Saudi Arabia Expert Mai Yamani '79 to Speak; Penn Professor to Lecture on War and Democracy

February 28, 2008

Dancing Toward a Thesis from Different Directions; Street Outreach Tackles the Leftovers Dilemma; Platanos and Collard Greens to Spice Goodhart Stage

 

 

February 21, 2008

For Young Scholars, a Taste of the Academic Life at Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellows Conference; Student V-Day Performances Raise a Record $3,715 for Women's Organizations; Bryn Mawr Spanish Professor Interviewed on "Radio Times"

 

 

February 14, 2008

Bryn Mawr and McAuliffe: Love at First Sight; Roller-Coaster Tour Offers Unusual Perspective on Bryn Mawr's Campus; Dance Faculty Concert Offers Top Talent in Intimate Space; Q & A: Career Development Director Liza Jane Bernard on Getting a Job

 

 

February 7-8, 2008

Bryn Mawr Names Dean of Georgetown University's College of Arts and Sciences President-Elect; Musician-Scholar Bernice Johnson Reagon to Deliver Black History Month Keynote Address; How Well Is Your Thesis Hidden? Publishing Students' Work on the World Wide Web; BMC Cities Prof Daniela Voith '76 Tackles Philly's Outdated Zoning Code; Q & A: Political Scientist Marissa Martino Golden on the Primary Process; India Jazz Suites Offers Dialogue Between Indian and African-American Traditions

 

 

January 31, 2008

3XL: Bryn Mawr Rappers Introduce Philly To Hip-hop with a Feminist Attitude; "Young Lion" Olga Grushin to Read Fiction at Bryn Mawr; Q & A: Economist David Ross on the Fiscal-Stimulus Package; Prince Among Slaves: Screening, Discussion of the History of an Enslaved African Muslim in America

 

 

January 24, 2008

NSF Awards Grant to Bryn Mawr and Spelman Colleges to Increase Number of Women in Mathematics; Undergraduate Curators to Discuss Medieval Manuscripts at Opening of Exhibition January 31; International Civic Engagement to Be Examined at Conference at Bryn Mawr Next Week; Assistant Track Coach Delilah DiCrescenzo Gracefully Endures a Wave of Media Attention; Challenging Women's Final Tally: $232 Million

 

January 17, 2008

First Full-Day MLK Celebration Offers Reflection, Service; Main Line MLK Association to Honor Vickers, Holland During Annual Celebration This Sunday; New Faculty: Michael Schulz Hopes to Tie Relativity to Quantum Mechanics With String Theory; Bryn Mawr Hoops Defeat Rival Haverford in Overtime; Fall Sports Wrap-Up: Student-Athletes Honored

 

 

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