As Mark Lord planned the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Theater Program's 2009 fall production, he took into account a factor he hadn't needed to consider in previous years: a beautifully renovated, state-of-the-art theater facility. Goodhart Theater, dedicated in 1928, has always been a stunningly beautiful building, said Lord. Now it is also a great working theater, capable ... Read more»
Three Bryn Mawr professors and a few of their favorite mechanical teaching assistants visited Washington, D.C., last month to advise members of Congress on the use of robotics in education.
Bryn Mawr was one of a few institutions invited by the Congressional Bi-Partisan Robotics Caucus to a briefing ... 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 than ... Read more»
UCLA Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam, a noted scholar of the history of South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and European expansion, will hold the 2009 Mary Flexner Lectureship at Bryn Mawr, which has been the proving ground for some of the most influential texts published in the humanities since its inception in 1928. Read more»
The new exhibition Darwin’s Ancestors: Tracing the Origins of the "Origin of Species," will open on Thursday, Oct. 22, with a lecture by Swarthmore College Professor of Biology Scott Gilbert, titled “Disagreements among Friends: How T. H. Morgan and E. B. Wilson's Agreeing to Disagree Helped Establish Genetics and the Modern Synthesis.” Read ... Read more»
