'Kudos' Archive
The American Mathematical Society and several other groups have deemed April “Mathematics Awareness Month” and named Bryn Mawr Professor Victor Donnay chair of the committee responsible for planning the month’s activities, which this year highlight the “Mathematics of Sustainability.” As part of the Math Awareness Month website, Donnay recruited a range of short essays about [...]
GSSWSR MSS students were on the Bryn Mawr campus reflecting the “many faces of social work” to students, faculty, and administrators on Tuesday, March 26th. In ongoing efforts to increase awareness about the profession, these annual “Shout Out” events provide visibility and build positive public perception for the social work profession. Students distributed educational material [...]
Mathematics Professor Emeritus Rhonda Hughes was awarded the 2013 Elizabeth Bingham Award by the Association for Women in Science (AWIS), Philadelphia Chapter. This award is presented each year to a distinguished local scientist who has significantly influenced the advancement of women in science. Elizabeth Bingham was the driving force behind founding the Philadelphia Chapter of AWIS. [...]
Research by Bryn Mawr chemistry students Sarah Burke, Ph.D. student and principal author, Sharan Mehta ’12, Roselyn Appenteng ’13, Terry Huh (Hfd ’14), and Professor Bill Malachowski (principal investigator) took home the top prize in a poster contest at the 2013 American Chemical Society-Young Chemists Committee Poster Session held at Drexel University last month. Burke, [...]
Several Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research professors and alumnae will be panelists at the “Meeting Again at the Crossroads: Social Work and Public Health” symposium, held at the Solis-Cohen Auditorium at Thomas Jefferson University on April 4 at noon. Panelists include Dean and Professor Darlyne Bailey, Assistant Professor Cindy Sousa, [...]
Michelle Wilson ’13 recently contributed to a segment on the Huffington Post’s live-streaming network, HuffPost Live, on the topic of lying. The segment was a 30-minute video-panel discussion about why we lie and when it is okay to tell white lies. Wilson was asked to contribute in this discussion when a writer for Huffington Post discovered [...]
Director of Dance Linda Caruso-Haviland has written the content for a Pew Center for Arts & Heritage funded web-based project focused on the work of choreographer, dancer, and scholar Susan Leigh Foster. As part of the project, Caruso-Haviland introduced three of Foster’s “danced lectures” to audiences. In addition, she wrote a series overview, commentary on [...]
The latest piece by Creative Writing Lecturer Elizabeth Mosier ’84, titled “The Pit and the Page,” appears in the most recent edition of the literary journal Creative Nonfiction. The issue exclusively features creative non-fiction on scientific topics written by women. Mosier’s piece focuses on archaeology and memory and her mother’s Alzheimer’s. From the essay’s opening: [...]
Dean of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Darlyne Bailey is the keynote speaker at the annual Making a Difference luncheon sponsored by the Chester County Fund for Women and Girls. This will be the eighth time the fund has held this luncheon. Bailey has severed as a vice president and dean [...]
Chemistry Professor Michelle Francl created a lot of online buzz pointing out the possible dangers of benignly-named alternative medicines in a recent article in the online magazine Slate. Along with the nearly 1,500 comments and more than 6,500 Facebook “likes,” the science video blog Bloggingheads also discussed the story in a recent post.