Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College Professor of Social Work and Social Research Jim Martin, along with Associate Professor Nadine M. Bean and Professor Richard W. Voss from West Chester University, conducted a symposium at the recent National Association of Social Work Conference held in Washington, D.C. The symposium, titled, “Social Work Education on Serving Veterans and Military [...]

Visiting Professor of Social Work and Social Research Sanford Schram, has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the Charles McCoy Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA). The award is given annually since 2000 by the Caucus for a New Political Science section of the APSA and goes to a scholar [...]

Faculty and graduate students from six colleges and universities met at Bryn Mawr last weekend for a workshop entitled “Walking the Walk on Climate Change.” Hosted by Bryn Mawr Political Science Professor Carol Hager, the participants presented their research on local responses to energy and environmental challenges in China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Russia, Poland, Germany, [...]

The Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research’s Sanford Schram spent much of the winter holiday traveling abroad, at the invitation of two universities in Austria and one in Australia. During these visits, Schram spoke about his new book, Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race, co-authored with Joe Soss and Richard Fording and published by the University of Chicago Press in the fall of 2011.

Darlyne Bailey, dean of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, professor, and special assistant to the president for community partnerships, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Deans and Directors of Graduate Schools of Social Work (NADD). NADD is a membership organization working to promote excellence [...]

GSSWSR’s Sanford Schram will speak at the opening event of the Moonstone Arts Center’s five-part “Class Warfare in Philadelphia” series on Thursday, Sept. 8. With local public-interest lawyer Irv Acklesberg, Schram will discuss the ongoing financial crisis, the financial sector, and predatory lending. The event opens with a photography exhibition and reception at 5:30 p.m.; Schram [...]

From Institutional Review Board Chair Leslie B. Alexander: Dear faculty, students, and staff: Above please find the dates of the IRB meetings for the spring, where all proposals requiring a full review must be reviewed. Your Departmental Reviewer and if you are a student, your adviser for the research, must sign off on the proposal. [...]

On Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 4:30 p.m., Dean Darlyne Bailey of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research will host a gathering in Wyndham to honor three long-serving members of the Bryn Mawr community who are entering various degrees of retirement. Marcia Martin, Ph.D ’82, Nancy Kirby, M.S.S. ’65, and Paula Dubin have [...]

At Sunday’s commencement ceremony, President Jane McAuliffe presented some of the College’s highest honors to graduating seniors and members of the faculty. The Gertrude Slaughter Fellowship is awarded this year to two members of the graduating class for excellence in scholarship to be used for study in the United States or abroad. This year, the [...]

Phil Hopper of the New York Institute of Technology will give a talk titled “Understanding the Wall: Barriers and Visual Culture in Belfast, Israel and the West Bank,” on Monday, April 12, from 4:15-5:30 p.m. in Carpenter 21 at Bryn Mawr. The lecture is part of a series on conflict and visual culture sponsored by [...]