Julie Anna Potts ’91 has been named chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who chairs the committee, announced Potts’ appointment in December.
Potts, an Alabama native who majored in English at Bryn Mawr, earned her law degree from George Washington University … Read more»
Poet, scholar and human-rights activist Luzma (Luz Maria) Umpierre, M.A. ’76, Ph.D. ’78, was honored by DePaul University’s John T. Richardson Library at a reception in in November. The event recognized Umpierre’s donation to the library of a collection of her artwork, poetry, photographs and documents chronicling workplace legal struggles, lesbianism and the migrant experience.
The late Anne Truitt ’43 (1921-2004) is the subject of a major exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian Institution’s museum of modern and contemporary art. The exhibition, titled “Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection,” opened in October and will run through Jan. 3. Read more»
The cover story in the November issue of National Geographic focuses on the work of Salima Ikram ’86, a professor of archaeology at the University of Cairo and the co-director of the Animal Mummy Project at the Egyptian Museum.
“Specializing in zooarchaeology—the study of ancient animal remains—Ikram has helped launch a … Read more»
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has recognized Juliet Goodfriend ’63 as a 2009 Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania. “Women recognized as Distinguished Daughters are those whose achievements on a national and statewide scale have been so outstanding that they have brought honor and respect to the commonwealth,” says the Pennsylvania Commission for … Read more»
The New York University Press recently published Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx by veteran New York Times writer and editor Constance Rosenblum ’65. The book traces the 100-year history of the four-mile-long Grand Boulevard and Concourse, a broad avenue that … Read more»
A documentary produced and directed by Joanna Chejade-Bloom ’02 made headlines when it aired on the History Channel in September. Read more»
Scott Silverman, who earned an M.A. in history from Bryn Mawr in 1990 and served on the College’s library staff for more than 20 years, was appointed library director and coordinator of information services at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., last spring. He began work at Earlham on Aug. 1.
According … Read more»
Classical archaeologist Leslie Preston Day ’66 has been named the Charles D. and Elizabeth S. LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Wabash College. She is the first woman to hold the post.
Day, who first taught at Wabash as a visiting assistant professor in 1977 and joined its permanent faculty … Read more»
Filmmaker Sarah Schenck ’87 has been selected as a 2009-10 Fellow of Bryn Mawr’s Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center. The Hepburn Fellows Program brings to Bryn Mawr’s campus individuals who bridge academics and practice in nontraditional or unconventional ways in any of the three broad areas the Hepburn Center supports: film … Read more»
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