Bryn Mawr College

Jennifer Ho ’87 has recently been appointed Senior Advisor for Housing and Services at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In this role, Ho will manage the Department’s work to connect housing with health and social services. From February 2010 to February 2013, Ho was a Deputy Director at the United States Interagency [...]

Everyone and I, a new work by playwright Elizabeth Scanlon ’99, premieres next week as part of the 2013 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts. Taking audiences back to 1959, Everyone and I will offer a glimpse into renowned poet Frank O’Hara’s writing of his elegiac poem, “The Day Lady Died”— a reaction to the [...]

Lost Letters of Medieval Life: English Society, 1200-1250, a book co-written by Martha Carlin ’75 and David Crouch, has recently been published by University of Pennsylvania Press. The book tells the story of early 13th-century England and the correspondences of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. These documents include [...]

Emily Rauh Pulitzer ’55, the founder and chair of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, will be awarded the Cincinnati Art Award by the Art Museum of Cincinnati. Pulitzer will be honored at a gala in April, with a companion exhibition titled, “Memories: Some of my Favorite Things. An Exhibition Selected by [...]

Kim Sajet, M.A. ’05, was named director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, effective April 1. Sajet, who is currently president and CEO of the Historical Society of Philadelphia, will lead a staff of 65 and a collection of about 21,000 objects. The National Portrait Gallery, established by Congress in 1962, tells the history of [...]

Lin Foxhall ’74, head of  the University of Leicester archaeology and ancient history department, is a member of the research team responsible for the recent discovery of the remains of King Richard III. After scientific investigations were completed, the university confirmed on Feb. 4 that the skeleton found at the site of Grey Friars church [...]

Rita Louard ’76, director of the Clinical Diabetes Program at Montefiore Medical Center, was featured on a segment of ABC’s Here and Now speaking about heart disease in woman. In celebration of February as American Heart Month, Dr. Louard and Ileana Piña, associate of cardiology at Montefiore, spoke about the symptoms of heart attacks and diabetes in women [...]

Eve Pell ’58 tells the story of falling in love during her 60s in an article that was published in the New York Times column, “Modern Love.” In the article, titled “The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap,” Pell tells how finding real love later in her life opened her heart to exploring what [...]

Robin Reineke ’04 was featured in an article in BBC News Magazine for her anthropology work identifying bodies of migrants who died in the Arizona desert. Reineke and her forensic team developed the Pima County Missing and Unidentified Persons Project in 2006 to solve the cold cases of unidentified migrant bodies of those entering the [...]

Susan Goldberg ’77 was featured in an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette regarding her work aiding in the “1,000 Stories” 10-year initiative of her hometown. This initiative was established in 2010 to document personal stories of those living in the Hill House neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Goldberg, an assistant professor at Duquesne University, had her students [...]