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A blog about the achievements of Bryn Mawr alumnae/i, compiled by the Bryn Mawr College Public Affairs Office

Genevieve Bell ’90 recognized by South Australian Premier, Fast Company

Posted July 7, 2009

Genevieve Bell ’90, an anthropologist who serves as director of user experience for Intel Corporation’s Digital Home Group, has gathered some impressive laurels lately.

An Intel Fellow who has profoundly influenced the company’s understanding of cultural factors in the use of technology, Bell was recognized by Fast Company’s Web site in … Read more»

Lucinda Ramberg ’84 selected for Harvard Divinity School’s Women’s Studies in Religion Program

Posted June 22, 2009

Lucinda Ramberg ’84, an assistant professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, is one of five scholars who have been appointed to the Harvard Divinity School’s Women’s Studies in Religion Program, where she will be Visiting Assistant Professor of … Read more»

Ilana Diamond Rovner ’60 honored as “legal legend”

Posted June 22, 2009

Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner ’60 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit was honored by the Chicago Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society as one of five “legal legends” in 2008. During the same year, Rovner won the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the … Read more»

Cynthia Brown ’84 becomes VP of Academic Affairs at Mass. College of Liberal Arts

Posted June 3, 2009

Cynthia Brown, A.B. and M.A. ’84, has been appointed vice president of academic affairs at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, Mass.

She comes to the position from Lesley University, where she was the assistant vice president for national programs. During her 17-year tenure at Lesley, Brown also led … Read more»

Nina Jablonski ’75 elected to American Philosophical Society

Posted May 29, 2009

Nina Jablonski ’75, professor and chair of the Pennsylvania State University Department of Anthropology, has been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society, the nation’s oldest learned society.

Jablonski’s groundbreaking research on the evolution of skin color in humans has earned academic laurels as well as attention from the popular … Read more»

Suzanne Zukin ’70 wins McKnight neuroscience grant

Posted May 29, 2009

R. Suzanne Zukin ’70, the F.M. Kirby Professor of Neural Repair and Protection and director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, was one of the winners of this year’s Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience for her … Read more»

Madelon Sprengnether ’60 becomes Regents Professor at UMN

Posted March 13, 2009

Poet and critic Madelon Sprengnether ’60 has been elected to a Regents Professorship at the University of Minnesota, where she has taught English and creative writing for more than 30 years. The Regents Professorship is, according to the university, “the highest recognition for faculty who have made unique contributions to … Read more»

Book by Susan Shifrin, Ph.D. ’98, draws on “Picturing Women” project

Posted March 12, 2009

Ashgate Publishing Group has released a new book by art historian Susan Shifrin, Ph.D. ’98. Re-framing Representations of Women: Figuring, Fashioning, Portraiting and Telling in the ‘Picturing’ Women Project draws on an ambitious exhibition, education, and outreach project organized by Shifrin and co-sponsored by Bryn Mawr’s Center for Visual Culture, … Read more»

Exhibition on women’s colleges opens Monday with discussion of Bryn Mawr campus life through the decades

Posted February 27, 2009

Cover of book

The new exhibition “The Very Best Thing in a Girl’s Life”: Early Women’s Colleges in Fiction and Fact draws on the Bryn Mawr College library’s large collection of turn-of-the-century fiction about college girls, and on scrapbooks, diaries, and correspondence from some of Bryn Mawr’s earliest graduates. Read more »

Work of Daniela Holt Voith ’76 exhibited at Philadelphia’s Athanaeum

Posted February 25, 2009

Voith & MacTavish Architects (VMA), a firm co-founded by Daniela Holt Voith ’76, is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2009. In February, the Athanaeum of Philadelphia hosted an exhibition of VMA’s work, showcasing the firm’s wide range of projects, including educational facilities, performing-arts venues, religious buildings, private homes, and historic-preservation … Read more»

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