The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, has named Maud Walsh ’75 the 2008 Louisiana Professor of the Year. Walsh, an associate professor in the School of Plant, Environmental & Soil Sciences, was selected from nearly 300 professors in the United States. She was nominated in recognition of her excellent contributions to undergraduate education.

Last fall, the American Cancer Society bestowed its highest award, the ACS Medal of Honor, on four Americans: a lawmaker (U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy), a philanthropist (Jon M. Huntsman, founder and chair of the Huntsman Corporation), and two scientists. The scientists—Berkeley National Laboratory’s Mina Jahan Bissell and Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s Susan Band Horwitz—are […]

Saskia Subramanian ’88, the vice-president-elect of the Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Association and a research sociologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, has joined forces with a colleague to publish After the Cure: the Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors. The book delves into the post-treatment symptoms caused by radiation, chemotherapy and surgery, “giving […]

“Love and Class in Connecticut,” a film by Susan Cinoman ’83 and her husband Doug Tenaglia, won the award for best narrative short at the New England Film and Video Festival last summer and was an official selection of the Berkshire Film Festival. “Love and Class” is based on a play written by Cinoman, who […]

After a 30-year career in environmental consulting, Mara Feeney  ’73 has published her first novel, Rankin Inlet. The novel is set in a small Inuit community on the west coast of the Hudson Bay and covers a century of social, economic and political change that have transformed the area and its people. “I never would […]