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April 21, 2011

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has recently recognized the significance of Bolman’s work by awarding her the Guggenheim Fellowship to support the completion of a book on the 6th-century Egyptian Red Monastery, which her work has revealed as a major monument.
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April 21, 2011

Mary E. “Mel” McCombie has been has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach and conduct research at the American University in Cairo for the 2011-12 academic year. She is the first such scholar in this position with a background in visual culture and art history. McCombie’s research project compares advertising for products aimed […]
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April 21, 2011

The Milwaukee Art Museum has named William Keyse Rudolph, Ph.D. ’03, as its new curator of American art and decorative arts. Since 2009, Rudolph served as the curator of American art at the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Mass. Prior to that, he was the associate curator of American art at the Dallas Museum of […]
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April 21, 2011

Mary Rorro ’91 has been asked to perform solo viola selections at the V-E Day ceremony on May 8 at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. The event will be attended by U.S. veterans, at least 60 Holocaust survivors, and some members of the British Parliament. Rorro, a staff psychiatrist practicing at […]
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April 21, 2011

Human Genome Sciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical corporation that uses the human DNA sequence to develop protein and antibody drugs, announced in March that George Morrow, M.A. ’77, had been appointed to the HGS Board of Directors. Until January 2011, Morrow served as executive vice president for global commercial operations for Amgen, Inc., leading all of […]
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April 14, 2011

As was reported back in February in Bryn Mawr Now, trustee Susan MacLaurin ’84 was part of a group that scaled Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise funds in support of CARE Canada. The group summitted as planned on the 8th of March, the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. MacLaurin and the 16 other climbers raised […]
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April 14, 2011

Historian and Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust ’68 has been selected to deliver the 2011 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, characterized by the National Endowment for the Humanities as “the most prestigious honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.” Faust will give the lecture, titled “Telling War Stories: Reflections […]
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April 6, 2011

Zvezdelina Stankova ’92, a professor of mathematics at Mills College and the University of California, Berkeley, was one of three university math teachers to receive the 2011 Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award. Read more »