Bryn Mawr College News

As the subject of our first profile we spoke with Salima Ikram, Professor of Egyptology, who has been with AUC in various capacities since 1995.

Lori Levite Whitman of Skippack, Pa., and Stan Whitman of Holland, Pa., announce the engagement of their daughter, Stacey Sarah Whitman, to Daniel Jacob Gerstenblith, son of Miriam and Jay Gerstenblith of Pikesville, Md.

It was 8 a.m. on a Monday - a dreaded hour for students - and Montgomery College professor Susan Bontems was reviewing vapor pressure charts for an upcoming quiz with Chemistry 101 students at the Germantown campus.

I just spent 90 minutes watching the web rebroadcast of "Inside the Admissions Office," a conversation with top admissions officers from eight highly regarded colleges and universities: Bryn Mawr College , Grinnell College , Marquette University , Princeton University , University of Pennsylvania , University of Vermont , Wesleyan University and ...

PPL Corporation announced Tuesday that a retired executive with more than three decades of financial services experience has been named to the company's board of directors.

Posted by Arleen Zimmerle on November 30, 2009 at 3:21 PM Posted in Bryn Mawr , Events , Haverford , Swarthmore Celebrated Dominican-American author Julia Alvarez , best known for her fictional works How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflie s , will be joined by chamber musicians L'Ensemble for a night of words and ...

Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 2:07 a.m. Peggy Peattie / Union-Tribune Elli Choi is a typical second-grader at La Jolla Country Day School during the week.

For parents who have to face a child's cancer diagnosis, Lynn Hardesty is an unexpected but welcome advocate.

Participants from 16 peace activists groups depart on the Fourth Annual Walk for Nonviolence, sponsored primarily by the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance.

Tristesse Jones will probably never drive a tractor or guide a combine through rows of soybeans at harvest time.

The state House of Representatives may soon send a warning to parents: Keep your kids in school or risk going to jail.

President Barack Obama is steering some tourism trade and international attention to his native Hawaii in a couple of years.

Southbridge town officials Catherine Nikolla, Wilfrid Cournoyer and Mark Morin listen to Greater New Bedford Industrial Foundation Executive Director Thomas Davis talk about the turn-around his city's industrial park has seen in the last decade.

Southbridge's Scott Benoit, vice president of the Grand Trunk Trailblazers, talks to Craig Della Penna before the latter's talk in Brimfield last week.

Recipients of merit-based PROMISE scholarships stay in West Virginia at a lower rate than the average in-state college graduate, a new report shows.

When Sharhea Wade arrived at Bryn Mawr College from a big-city high school, it seemed as if every other student on the quiet, leafy campus had graduated from an exclusive private school.

10, 2009----Prof. Larry Temkin of Rutgers University delivered the University of Delaware Department of Philosophy's annual David Norton Memorial Lecture Saturday afternoon, Nov.

Meet the Federal Player of the Week , Katherine B. Gebbie. Position: Director, Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology Age: 79 Location: Bethesda, Md.

J. Karma Boutique : Special November Deals For the entire month of November, bring in your gently used work-appropriate shoes and handbags to this Old City accessories boutique and they'll donate them to The Career Wardrobe - and you'll get between $10 and $20 off your next purchase.

The busy scientist was about to leave a conference in Washington for his native Hungary when he was buttonholed by a persistent Main Line mother worried about her son's health.