Bryn Mawr College

Inauguration: Schedule of Events

Friday, Oct. 3, 2008

Celebrating Community: Picnic, Performances, and Dancing

• 5 to 7:30 p.m. Picnic, Merion Green. Including jugglers, magician, student performing groups, face painters, caricaturists, balloon artists, and henna-tattoo artist
• 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Music and Dancing, Thomas Great Hall. Featuring Swing Connections, the Bob Butryn Orchestra, FuZion Creative Dance Company, and DJs Nelson Miranda and Nikki Lopez ’10. Motown, Salsa, Swing, Bhangra, Hip-hop, and more!

Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008

Celebrating History: Campus Architecture and Special Collections Tours

10 to 11 a.m., departing from the Benham Gateway Building

• The Architectural Tour: Planning the Bryn Mawr Campus
• The Collections Tour: Bryn Mawr’s (Secret) Treasures

Celebrating Achievement: Bryn Mawr in the World

11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Faculty-student collaborators present the impact of their work on research, communities, and policy.

• Panel One: Thomas 110
  • Basic Research and Developing New Therapeutics with Associate Professor of Chemistry Bill Malachowski, Sarah Tibi '09 and Tu-Anh Vu '09
  and
  • Research and Public Policy with Professor of Sociology Mary Osirim, Joanna Pinto-Coelho '09, Visiting Professor of Social Work Sandy Schram and Linda Houser, GSSWSR doctoral candidate
• Panel Two: Carpenter 21
  • Interdisciplinary Insights into Early Arabian Civilization with Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Peter Magee, Emily Hammer '06 and Amber Zambelli '09
  and
  • Environmental Studies, Environmental Activism Associate Professor of Geology Don Barber and Emily McGlynn '09
• Panel Three: Thomas 224
  • The Arts as Social Engagement with Associate Director of Dance Mady Cantor, Lucy Edwards '08 and Adaobi Kanu '08
  and
  • Indigenous Perspectives and Early Modern History With Associate Professor of History Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Jennifer Lynch '09 and Anna Shatz '09

Celebrating Leadership: The Inauguration of Jane Dammen McAuliffe

3 p.m., Merion Green.

Remarks by Johnnetta Betsch Cole, President Emeritus of Spelman College and of Bennett College for Women. Tickets are not required. The ceremony will be webcast as it happens.

Reception

Immediately following the ceremony, Thomas Green and Great Hall.