On Campus: Bakeoff Winners, Med-School Deans Discuss Admissions, Whiting Fellows Present

Bryn Thompson displays evidence of the English Department's culinary prowess

Bryn Mawr Bakeoff Results. Looking for the best departmental potluck to crash? The English Department is a good bet — it took the top two places in the apple-pie category in the Bryn Mawr Bakeoff, held Wednesday, Sept. 13, at the "County Fair" sponsored by President Nancy J. Vickers. The Library, the President's Office and Admissions also produced commendable comestibles, and a pair of undergraduates took a prize as well. The winners:

Apple pie category:

1st place: English Department Secretary Bryn Thompson
2nd place: Assistant Professor of English Kate Thomas
3rd place: Undergraduate Admissions Receptionist Ruth Davies

Brownie category:

1st place: Visual Collections Specialist Barbara Ward Grubb
2nd Place: President's Office Administrative Assistant Marge Pyle
3rd place: Rachel Freeland '07 and Kristina Durante '07

Wyndham Dining Room Manger Willie Mae Taylor, Chef Bob Hudoka, and Assistant Chefs Dave Woodruff and Mark Cugini judged the competition.

Med School Admissions Deans Tell All. On Saturday, Sept. 16, the Office of Health Professions Advising will host premed students from around the Delaware Valley at a panel discussion of the medical-school application process. The deans of admissions from the Drexel University College of Medicine, the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the Yale University School of Medicine will sit on the panel. The event is open to all Tri-Co students, and more than 125 students from outside the Tri-Co community plan to attend as well. The discussion will take place in Thomas Great Hall from 2 to 4 p.m.

New Dissertation Research in the Humanities from the Whiting Fellows. Bryn Mawr's 2006-07 Whiting Fellows, outstanding students in the humanities who are near completion of their Ph.D.s, will give brief reports on the dissertation projects for which they won the fellowships next Wednesday, Sept. 20, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Carpenter B20. All members of the community are invited to attend the presentations and the reception that follows. The fellows will make their presentations as follows:

5:30 p.m. — Jennifer Bird (History of Art), will present "Curiosity and the Ideal: Anatomical Investigation and the Gendered Imagination in 16th-Century Florentine Art"

5:50 p.m. — Valeryia Kozlovskaya (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology) will present "Ancient Harbors of the North-Western Black Sea Coast"

6:10 p.m. — Zlatan Gruborovic (History of Art) will present "Bronzino and the Style(s) of Mannerism."

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