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Frank Wu, an authority on the history of civil-rights law and the Asian-American experience, will speak at Bryn Mawr on Tuesday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Thomas Great Hall. |
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Acclaimed author Caryl Phillips, whose oeuvre Time magazine has called "one of literature's great meditations on race and identity," will read from new work on Tuesday, March 6, at 8 p.m. in Goodhart Music Room. The event is free and open to the public. |
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The renowned University of Chicago sociologist Saskia Sassen will deliver the inaugural lecture, titled "Strategic Gendering and the Feminizing of Survival," at 7:30 p.m. in Dalton 300. |
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Bryn Mawr students have accompanied the College's archaeology faculty to excavation sites since the College's early days, but the new program represents the College's first training program in field skills offered for academic credit. |
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Historian Drew Gilpin Faust '68 will shatter one of America's oldest glass ceilings when she becomes the first woman to lead Harvard University in the school's 371-year history. Her appointment as president was unanimously approved by Harvard's Board of Overseers on Sunday, Feb. 11. |
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Harvard University President-Elect Drew Gilpin Faust '68 is not the first Bryn Mawr woman to prise open doors of opportunity at Harvard. The first tenured female faculty member at Harvard, the first female curator at the Fogg Museum, and the first woman to edit the Harvard Business Review are among her predecessors. |
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At the gala celebration of the launch of the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center in Philadelphia in September, videographers recorded the awards ceremony at which Lauren Bacall and Blythe Danner received the first Katharine Hepburn Medals. Excerpts from the ceremony are now available for download. |
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