http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/rss_test/ Bryn Mawr Now is an online newsweekly published by the Bryn Mawr College Public Affairs Office. CLAUDIA RULEZ Bryn Mawr College When Nancy J. Vickers she steps down from the presidency of Bryn Mawr in June 2008, she will have led the college for 11 years, during which time she has presided over a $225 million capital campaign and applications to the College have increased by 40 percent. http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2007-02-08/vickers.shtml Associate Professor of Psychology Kimberly Wright Cassidy has been appointed provost-elect of the College. She will assume the duties of provost-elect on July 1, become acting provost in January 2008 and take office as provost in June 2008. http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2007-02-08/cassidy.shtml Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, hailed by The New York Times as "one of New York's most skilled and enterprising Spanish dance troupes,” will bring its fiery performance style to Goodhart Theater at 8 p.m., on Friday, Feb. 16. http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2007-02-08/flamenco.shtml Grace Lee Boggs, who embarked upon a life of political activism after earning a Ph.D. in philosophy at Bryn Mawr in 1940, will return to the College on Sunday, Feb. 11. After a film screening, she will give a talk on transforming education and inner cities http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2007-02-08/boggs.shtml Award-winning poet Linda Bierds, who has been called “our premiere verbal portraitist of the space-time continuum,” will give a public reading on Thursday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m., in the Ely Room at the Wyndham Alumnae House. http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2007-02-08/bierds.shtml http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2007-02-08/dance.shtml http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2007-02-08/monologues.shtml http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2007-02-08/tauber.shtml