For most of the students in Brook Lillehaugen’s Introduction to Linguistics class, the final project meant a term paper. But when the professor offered the option of a creative project in lieu of an essay, Kyra Neiman ’17 picked up her needle and thread.

For nearly a quarter century, Magee has worked to bring understanding and attention to the Arabian Peninsula, a vast area that takes in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait. Magee took Bryn Mawr students on a four-week field study to excavate at Tell Abraq in the UAE.

The Bryn Mawr Chemistry program is designed to emphasize the cohesiveness of the discipline and give students a sound background in both theoretical and practical aspects of its four main fields: organic chemistry, physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and biological chemistry.

Directed by a woman, the first feature-length animated film has long been neglected in U.S. histories of film. With her dissertation research, Katherine Rochester, M.A. ’12, is aiming to write the Weimar-era director, Lotte Reiniger, back into the history books.

The liberal arts focus and smaller class sizes on the Bryn Mawr campus make it an ideal environment for graduate students to mentor and collaborate with undergrads on academic research, especially on lab work in chemistry and physics.

A reading and book-signing with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose work has been described as “mysterious but utterly lucid,” “pristinely beautiful." Free and open to the public. Mar 4 at 7:30pm in Goodhart Music Room.

Bryn Mawr’s first-ever Show Your Colors night saw fans coming out in force to cheer on the home team as Owls basketball took on Valley Forge.

Bryn Mawr is often ranked among the most beautiful college campuses in the United States. Designed by Fredrick Law Olmsted, Bryn Mawr is a mixture of stately Collegiate Gothic architecture, a few modern buildings, expansive greens, and formal plantings.

This Chi Wara dance crest and headdress from Mali is featured in Backtalk, an exhibition co-sponsored by Special Collections and Africana Studies. Drawn from Bryn Mawr’s African Art Collection, Backtalk asks what the collection includes and leaves out, clarifies and obscures.

The dark complexity of Gyorgy Ligeti’s Quartet No. 1 combines with the sprightliness of Beethoven’s Quartet in G Major opus 18 and the lush sonority of Dvorak’s Quartet No. 13 in G Major in a concert of emotionally resonant works. Feb 27 at 8pm in Thomas Great Hall.