Faculty Research & Scholarship
Since its founding in 1885, Bryn Mawr College has maintained its character as a small residential community fostering rewarding working relationships between faculty and students.
Advancing Knowledge Across Disciplines
From pioneering studies in the sciences to critical explorations in the humanities and social sciences, the research done by Bryn Mawr's faculty advances knowledge, inspires students, shapes scholarly debates, and impacts the world around us.
STEM Scholarship Humanities Scholarship Social Science Scholarship
Spotlight: Xuemei Cheng: From Semiconductors to Spintronics and Quantum Computing
Cheng joined the faculty of Bryn Mawr College in 2009. Her research career has culminated in a $5 million National Science Foundation Grant for establishing a Research and Education Center for Quantum Materials and Sensing at Bryn Mawr. In addition to continuing her research in nanomaterials, her professorship at Bryn Mawr has provided her with great opportunities to educate the next generation of women interested in the sciences.
Featured STEM Scholarship
Spotlight: Homay King Investigates Modern Culture through Media
King’s work speaks to her passion for investigating through a theoretical framework of modern culture as captured in films, digital media, contemporary art, ads, and even architecture. “I’ve always been interested in the social dimension, the cultural dimension of works of art,” she says.
Featured Humanities Scholarship
Spotlight: Joel Schlosser Rethinks the Future of Democracy and Ecology
Scholsser's book, Earthborn Democracy, is an attempt to envision what a sustainable democracy might look like. A democracy that both motivates people to participate in it and one that solves the problem of declining commitment to democratic values and practices, all while responding to the ecological climate crisis currently unfolding.
