Centers, Institutes, and Projects
Bryn Mawr College is home to a vibrant ecosystem of interdisciplinary centers and research initiatives that enrich academic life and support intellectual exploration. From the visual and performing arts to language immersion, teaching innovation, and social impact, our programs provide students and faculty with opportunities to engage deeply in scholarship, public dialogue, and transformative learning.
Announcing Two New Research Initiatives in 2025
The QMSEC Center
Advancing quantum information science and engineering (QISE) through collaborative research, transformative education, and supportive mentorship.
Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future
This project brings scholars, educators, religious leaders, journalists and students together to advance research about what we are calling the spiritual infrastructure of the future.
Full Listing of Centers, Institutes, and Projects
Center for Social Sciences
The Center's goals are twofold: 1) to raise the academic and intellectual visibility of the social sciences at Bryn Mawr and in the broader community; and 2) to build collaborative relationships among social science faculty and students.
Center for Visual Culture
As one of the College’s original Centers for 21st-Century Inquiry, we build on the traditions in art and archeological study at the College while supporting inquiry and exploration into modern visual expression.
The Flexner Lectureship
Established in honor of Mary Flexner, a Bryn Mawr graduate of the class of 1895, the Lectureship has brought some of the world’s best-known humanists to campus for a brief residency.
Institut d'Avignon
Based in the medieval city of Avignon, in Provence, in the south of France, this is a six-week intensive summer program in advanced French and Francophone studies, and in Theater studies, for undergraduate and graduate students.
The QMSEC Center
Advancing quantum information science and engineering (QISE) through collaborative research, transformative education, and supportive mentorship.
Social Justice Initiative
The mission is to co-create space and time for dialogue, reflection, relationship-building, and action to dismantle unjust systems, honoring our inherent interconnections and interdependencies.
Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future
How are religious and spiritual changes happening in the United States today? What are the institutions through which spirituality, religion and broader approaches to meaning making are and will continue to be taught, learned and passed across generations?
Teaching and Learning Institute
Funded originally by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and now supported jointly by Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, the Teaching and Learning Institute (TLI) embraces a partnership model of faculty and student academic development