Flipping the Script
April 29th, 2015
Emma Madarasz ’15 and six classmates reflect on their Swarthmore experience from all angles, offering wisdom to future Swatties.
Olivia Mendelson '16 Wins Beinecke Scholarship
April 29th, 2015
Mendelson, one of 20 recipients from around the country, will receive $34,000 toward her pursuit of a Ph.D. in modern/contemporary Chinese art history.
Q&A with Fellowships & Prizes Advisor Melissa Mandos
April 27th, 2015
Introducing Fellowships & Prizes Week, Mandos discusses the highlights and challenges of helping Swarthmore students to have their academic and community service efforts rewarded nationally.
Film & Media Studies Professor Patricia White Explores Global Women's Filmmaking in New Book
April 22nd, 2015
In Women's Cinema, World Cinema, White highlights the work of a new generation of young directors and explores "what kinds of stories get told by and about women directors."
Louis Lainé ’16 Wins Truman Scholarship
April 20th, 2015
One of just 58 winners across the U.S., the political science major receives $30,000 for graduate school among an array of professional development opportunities.
Biologist Nick Kaplinsky Gets Creative in Bid to Enhance Laboratory
April 17th, 2015
With help from colleagues in physics and ITS, Kaplinsky built custom microscopes from the parts of obsolete DNA sequencers for his plant biology lab.
Sense of Smell May Reveal Weight Bias
April 13th, 2015
A new study co-authored by psychologist Andrew Ward suggests that a person's sense of smell may reveal a weight bias, one that is likely more pervasive than previously believed.
Mellon Creative Residencies Program Enriches Tri-Co Community
April 10th, 2015
"I worked with colleagues in anthropology, art, French, history, and music whom I hadn't had the chance to discuss ideas with before in such depth," says Film & Media Studies chair Patricia White.
A Taste of Culture
April 8th, 2015
Renowned chef Valerie Erwin helps a group of students, staff, and faculty prepare a Low Country feast as part of historian Allison Dorsey's Africa in America: Gullah/Geechee Life and Culture class.
Q&A with Associate Professor of English Literature Rachel Buurma '99
April 8th, 2015
On the eve of the 5th annual Re:Humanities conference, Buurma discusses digital humanities and how the approach helps students.
Watson Fellowship Sends Mayra Tenorio '15 on "Inherently Personal" Journey
March 18th, 2015
The sociology & anthropology major from Beach Park, Ill., will travel to five countries next year to hear and be inspired by women's stories of survival.
Listen: Timothy Burke on "The Perils of Imagination: Why Historians Don't Like Counterfactuals"
March 13th, 2015
Burke says the discussion of counterfactuals illustrates history's uneasy location in the borderlands between the social sciences and the humanities.
Political Scientist Rick Valelly '75 on Birth of a Nation and the Civil Rights Movement
March 12th, 2015
In contrast to the narrative presented in the 100-year old racist film, Valelly argues that Reconstruction was "a great democratic revolution."
Economist Amanda Bayer Collaborates with Federal Reserve on Diversity in Economics
March 4th, 2015
Bayer describes the inaugural summit as "a landmark event" with potentially substantial consequences for economic knowledge and policy making.
