Listen: Susan Stanford Friedman '65 on "Cosmopolitanism in Transnational Literary Studies"
February 23rd, 2015
Friedman discusses religion, secularism, and migration in a keynote address at an international conference for transnational literature and translation.
Life in the Sea Is Getting Bigger All the Time
February 20th, 2015
Statistician Steve C. Wang co-authored a new study that shows over the past 542 million years, the mean size of marine animals has increased 150-fold.
Collaboration Gives Voice to Civil Rights Movement at Swarthmore
February 2nd, 2015
Led by historian Allison Dorsey and in time for Black History Month, a team of students, staff, and alumni created a digital archive that re-frames the narrative through the lens of the era's key figures.
Natalia Sucher '16 Presents Her Research at National Classics Conference
December 22nd, 2014
Sucher earned raves for her exploration of Cy Twombly’s Fifty Days At Iliam at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.
Local Schoolteachers Invited to Swarthmore as Students
December 15th, 2014
Directed by professor Lisa Smulyan '76, the Teachers as Scholars program provides teachers with lifelong learning and strengthens the College's ties to the community.
Vigil and Photo Exhibition Raise Awareness About Missing Mexican Students
December 12th, 2014
Organizers Uriel Medina '15 (left) and Alejandra Barajas '15 say they wanted to "give the issue visibility" and to "impact students on a personal level."
Professor of Linguistics Donna Jo Napoli Receives National Honor
December 9th, 2014
The Linguistics Society of America will induct Napoli as a fellow next month to recognize the depth and breadth of her contributions to the field.
Educational Studies Professor Edwin Mayorga Reflects on "Teaching in the Time of Ferguson"
December 8th, 2014
Mayorga, who teaches classes on urban education, stresses the need to "teach with our humanity at the center."
Board of Managers Commits $12 Million to Ensure Highest Ever Standard of Sustainable Campus Construction
December 6th, 2014
The sum will ensure the new Biology, Engineering, Psychology building serves as a model for environmentally intelligent construction practices.
Watch: The Science of Communication
November 26th, 2014
First-year physics students learn improvisational theater techniques to better communicate scientific findings.
Grappling with the Unknown
November 19th, 2014
Teamwork in Swarthmore's plasma physics lab leads to learning opportunities for both students and faculty.
Psychology Major Alexander Noyes '15 to Present Research in Budapest
November 14th, 2014
Noyes' results hold implications for understanding both how children acquire the ability to reason scientifically and how they come to value and understand different group identity markers.
Watch: Uma Nagendra '09 Dances Her Doctoral Biology Research to First Place
November 12th, 2014
Nagendra teamed up with fellow aerialists in response to a contest that challenges scientists to explain their Ph.D. research in the most jargon-free medium of all: dance.
Students Canvass Polling Stations on Election Day in Lang-Center Funded Statistics Project
November 6th, 2014
"I want students to see the power of statistics and how it can be used to answer relevant societal questions," says Assistant Professor of Statistics Kelly McConville about the project.
