Luck Be A Lady This Weekend for Guys and Dolls Production
October 31st, 2014
A collaboration between faculty, staff, and students, including conductor Audrey Edelstein '15, brings the classic musical to life during Garnet Weekend.
Swarthmore Sumo Robots Secure First Place in Local Competition
October 27th, 2014
The winning team beat out 11 competitors at a double-elimination tournament hosted by the Philadelphia chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Listen: Psychologist Barry Schwartz on "Why? Some Puzzles of Motivation"
October 22nd, 2014
Schwartz, who explores the social and psychological effects of free-market economic institutions on moral, social, and civic concerns, discusses intrinsic and extrinsic motivation as part of the Second Tuesday Social Sciences Cafe lecture series.
Q&A on Media Fandom with Associate Professor Bob Rehak
October 16th, 2014
From Comic-Con, video games, and the Batmobile, Rehak examines fan culture through the things people use to announce their affiliations and connect to communities of fellow fans.
Associate Professor of English Literature Jill Gladstein Leads Creation of Writing Program Database
October 10th, 2014
The College received a grant for the collaborative project, which includes Leo Rayfiel ’15 and Diondra Straiton ’16 and faculty from two other institutions.
Hanna King ’15 Places Second in National Book Collecting Contest
October 3rd, 2014
A passionate reader and writer of Yiddish, the history major will receive an award and tour the rare books collection at the Library of Congress later this month.
With Talking Dictionaries and Video Translations, K. David Harrison Works to Preserve Endangered Languages
October 1st, 2014
“By learning about such far-flung and remote cultures, we may learn to value them and perhaps contribute to their survival,” says Harrison.
Classics Department Guides Students along Career Path
September 29th, 2014
A recent gathering featured alumni, including Mali Skotheim ’05, and current students exchanging insights on Classics’ dynamism and array of opportunities around the world.
New Study Traces Evolution of Birds from Dinosaurs
September 25th, 2014
Statistician Steve C. Wang invented a novel method to use new kinds of data from the fossil record to show that early birds had a high rate of evolution.
Interdisciplinary Study Examines Federal Reserve Thinking Prior to 2008 Financial Crisis
September 24th, 2014
"We brought our own specialties to the table, but the whole ended up being greater than the sum of its parts,” says political scientist Ayse Kaya on the study, which also included economist Stephen Golub, sociologist Michael Reay, and two students.
Listen: Cooper Series Begins with Exploration of Brown v. Board of Education Legacy
September 23rd, 2014
“That ruling had many effects and many legacies," says sociologist Nina Johnson, "but we find ourselves 60 years later with segregated schools, so the question is ‘where are we, what do we need to do from here?’”
Listen: Political Scientist Dominic Tierney on "A World on Fire: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Global Order"
September 19th, 2014
Tierney opened the Second Tuesday Social Sciences Cafe series with a discussion of President Obama's handling of the crises taking place in Ukraine, Gaza, Syria, and Iraq.
Watch: Historian Tara Zahra '98 Named 2014 MacArthur Fellow
September 17th, 2014
Zahra is recognized as "a historian who is challenging the way we view the development of the concepts of nation, family, and ethnicity and painting a more integrative picture of 20th-century European history.”
Second Tuesday Social Science Cafe Lecture Series Kicks Off
September 8th, 2014
The new series, which begins Tues., Sept. 9, will be convened by Assistant Professor of Economics Erin Bronchetti and will focus on topics such as the Obama Doctrine and public education.
Watch: College Founder Lucretia Mott Profiled in New Doc Series
August 27th, 2014
FHL Curator Christopher Densmore (left) and author Jamie Steihm '82 discuss Mott's legacy as "Philadelphia's revolutionary" in The Women of Philadelphia: A Documentary.
