News

• Faculty Members Across Several Disciplines Receive Grants, Awards

  Category: Faculty Spotlight
  

• Swarthmore Welcomes New Faculty, Head Coaches to Campus

  Category: Faculty Spotlight
  

• Swarthmore Faculty Earn Numerous Grants and Awards During Fall Semester

  Category: Faculty Spotlight
  

• Swarthmore Bids Farewell to 10 Retiring Faculty Members

  

• Honors Program Adapts and Thrives in Virtual Environment

  Category: Meaningful Opportunities
  

• Fifteen Faculty Across the Disciplines Recognized with Tenure, Promotions

  Category: Faculty Spotlight
  

• Post-Election Reflections

• Marcella Nunez-Smith ’96 Named Co-Chair Of COVID-19 Task Force

  Category: Alumni Spotlight
  

• 13 Faculty Begin Tenure-Track, Three-Year Appointments

  Category: Faculty Spotlight
  

• Faculty and Staff Donate Equipment to Alumni on COVID-19 Front Lines

  Category: Local Impact
  
• Leaning into the Liberal Arts

  Category: Liberal Arts

• Garnet Forward Nate Shafer ’20 Builds Connection with Local Kindergarten Class

  Category: Local Impact
  

• Three Faculty Members Appointed to Endowed Chairs

  Category: Faculty Spotlight
  

• Listen: Psychologist Jessica Schleider ’12 on Youth Mental Health Interventions

  

• Ambitious Original Opera ‘Cassandra’ Offers Timely Message of Truth and Resistance

  Category: Performing Arts
  

• Ten Faculty Begin Tenure-Track, Three-Year Appointments

  Category: Faculty Spotlight
  

• How to Engineer a Better Stormwater Runoff System and Improve the Environment at the Same Time

  Category: Interdisciplinary
  

• Omri Gal ’19 Teams With Philadelphia Union to Help Chester Youth

  Category: Local Impact
  

• Faculty Share Experiences at 12@25 Symposium

  Category: Watch
  

• Patricia Park ’03 Reads From Her Upcoming Novel

  Category: Listen
  

• Why Swarthmore?

  Category: Watch
  
• Lang Family Honors Swarthmore Women in STEM by Naming New Building for Maxine Frank Singer '52, H'78

  Category: Vital Spaces

• ‘Our Food’ Garden Connects Students and Community Members to Larger Food Systems

  Category: Hands-On Learning
  

• National Society of Black Engineers' Swarthmore Chapter Cultivates Community, Grows Representation

  Category: Inclusive Community
  

• Promotions Recognize Faculty Across the Disciplines

  Category: Scholar Spotlight
  

• Student, Recent Alumna Honored for Research Posters

  Category: Academic Excellence
  

• Swarthmore Delegation Heads to International Climate Negotiations

  Category: Global Impact
  

• A New Place for Making Connections

  Category: Vital Spaces
  

• Psychologist Cat Norris on the Good and Bad of Ambivalence

  Category: Listen

• 16 Faculty Begin Tenure-Track, Three-Year Appointments

  Category: Faculty News
  

• Ten Faculty Across the Disciplines Recognized with Tenure, Promotions

  Category: Scholar Spotlight
  

• Psychologist Cat Norris and Dan Creem '16 Link Meditation With Cognitive Improvement

  Category: Student-Faculty Collaboration
  

• Ten Recent Alumni Receive Fulbright Grants

  Category: Scholar Spotlight
  

• Psychologist Stella Christie on Why We Must Fail

  Category: Listen
  

• A Roman Battle, Then a Classics Lesson

  Category: Hands-On Learning
  

• Listen: Educator Erin Corbett '99 on Deconstructing the Prison Recidivism Paradigm

  

• Swarthmore Receives Construction Excellence Award for Whittier Hall

  

• Construction Projects Foster Community, Active Learning

  

• Geneticist Dawn Carone Awarded $150,000 Grant to Research Uncontrolled Growth in Cancer Cells

  

• Designing an Experience

  

• Neuroscientist Tedi Asher '05 Shapes How People View Art

  

• 12 Alumni Receive NSF Graduate Fellowships

  

• Listen: Lang Scholars Share Their Community Projects

  

• Entrepreneur Jeremy Schifeling '03 Charts Path from Liberal Arts to Tech

  

• Aziz Anderson ’17 Receives Watson Fellowship

  

• Promotions Recognize Faculty Across the Disciplines

  

• Faculty Offer Post-Election Thoughts

  

• Madeline Ross '13 Traces Her Path from Swarthmore to the Air Force

  

• Brittni Teresi '19 Calls on Presidential Nominees to Focus on What Matters Most During Debate

  

• Listen: Psychologist Stella Christie on "Learning by Comparison"

  

• Five Faculty Members Recently Appointed to Endowed Professorships

  

• New Study Confirms Adage that with Age Comes Wisdom

  

• ICYMI: Top 17 Web Stories of the Year

  

• Swarthmore Team Striving to Align Behavioral Economics with Public Policy

  

• Watch: Reflecting on the Classroom, the College

  

• Swarthmore Students Win Innovation Marketplace Challenge

  

• Watch: Sonia Vallabh '06 and the Quest for a Cure

  

• Watch: Colleagues, Students Honor Psychologist Barry Schwartz

  

• Designer Valerie Casey '94 Recognized as Tech Titan on International Women's Day

  

• Two Alums Named to Forbes "30 Under 30"

  

• Youth Educator Haydil Henriquez '14 on DreamYard Prep

  

• Community Members Offer Advice to Class of 2019

  Category: Watch
  

• Psychologist Barry Schwartz Reimagines Work

  

• Elevating Virtue

  

• Listen: Psychologist Stella Christie on Development of Language and Thought

  

• Flipping the Script

  

• Watch: My Favorite Place

  

• Sense of Smell May Reveal Weight Bias

  

• Going Deep

  

• Peripeteia Asks, "What Is Perfection?"

  

• Board of Managers Commits $12 Million to Ensure Highest Ever Standard of Sustainable Campus Construction

  

• Psychology Major Alexander Noyes '15 to Present Research in Budapest

  

• Listen: Psychologist Barry Schwartz on "Why? Some Puzzles of Motivation"

  

• Exploring Liberal Arts Careers

  

• Sabrina Stevens '07 Recognized for Education Reform Advocacy

  

• Psychologist and TED All-Star Barry Schwartz Speaks at TED2014 Conference

  

• Tenure and Promotions for Eight Faculty Members

  

• Kimberly Wright Cassidy '85 Named President of Bryn Mawr College

  

• Swarthmore Produces Most Social Sciences Doctorate Recipients in the Nation

  

• Morgan Williams '14 Explores the Empire State Building's Shelf Life

  

• Take Your Best Shot

  

• Discovering Why the Future Sometimes Feels Closer Than the Past

  

• Psychologist Barry Schwartz Offers "Life Skills Your Mother Never Taught You"

  

• Listen: Frank Durgin: On Perception

  

• Swat Alums, Professors Respond to 2012 Election

  

• Writer Maki Somosot '12 Says Filipino Americans Ready to Exert Influence in Presidential Election

  

• Four Symposia Ask: Why Are Good People Divided by Politics and Religion?

  

• Psychologist Barry Schwartz Asserts Importance of Liberal Arts Education