Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College is a private women's liberal arts college founded in 1885. The phrase {{lang|cy|bryn mawr}} literally means 'large hill' in Welsh.{{efn|Not 'high hill', as is often mistakenly given as the translation; {{lang|cy|Bryn Uchel}} translates to 'high hill'}} The Graduate School is co-educational. It is named after the town of Bryn Mawr, in which the campus is located, which had been renamed by a representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Bryn Mawr was the name of an area estate granted to Rowland Ellis by William Penn in the 1680s. Ellis's former home, also called Bryn Mawr, was a house near Dolgellau, Merioneth, Gwynedd, Wales. The college was largely funded through the bequest of Joseph W. Taylor, and its first president was James Rhoads. Bryn Mawr was one of the first institutions of higher education in the United States to offer graduate degrees, including doctorates, to women. The first class included 36 undergraduate women and eight graduate students. Bryn Mawr was originally affiliated with the Quakers (Religious Society of Friends), but by 1893 had become non-denominational.

In 1912, Bryn Mawr became the first college in the United States to offer doctorates in social work, through the Department of Social Economy and Social Research. This department became the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research in 1970. In 1931, Bryn Mawr began accepting men as graduate students, while remaining women-focused at the undergraduate level.

From 1921 to 1938 the Bryn Mawr campus was home to the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, which was founded as part of the labor education movement and the women's labor movement. The school taught political economy, science, and literature.

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The college celebrated its 125th anniversary of "bold vision, for women, for the world" during the 2010–2011 academic year.{{cite web

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}} Other festivities held for the anniversary year included publication of a commemorative book on 125 years of student life,

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}} and, in partnership with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, the creation of a mural in West Philadelphia highlighting advances in women's education.{{cite web

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On February 9, 2015, the college's board of trustees announced approval of a working group recommendation to expand the undergraduate applicant pool allowing transgender women and intersex individuals identifying as women to apply for admission.{{cite web |url=http://news.brynmawr.edu/2015/02/09/a-letter-from-bryn-mawr-board-chair-arlene-gibson/ |title=A Letter from Bryn Mawr Board Chair Arlene Gibson |website=Bryn Mawr College |access-date=10 February 2015 |date=February 9, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210212911/http://news.brynmawr.edu/2015/02/09/a-letter-from-bryn-mawr-board-chair-arlene-gibson/ |archive-date= 10 February 2015 }} This decision made Bryn Mawr the fourth women's college in the United States to accept trans women.{{cite news |title=Bryn Mawr Becomes Fourth U.S. Women's College to Accept Transgender Students |author=Mitch Kellaway |url=http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/02/11/bryn-mawr-becomes-fourth-us-womens-college-accept-transgender-studen |work=The Advocate |date=11 February 2015 |access-date=12 February 2015}} Bryn Mawr "recognizes that gender is fluid and that traditional notions of gender identity and expression can be limiting", and has the official policy of accepting nonbinary students who were assigned female at birth as well. All current, past, and future students are fully recognized as members of the Bryn Mawr community, regardless of current gender identity.{{Cite web |title=Transgender Applicants |url=https://www.brynmawr.edu/admissions-aid/admissions-aid-policies/transgender-applicants#:~:text=In%20light%20of%20our%20mission,identify%20as%20male,%20individuals%20assigned |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=Bryn Mawr College }}

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• 1885–1894 James Rhoads{{cite web |url=http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/inauguration/rhoads.html |title=James E. Rhoads |website=Bryn Mawr College |access-date=2011-06-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013230417/http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/inauguration/rhoads.html |archive-date= Oct 13, 2011 }}
• 1894–1922 M. Carey Thomas
• 1922–1942 Marion Edwards Park
• 1942–1970 Katharine Elizabeth McBride
• 1970–1978 Harris Wofford
• 1978–1997 Mary Patterson McPherson
• 1997–2008 Nancy J. Vickers
• 2008–2013 Jane Dammen McAuliffe
• 2013–2024 Kimberly Wright Cassidy
• 2024–present Wendy Cadge

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The campus is in the municipality of Lower Merion Township.{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st42_pa/cousub/cs4209144976_lower_merion/DC20BLK_CS4209144976.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS – CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Lower Merion township, PA|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=2022-12-19|pages=1, 3 (PDF p. 2, 4/5)|quote=Bryn Mawr Colg}} Most of the campus is in the Bryn Mawr census-designated place.{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st42_pa/place/p4209728_bryn_mawr/DC20BLK_P4209728.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS – CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Bryn Mawr CDP, PA|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=2022-12-21}}

The campus was designed in part by noted landscape designers Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, and has subsequently been designated an arboretum (the Bryn Mawr Campus Arboretum).

The majority of Bryn Mawr students live on campus in residence halls. Many of the older residence halls were designed by Cope & Stewardson (same architects who designed a large part of Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University) and are known for their Collegiate Gothic architecture, modeled after Cambridge University. Each is named after a county town in Wales: Brecon, Denbigh (1891), Merion (1885), and Radnor (1887), and Pembroke East and West (1892). Rhoads North and South was named after the college's first president, James E. Rhoads; Rockefeller is named after its donor, John D. Rockefeller. Erdman was opened in 1965, designed by architect Louis Kahn. In addition, students may choose to live in Batten House (an environmentally friendly co-op). Perry House, which was originally established as the Spanish language house in 1962, was redefined as the Black Cultural Center in the 1970s. In 2015, Perry House was relaunched by the college in the former French tower of Haffner, which had undergone renovations and reconstruction the previous year.{{cite news |title=Saying Goodbye to Perry House While Looking Ahead to the "New Perry" |url=http://news.brynmawr.edu/2015/05/08/saying-goodbye-to-perry-house-while-looking-ahead-to-new-perry/ |work=Bryn Mawr Now |date=8 May 2015 |access-date=2 June 2015}} Along with Perry, now known as the Enid Cook '31 Center, a new residence hall was built where the old Haffner Language and Culture House once stood.

Glenmede (formerly graduate student housing) is an estate located about a half mile from the main campus which at one point was available housing for undergraduate students. In 2007, it was sold to a conservation buyer as the annual costs of upkeep were too great for the college.[https://archive.today/20120912180526/http://www.saveardmorecoalition.org/node/1694 Glenmede Saved From Destruction and Over-Development]. Save Ardmore Coalition (2005-10-13). Retrieved on 2011-06-18.

In 1908, John C. Olmsted designed a private garden for M. Carey Thomas adjoining the Deanery. The garden was later modified and renamed as the Blanca Noel Taft Memorial Garden. In its current form, the garden is a small enclosure with two wall fountains, one with a small basin and the other with a sunken reflecting pool. The decorative wall tiles above the smaller wall fountain and basin were purchased from Syria.[http://www.brynmawr.edu/Library/exhibits/thomas/plan3.html Bryn Mawr College Campus Plan – John Olmsted] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060425214258/http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/thomas/plan3.html |date=April 25, 2006 }}. Bryn Mawr College. Retrieved on 2011-06-18.

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In 1960, architect Louis I. Kahn and Bryn Mawr College president, Katharine Elizabeth McBride, came together to create the Erdman Hall dormitory.{{cite journal |journal=The Architecture Week's Great Building Collection |url=http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Erdman_Hall_Dormitories.html |title=Erdman Hall Dormitories}}

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The Marjorie Walter Goodhart Theater houses a vaulted auditorium designed by Arthur Ingersoll Meigs of Mellor, Meigs & Howe, two smaller spaces that are ideal for intimate performances by visiting artists, practice rooms for student musicians, and the Office for the Arts. The building's towers and gables, friezes, carvings and ornamental ironwork, designed by Samuel Yellin, were done in the gothic revival style.[http://www.brynmawr.edu/visit/guided_tour/goodhart.shtml Bryn Mawr College | Visiting Campus] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071105230340/http://www.brynmawr.edu/visit/guided_tour/goodhart.shtml |date=2007-11-05 }}. Bryn Mawr College. Retrieved on 2011-06-18.[http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/texts/first300/part18.html The First 300: The Amazing and Rich History of Lower Merion (Part 18)]. Lowermerionhistory.org. Retrieved on 2011-06-18. In the fall of 2009, the college completed a renovation of Goodhart.[http://news.brynmawr.edu/?p=3959 Bryn Mawr Now: To Inaugurate a Reconceived Goodhart, Bi-College Theater Production Probes Language, Space] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722010253/http://news.brynmawr.edu/?p=3959 |date=July 22, 2011 }} Retrieved April 27, 2010

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Previously named after Bryn Mawr's first Dean and second president, Old Library was used as the primary campus library until 1970, when Mariam Coffin Canaday Library opened. The Great Hall (formerly the reading room of the library) was designed by Walter Cope (of Cope and Stewardson) in 1901 and built by Stewardson and Jamieson several years later, although M. Carey Thomas played a large part in its construction. Today, it is a space for performances, readings, lectures, and public gatherings. Old Library encloses a large open courtyard called "The Cloisters". The cremated remains of M. Carey Thomas and Emmy Noether are located in the Cloisters. Georgiana Goddard King is also buried in the cloister.{{cite book|last1=Mann|first1=Janice|title=Women Medievalists and the Academy|date=2005|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|page=121}} The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1991.{{cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2117&ResourceType=Building |title=M. Carey Thomas Library |access-date=2008-02-11 |work=National Historic Landmark summary listing |publisher=National Park Service |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606111044/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2117&ResourceType=Building |archive-date=2011-06-06 }}{{Cite journal|title=Photos from 1936, 1980, 1983, and undated, to accompany National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: M. Carey Thomas Library (text not available)|url={{NHLS url|id=91002052|photos=y}} |format=pdf|publisher=National Park Service}} The Great Hall was once the home of an Athena Lemnia statue (damaged in 1997) that is now located in a high alcove in the Rhys Carpenter Art and Archaeology Library. A plaster cast of that Athena now stands in her place at the Great Hall.{{cite web | url = http://www.brynmawr.edu/alumnae/bulletin/athena.htm | title = Athena | access-date = June 18, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110614132646/https://www.brynmawr.edu/alumnae/bulletin/athena.htm | archive-date = June 14, 2011}} Students often leave offerings to this statue in the hope that she will intervene on their behalf. In 2018, the board of trustees formalized the use of the name "The Old Library".{{cite web | url = https://www.brynmawr.edu/sites/default/files/Bryn_Mawr_College_Board_Decision_Summer_2018.pdf | title = Bryn Mawr College Board of Trustees, Summer 2018 | access-date = October 26, 2019 | archive-date = October 26, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191026132023/https://www.brynmawr.edu/sites/default/files/Bryn_Mawr_College_Board_Decision_Summer_2018.pdf | url-status = dead }}

Old Library was formerly known as "Thomas Hall" after Bryn Mawr's second president, M. Carey Thomas. The building was informally known as "College Hall" for a year before being officially renamed to "Old Library" in 2018. This renaming was in response to student protests, which claimed that many of M. Carey Thomas's views did not represent the values of the college. Student protesters identified that M. Carey Thomas was a virulent eugenicist, antisemite and racist who strongly opposed the admission of students who were not elite white women. Today, the building houses a plaque explaining the controversy of the former name and affirming the college's current dedication to equity and inclusion, which was unveiled during the 2019 Community Day of Learning.{{Cite web |title=Community Day of Learning Focuses on 'Engaging Bryn Mawr's Histories' {{!}} Bryn Mawr College |url=https://www.brynmawr.edu/news/bryn-mawr-holds-community-day-learning-focused-engaging-bryn-mawrs-histories |access-date=2022-09-10 |website=www.brynmawr.edu}}

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Named for Bryn Mawr's late professor of Classical Archaeology, the Rhys Carpenter Library was designed by Henry Myerberg of New York and opened in 1997. The space is connected to the rear of Old Library. The entrance is a four-story atrium. Names of art and archaeology faculty are displayed on the main wall of the atrium, along with a series of plaster casts of the metopes of the Parthenon. The roof comprises a wide grassy area used for outdoor concerts and picnics. The building won a 2001 Award of Excellence for Library Architecture from the Library Administration and Management Association and the American Institute of Architects. Carpenter Library also houses the college's renowned collections in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, History of Art, and Classics.{{Cite web |url=http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/index.html |title=Special Collections Website. Retrieved on 2014-05-20 |access-date=May 20, 2014 |archive-date=June 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606115035/http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/index.html |url-status=dead }}

{{main|Bryn Mawr College Deanery}}

The Bryn Mawr College Deanery was the campus residence of the first Dean and second President of Bryn Mawr College, M. Carey Thomas, who maintained a home there from 1885 to 1933. Under the direction of Thomas, the Deanery was gradually enlarged and elaborately decorated with the assistance of the American artist Lockwood de Forest and furnished with art from Thomas' world travels. From 1933 until 1968, the Deanery served as the Alumnae Center and Inn for the college. The building was demolished in the spring of 1968 to make space for the construction of Canaday Library, which stands on the site today. At the time of its demolition, many of the Deanery's furnishings were re-located to Wyndham, an 18th-century farmhouse (with several modern additions) which became the college's new Alumnae Center.

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Bryn Mawr is a small, four year, residential baccalaureate college.{{cite web |url=http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/classifications/sub.asp?key=748&subkey=15920&start=782 |title=Bryn Mawr College – Carnegie Classifications |publisher=Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |access-date=2009-05-30}}{{dead link|date=January 2021}} Although the college offers several graduate programs, the majority of enrollments are from students enrolled in the undergraduate arts and sciences program.

Students at Bryn Mawr are required to complete divisional requirements in the social sciences, natural sciences (including lab skills) and humanities. In addition, they must complete one year of a foreign language and fulfill a quantitative skills requirement and an Emily Balch Seminar requirement. The Emily Balch Seminars are similar to courses in freshman composition at other institutions, though focus on a specific topic. The seminars stress development of critical thinking skills and are discussion-based, with "intensive reading and writing."{{cite web|title=The Emily Balch Seminars|url=http://www.brynmawr.edu/balch/|work=Bryn Mawr College Undergraduate Courses|publisher=Bryn Mawr College|access-date=2 March 2011}}

Its most popular undergraduate majors, based on 2021 graduates, were:{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=bryn+mawr&s=all&id=211273#programs |website=nces.ed.gov |publisher=U.S. Dept of Education |title=Bryn Mawr College |access-date=February 23, 2023}}

• English Language and Literature (31)
• Biology/Biological Sciences (27)
• Psychology (24)
• Mathematics (23)
• Computer Science (22)

In 1972, the college founded a year-long post baccalaureate pre-medical program for career changers. The program remains one of the oldest, most prestigious, and successful in the country — with an over 98% medical school acceptance rate.{{Cite web |title=Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program |url=https://www.brynmawr.edu/postbac |access-date=2024-02-18 |website=www.brynmawr.edu}}{{Cite web |title=About the Program |url=https://www.brynmawr.edu/postbac/about-program |access-date=2024-02-18 |website=www.brynmawr.edu |language=en}}

For the Class of 2023 (enrolling fall 2019), Bryn Mawr received 3,332 applications, admitted 1,102 (30%), and enrolled 374 students.{{cite web |url=https://www.brynmawr.edu/sites/default/files/CDS_2019-2020.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228034920/https://www.brynmawr.edu/sites/default/files/CDS_2019-2020.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 28, 2021 |title=Bryn Mawr College Common Data Set 2019–2020, Part C |publisher=Bryn Mawr College }} For the freshmen who enrolled, the middle 50% range of SAT scores was 640–740 for evidence-based reading and writing, and 650–770 for math, while the middle 50% ACT composite score range was 29–33.

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Students celebrate four major traditions throughout the year, along with other minor traditions. Parade Night, which happens on the Friday of the first week of classes, is a tradition where the freshman class runs to Taylor Hall, while the upperclassmen throw confetti.{{Cite web |date=2024-03-15 |title=College Traditions |url=https://www.brynmawr.edu/student-life/college-traditions |access-date=2024-05-26 |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315163809/https://www.brynmawr.edu/student-life/college-traditions |url-status=bot: unknown }} Following this, the first of the three “Step Sings” takes place, during which the student body sing various traditional and pop songs.{{Cite web |title=Step Sing at Reunion |url=https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside/offices-services/alumnaei-relations-development/connecting/events-programs/reunion/step-sing-reunion |access-date=2024-05-26 |website=www.brynmawr.edu |language=en}} The second is Lantern Night, which takes place in late October or early November, where first year students receive a lantern which symbolizes the passing down of knowledge, during a traditional ceremony with songs in Ancient Greek. Welcome the First Years Week, formerly known as Hell Week, takes place during the early part of the semester between February and March.{{Cite web |title=Students Announce Name of New Tradition |url=https://www.brynmawr.edu/news/students-announce-name-new-tradition |access-date=2024-06-13 |website=www.brynmawr.edu |language=en}} It is a time where students complete silly tasks and attend special events created for them by an upperclassman (called a rose) who the freshman (called a bud) personally selects. May Day is held on the Sunday after the last day of classes, not on the traditional date of May 1. It includes a breakfast of strawberries and cream, a parade, dancing around the traditional Maypole, a feminist alternative called the Mayhole,{{Cite web |last=Richards |first=Ryan |date=2010-05-06 |title=Video: The Bryn Mawr College tradition is a blend of old and new |url=https://www.mainlinemedianews.com/2010/05/06/video-the-bryn-mawr-college-tradition-is-a-blend-of-old-and-new/ |access-date=2024-05-26 |website=Mainline Media News |language=en-US}} and student performances.{{Cite web |date=2017-08-04 |title=Traditions |url=http://www.brynmawr.edu/activities/traditions.shtml |access-date=2024-05-26 |archive-date=August 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804101712/http://www.brynmawr.edu/activities/traditions.shtml |url-status=dead }} Dar Williams's song "As Cool As I Am" has become part of May Day, as the song is played during the Mayhole celebration. The song is even called an "unofficial anthem" for the school.{{cite news | first=Molly | last=Parzen | title=Dar Williams at the Mawr | newspaper=The Bi-College News | date=April 6, 2010 | url=http://www.biconews.com/2010/04/06/dar-williams-at-the-mawr-2/ | access-date=March 8, 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212201225/http://www.biconews.com/2010/04/06/dar-williams-at-the-mawr-2/ | archive-date=February 12, 2015 | df=mdy-all }}

The traditions are organized and run by two Traditions Mistexes, elected by the student body. In addition to major traditions, there are a number of minor traditions. These include offerings to a statue of Athena for luck or thanks, using a set of stairs leading up to Taylor Hall called the Senior Steps or down Senior Row, a row of trees in the center of campus unless a student is a senior. The Friendship Poles, a set of two vertical poles located under the main arch of the Pembroke Dorms, are not supposed to be split by a group walking through, or else those who “split the poles” will no longer be friends. Additional traditions and superstitions surround the college campus and its facilities and buildings.{{Cite web |date=2013-09-13 |title=Traditions |url=http://www.brynmawr.edu/activities/traditions.shtml |access-date=2024-05-26 |archive-date=September 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130913111645/http://www.brynmawr.edu/activities/traditions.shtml |url-status=dead }}

Bryn Mawr has signed the American College and University President's Climate Commitment, and in doing so, the school agreed to make all new buildings comply with a LEED silver standard or higher; to purchase Energy Star products whenever possible; and to provide and encourage the use of public transportation.{{cite web |title=Implementation Profile for Bryn Mawr College |url=http://acupcc.aashe.org/report.php?id=3253 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901161713/http://acupcc.aashe.org/report.php?id=3253 |archive-date=September 1, 2009 |access-date=2009-06-08 |publisher=Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education}} The school's dining halls strive to be environmentally sustainable by working to expand their local and organic offerings, recycling in all dining areas, and recycling used fry oil as bio-diesel fuel. The dining halls previously offered biodegradable takeout containers, but reverted to Styrofoam in the 2009/10 academic year. Additionally, all leftover food is donated to a local food bank.{{cite web

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| access-date = 2009-06-08 }} On the College Sustainability Report Card 2011, published by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, Bryn Mawr received a B+. The school's highest category score was an A in Investment Priorities, since Bryn Mawr invests in renewable energy funds.[http://greenreportcard.org/report-card-2011/schools/bryn-mawr-college.html Bryn Mawr College – Green Report Card 2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818185043/http://www.greenreportcard.org/report-card-2011/schools/bryn-mawr-college.html |date=August 18, 2018 }}. Greenreportcard.org (2007-06-30). Retrieved on 2018-08-27.

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Bryn Mawr College teams are nicknamed Owls. They play in the Centennial Conference and field intercollegiate teams in badminton, basketball, cross country, field hockey, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, swimming, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field, and volleyball.{{Cite web |title=Centennial Conference Membership |url=https://centennial.org/sports/2023/5/17/CC_Membership.aspx?path=cenconf |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=centennial.org |language=en}} The badminton team won national intercollegiate championships in 1996 and 2008.{{cite web | title = 1996 NE Regional & National Collegiate Championships | url = http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/badminton/collegiate/results96.html | access-date = 2009-08-29}}{{cite web|title=Badminton wins IBA championships |url=http://athletics.blogs.brynmawr.edu/2008/04/12/badminton-wins-iba-championships/ |access-date=2009-08-29 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The mascot of the college is the owl, the symbol of Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom.

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A large number of Bryn Mawr alumnae and former attendees are notable in their respective fields. The list includes Drew Gilpin Faust (class of 1968), the first woman president of Harvard University; Hanna Holborn Gray (1950), the first woman president of a major research university (University of Chicago); modernist poets Hilda "H.D." Doolittle (attended), and Marianne Moore (1909); classics scholar Edith Hamilton (M.A. 1894); archaeologist Doreen Canaday Spitzer (1936); author, social activist and feminist Grace Lee Boggs (Ph.D. 1940); Nobel Peace Prize winner Emily Greene Balch (1889); geneticist Nettie Stevens (Ph.D. 1903); physicist Elizabeth Laird (Ph.D. 1901); physicist and astronomer Frances Lowater (Ph.D. 1904); mathematician Ada Isabel Maddison (Ph.D. 1896); Physician Martha Tracy (1898) a pioneer in medical education{{Cite web|title=AMWA|url=https://www.amwa-doc.org/|access-date=2021-03-22|website=American Medical Women's Association|language=en-US}} and in public health;{{Cite web|date=2021-01-15|title=After Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania|url=https://drexel.edu/legacy-center/the-collections/exhibits/martha-tracy-medical-student-to-dean/after-wmcp/|access-date=2021-03-22|website=drexel.edu|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Rogers|first=Fred B.|date=December 1964|title=Martha Tracy (1876–1942): Exceptional Woman of Public Health|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00039896.1964.10663931|journal=Archives of Environmental Health|language=en|volume=9|issue=6|pages=819–821|doi=10.1080/00039896.1964.10663931|pmid=14203108|issn=0003-9896}} 1891 Fellow in Mathematics Ruth Gentry; artist Anne Truitt (1943); author Ellen Kushner (attended); economist and founding Director of the Congressional Budget Office Alice Rivlin (1952); four-time Academy Award-winning actress Katharine Hepburn (1928); poet Jane Hess Flanders (1962); Carol Alonso, nuclear physicist; Mary Elizabeth Taylor, former aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Forbes 30 under 30; Carolyn Goodman, mayor of Las Vegas from 2011–; Betsy Hodges, mayor of Minneapolis from 2013 to 2017; Renata Adler, novelist and journalist; Dame A.S. Byatt, novelist and Booker Prize winner; Joan Slonczewski, biologist and science fiction novelist; Caroline Stevermer, fantasy novelist; Rachel Simon, author and memoirist; Maggie Siff, actor (1996).{{Cite news |last=Witchel |first=Alex |date=2008-06-22 |title='Mad Men' Has Its Moment |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/magazine/22madmen-t.html |access-date=2023-11-22 |issn=0362-4331}} Neuroscientist Candace Pert (1970) helped discover opioid receptors. Ana Botín is chair of the Santander Group, one of the world's largest banking groups.{{cite web |last1=Roland |first1=Denise |last2=Tovey |first2=Alan |title=Ana Botin succeeds father to become Santander chairman |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/11088139/Ana-Botin-succeeds-father-to-become-Santander-chairman.html |website=The Telegraph |date=September 10, 2014 |access-date=26 July 2020}}{{cite web |title=TOP 20 Largest World Banks in 2020 by Total Assets |url=https://fxssi.com/top-20-largest-world-banks-in-current-year |website=FXSSI |access-date=26 July 2020}} Indie musician Michelle Zauner (who performs as Japanese Breakfast) attended Bryn Mawr as well.{{cite news| first=Sonia|last=Rao|date=April 20, 2021|title=Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner is fighting for joy through grief|newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/michelle-zauner-japanese-breakfast-crying-in-h-mart-interview/2021/04/19/db2850d4-9d38-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html|access-date=29 May 2022}} The social reformer, Alice P. Gannett (1898), for whom the Goodrich-Gannett Neighborhood Center is named, attended Bryn Mawr,{{cite web |title=Goodrich-Gannett Neighborhood Center |url=https://www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit/88a8305fdf2d40d8a2b7b62c02f156f8-goodrich-gannett-neighborhood-center-cleveland |website=www.idealist.org |access-date=23 April 2022 |language=en}} as did Maya Ajmera, CEO of Society for Science & the Public. Jeannette Piccard, American balloonist, scientist, teacher and priest.{{Cite web |title=Jeannette Ridlon Piccard |url=https://www.nmspacemuseum.org/inductee/jeannette-ridlon-piccard/ |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=New Mexico Museum of Space History |language=en-US}}

Notable faculty include Woodrow Wilson, chemists Arthur C. Cope and Louis Fieser, Arthur Lindo Patterson of the Patterson function, Edmund Beecher Wilson, Geraldine Richmond, philologists Catherine Conybeare, Grace Frank and Louise Holland, archaeologists Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Leicester Bodine Holland, Thomas Hunt Morgan, historian Caroline Robbins, mathematician Emmy Noether, neurobiologist Paul Grobstein, and Lillian Rosanoff Lieber, Richmond Lattimore, Tenney Frank, Mabel Louise Lang, and Lily Ross Taylor, the Spanish philosopher José Ferrater Mora, Germanic philologist Agathe Lasch, Classical philologist Wilmer Cave Wright, Hispanist and medievalist Georgiana Goddard King, poet Karl Kirchwey,{{cite web |title= Faculty 2010–2011 |publisher= Bryn Mawr College |date= 2010-10-15 |url= http://www.brynmawr.edu/creativewriting/faculty.html#karlkirchwey |access-date= 2010-10-15 |archive-date= October 19, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161019014106/http://www.brynmawr.edu/creativewriting/faculty.html#karlkirchwey |url-status= dead }}{{cite news |author= Karen Heller |title= Bryn Mawr shows creative side as it makes way for arts |work= Chicago Tribune

|date= May 1, 2003 |url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/2003/05/01/bryn-mawr-shows-creative-side-as-it-makes-way-for-arts/ |access-date= 2010-10-15}} decorated French Resistance officer Marcelle Pardé (French literature 1919 to 1929), and historian and author Amy Kelly.

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• Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas. New York: Knopf, 1994.
• Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. [https://archive.org/details/almamaterdesigne0000horo_h4r3 Alma Mater: design and experience in the women's colleges from their nineteenth-century beginnings to the 1930s]; 2nd ed. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.

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