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- Jonathan Storm: Performing arts get TV spotlight
- Well, shut my mouth and knock me over with a feather: WHYY premieres a whole new home-grown weekly series tonight at 9. On Canvas is just the kind of thing the big public station in the nation's fourth-largest TV market should be doing: a showcase of the variety of performing...
- Research articles 2008-05-28
- Waiting out the college wait lists
- So they may not have gotten into their dream schools, but most high school seniors have already decided where they will go to college next fall. But wait, what's that sound? It could be Harvard knocking. There is still hope for a few hundred in the class of 2008 who...
- Research articles 2008-05-19
- Q & A: Creative: Bex Bardon; Each week we interview a rising star
- Age: 26. Where are you from? I live in Elland with my son, Kaius, who's five. My workshop is also based there. Describe what you do... I am a jewellery maker and designer. My work is on display in various boutiques and galleries, I undertake special commissions...
- Research articles 2008-03-31
- Colleges 'engineering' change
- SWARTHMORE, Pa. -- When Kara Peterman was a high school student interested in engineering, she toured a high-powered engineering university in the Northeast that proudly displayed photos of its graduates. She counted three women in one picture. "I wasn't really encouraged," she recalled. Today,...
- Research articles 2008-01-08
- No-loan plan at Swarthmore
- Swarthmore College will replace all student loans with scholarships in financial aid awards beginning next fall, the dean of admissions said yesterday. Swarthmore's move will put the elite liberal arts college in Delaware County in a league with Harvard University, Princeton and a handful of other colleges and universities that...
- Research articles 2007-12-13
- College vows to remove barriers
- Swarthmore College will make its campus and services more accessible to disabled people under a settlement agreement with the Justice Department, it announced yesterday. The department had found barriers to restrooms, seatings, signs, doors, and interior and exterior pathways for those who are disabled. Swarthmore agreed to make alterations to...
- Research articles 2007-11-21
- Justice Department Announces Settlement With Swarthmore College to Increase Access for People With Disabilities
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007, TDD: +1-202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Justice Department yesterday announced a settlement agreement under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA with Swarthmore College, under which the college will make its campus and...
- Research articles 2007-11-20
- Swarthmore College Political Scientist Calls Voter ID Laws 'Democratic Emergency,' Joins Amicus Brief to Challenge Proposed Legislation.
- Byline: Swarthmore College SWARTHMORE, Pa., Nov. 15 AScribe Newswire -- Swarthmore College political science professor Richard Valelly '75 joined a group of leading scholars of race, class, and politics in America in signing an amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court this week to...
- Research articles 2007-11-15
- Swarthmore College Engineering Major Designs Eco-Friendly Dorm Room; Features Include Solar Panel, Aeroponic Garden.
- Byline: Swarthmore College SWARTHMORE, Pa., Nov. 1 AScribe Newswire -- Lauren Goodfriend ('08), a Swarthmore College engineering and mathematics major from Danbury Conn., is living her dream - sort of. She knows that when she owns a house, she wants to power it herself....
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- '55 school killer: A life taken, lived
- At Swarthmore College on Jan. 11, 1955, Bob Bechtel shot and killed a fellow student, Francis Holmes Strozier. One bullet, from a .22-caliber rifle, in the head.Five years later, Bechtel was at Susquehanna University, pursuing a degree in psychology.Fifty years later, in 2005, filmmaker Macky Alston trained a camera on...
- Research articles 2007-04-13
- Do This!
- Saturday-Sunday Bali high I Wayan Dibia, a master of Topeng, Balinese masked dance/theater, will be the featured performer Sunday at Swarthmore College's Gamelan Semara Santi Spring Concert. Music and dance of Bali, Indonesia, will be performed at 3:30 p.m. in the Scott Amphitheater (500 College Ave.) at Swarthmore. Gamelan Semara...
- Research articles 2007-04-13
- Fine vining
- As an artist and gardener, Victoria Mowrer has a thing for funky vines, especially gourds that rocket round the clock in the heat of summer."They're very fun because they grow so fast, and I really am enchanted with their tendrils. They're magical," says Mowrer, of Strasburg, who sculpts the ugly-duckling...
- Research articles 2007-04-06
- Mary Eberle | Volunteer, 88
- Mary Lois Broomell Eberle, 88, formerly of Jenkintown, a volunteer, died of heart failure March 21 at Foulkeways, a retirement community in Gwynedd.A native of Cincinnati, Mrs. Eberle graduated from Swarthmore College, where she met her future husband, Charles "Buzz" Eberle Jr. She was agent for the Class of 1940...
- Research articles 2007-04-04
- Colorado College a value
- Colorado College is the 15th-best value among private liberal arts colleges across the country, according to the April issue of Kiplinger's magazine. The college's annual total cost for the 2006-07 academic year, including tuition, fees, room and board and estimated book expenses, totaled $41,612. That's 15 percent...
- Research articles 2007-03-08
- FREE EVENTS
- Gorilla Girls A group of female performers disguised as gorillas to hide their identity present a politically charged commentary on sexism and racism in America. The event includes a lecture and workshop meant to encourage similar creative outlets for campaigns promoting social change. Call 610-328-8200 for more information. ...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Delaware County News in Brief
- Swarthmore offers wealth of Halloween activities A scarecrow-decorating contest will be one of the old-fashioned Halloween events at the Swarthmore Town Center from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday. Beginning at noon on the Borough Hall lawn along Park Avenue, there will be a host of activities for the family. Participants...
- Research articles 2006-10-15
- For Swarthmore's 5th winner, no peace or quiet
- For a school with just a few hundred graduates every year, Swarthmore College is on a bit of a roll. John C. Mather, Class of 1968, yesterday shared the Nobel Prize in physics - the fifth Swarthmore grad to win a Nobel, all of them since 1972. Mather, 60, a...
- Research articles 2006-10-04
- Most dinosaurs have yet to be discovered.(NEWS WATCH)(University of Pennsylvania's Peter Dodson and Steve Wang)(Brief article)
- Despite the popular exhibits in the world's natural history museums, most dinosaurs that existed remain unaccounted for, according to Swarthmore College statistician Steve Wang. But based on historic discovery trends, Wang estimates that 75 percent of those currently still unknown will be discovered in the next...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Fossil hunters told: Dig deeper
- Dinosaur hunters of the world, grab your picks and hammers! You've barely scratched the surface, according to a study published yesterday by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College. A sophisticated statistical analysis suggests paleontologists have unearthed fewer than one-third of the various kinds of dinosaurs to be...
- Research articles 2006-09-05
- With Rooms to Grow
- As education turns into an increasingly competitive global business, universities are using design more than ever as a way to set themselves apart. They're employing star architects like Americans Frank Gehry and Robert Venturi--or Britain's Norman Foster, whose stunning new library for the campus of Berlin's Free University has drawn...
- Research articles 2006-08-21
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