In this issue of the Alumnae Bulletin, we hear from some young alumnae who are making music in the indie scene. Plus Elizabeth Mosier ’84 reflects on the traditions that make Bryn Mawr, and Alice Rivlin ’52 lays the odds for inclusive prosperity in the U.S.
On the cover: Michelle Zauner ’11, whose album Psychopomp with her band Japanese Breakfast has been hailed by the online music magazine Pitchfork as “cosmically huge and acutely personal.” Photograph by Kate McCann.
Student archeologists don’t need to look far to find votive offerings to the Goddess Athena.
Bryn Mawr’s second annual Community Day of Learning takes on the timely topic of class — on campus and in our lives.
Former Brown President to speak, a trove of medieval manuscripts, a new dean, and more.
Alice Rivlin ’52, an advisor to presidents, returns to campus to address prosperity, policy, and polarization.
A Bryn Mawr professor is conducting groundbreaking research to understand more about the origins of agriculture and urbanism.
The National Science Foundation funds a Bryn Mawr lab exploring how organisms adapt without genetic change.
A team-taught class looks at how the so-called Dark Ages saved classical texts.
Jessica Todd Harper ’97 at the Smithsonian, Sheila Walker ’66 at the UN, Rebecca Jordan-Young ’86 with a Guggenheim, and more.
Catherine Lafarge in La Belle France, Toba Kerson in Israel, and Barbara Miller Lane in the suburbs.
Bookstore and Club Volunteers join forces to support The Lantern Bookstore.
The Alumnae Association hosts a reception for graduate students.