Spring 2017
In this issue of the Bulletin, the art world social media sensation JiaJia Fei ’08 shares her thoughts on the art world and the power of digital storytelling and three Mellon Mays Fellows talk about their experiences at Bryn Mawr and beyond. Plus, we hear from Mawrters who attended a conference on living LGBTQIA+.
On the cover: JiaJia Fei ’08 is currently the director of digital at the Jewish Museum of New York. Photograph by Andy Boyle.
Dispatch from the City of Brotherly Love
Creative Writing Professor Dan Torday reflects on the desecration of the Mount Carmel Jewish Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Change Agent
With her own experience in mind, Joy Rukanzakanza ’19 is working to empower high school girls in rural Zimbabwe:
Career Changers
Career Changers gives potential students a taste of the many professional pathways in the field of social work.
Cracking the Code
A class blends the history of secret writing, the art of creating codes, and the mathematics underlying codes and ciphers.
Reaching for the Stars
Inspired by the International Space Station, an enterprising student launches several initiatives to foster interest in STEM fields.
Living as LBGTQIA+
A spring conference brought together current students and members of the College’s LGBTQIA+ Affinity Group.
Transcendentalism
Bringing her cast of characters with her, Tony and Obie Award–winning playwright Sarah Jones ’95 came back to Bryn Mawr.
Factories of Failure
No one who has spent any time in a youth prison can walk away without seeing it as anything but a factory of failure.
Math in Action
A 2004 magna cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr, Erica Graham ’04 has returned to campus to teach mathematics.
The Big Bang Theory
A physics major (with a double minor in astronomy and French), Leigh Schaefer ’13 is now working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
Art and the Intellect
A conversation with artist and Fulbright scholar Mariam Souali about her creative and academic work.
Faculty Profile: Erica Graham ’04
An applied mathematician who focuses on biological problems, Erica Graham ’04 uses math to tackle questions posed by biology.
Association News
A letter from Alumnae Association President Saskia Subramanian ’88, M.A. ’89
U-Curve: Mawrters at Midlife
Lawyer, doctor, immigrant— three Mawrters rebuild their lives after midlife upends their best-laid plans.
The Poet and the Pitch
Marianne Moore, Class of 1909, garnered fame as a poet–and a baseball fan.
Bryn Mawr Woman: What Gives?
With gap years, student debt, and admissions processes delaying post-graduate study, getting on with life can be a challenge.
Finding the Lost, Decades Later
Using cutting-edge scientific research, D. Sarzinski ’05 is identifying victims of the 1990s war in her native Bosnia.
Anassa Kata
Medical research, entrepreneurship, performance art–these Mawrters are doing it all.