Q&A with Maxine Savitz ’58
After a decades-long, multifaceted career that included management and executive positions overseeing R&D and technology transfer in the public and private sectors, Maxine Savitz ’58 recently was...
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Carol Bernstein When Carol Bernstein ’69 graduated from Bryn Mawr College, she thought she’d become a teacher. She earned a master of arts in teaching from Antioch University in 1971 and at one time...
View ArticleStudying Triggers of the Immune Response
Stephanie Eisenbarth Vaccination has protected people from a wide variety of dire maladies over the last several decades, but immunologists still are trying to determine how exactly how the body...
View ArticleMargo Gonzalez Leach ’74 Designs Homes With Great Spirit
Margo Gonzalez Leach As a girl growing up in Bryn Mawr, Margo Gonzalez Leach ’74, AIA, arranged piles of autumn leaves into floor plans in her yard and walked through these ephemeral spaces. Today, as...
View ArticlePamela Messer Peters ’79: Filling Gaps in Medical Knowledge Online
Pamela Messer Peters Each year in the United States, several thousand persons are diagnosed with metastatic cancer whose primary cancer site is unknown, according to the National Cancer Institute, and...
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Nina G. Jablonski APS Member Nina G. Jablonski ’75, professor and head of the department of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, was elected to membership in the American Philosophical...
View ArticleQ&A with Alice M. Rivlin ’52: A World Stage in Economic Policy-Making
Alice M. Rivlin ’52 is a Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brookings’ Greater Washington Research Program. Before returning to Brookings,...
View ArticleQ&A Part Two with Alice Rivlin ’52: Health Care, Technology, and the Economy
Alice M. Rivlin ’52 is a Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brookings’ Greater Washington Research Program. Before returning to Brookings,...
View ArticleYuh Min Chook ’88: Exploring the Gateway to the Cell Nucleus
The nuclear pore complex of any given human cell could be described as the world’s busiest shipping port. Between 10 million and 100 million shipments of proteins fundamental to cellular processes pass...
View ArticleGail Stennies ’81: Training Public Health Leaders to Meet 21st-Century...
By Dorothy Wright In 1999, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a list of 10 great public-health achievements of the 20th century in the United States: vaccination, motor-vehicle safety,...
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