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For Its 50th Anniversary, Alumni Recount BCC's Founding, Impact

Swarthmore College — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 21:10:00 -0500

As part of Swarthmore's yearlong Celebration of Black Excellence, five alumni instrumental in establishing the College's Black Cultural Center returned to campus 50 years later to discuss their efforts.

Listen: 'Seven Sisters and a Brother' Authors Tell Story of Student Takeover that Paved Way for More Inclusive Swarthmore

Swarthmore College — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 08:49:00 -0500

Listen: Psychologist Jessica Schleider ’12 on Youth Mental Health Interventions

Swarthmore College — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 14:00:00 -0500

Jessica Schleider ’12 explains her research on depression and anxiety in children and adolescents while explaining how youth mental health interventions work.

Listen: ACLU Director Dan Korobkin ’02 on First Amendment-Based Religious Refusals and the Supreme Court

Swarthmore College — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:00:00 -0400

In this Constitution Day talk, Dan Korobkin ’02 of the Michigan American Civil Liberties Union discusses the claim by some individuals and organizations that their religious objections give rise to a Constitutional right to discriminate.

Patricia Park ’03 Reads From Her Upcoming Novel

Swarthmore College — Fri, 31 May 2019 13:00:00 -0400

Earlier this semester, Patty Park ’03 returned to Swarthmore to read from her new book, El Chino. She also discusses growing up as a Korean-American in Queens, N.Y., and the cognitive dissonance she experienced in reconciling where she came from and what she was becoming while she was a student.

Author Kurt Eichenwald ’83 Discusses A Mind Unraveled, Recounts His Life with Epilepsy

Swarthmore College — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 01:41:00 -0400

Eichenwald details challenges he faced as a Swarthmore student and his decades-long battle not only to survive, but to thrive.

Anita Mannur Examines What It Means to Eat Alone

Swarthmore College — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 06:00:00 -0500

Delivering the 2019 Genevieve Lee Lecture in Asian American Studies, Mannur examines what it means to eat alone and how Asian American cultural production encourages us to think more about the social freight of solo dining.

Tedi Asher '05 on Bridging the Gap Between Arts and Sciences

Swarthmore College — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:46:00 -0500

"It's my hope that by studying our visitors responses to the exhibitions, we might be able to understand something more about the brain and contribute to neuroscience itself," says Asher, a neuroscience researcher at the Peabody Essex Museum.

Ursula K. Le Guin Biographer Julie Phillips '86 on Building a Freelance Career

Swarthmore College — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:03:00 -0500

Speaking to English majors and minors, Phillips trace her career path as a writer for The New Yorker, The Village Voice and many other publications.

Political Scientist Peter Andreas ’87 on Interactive Relationship Between Drugs and War

Swarthmore College — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:40:00 -0500

"Drugs, in an important way, made war," Andreas says in a new book, "and war, in turn, shaped drugs and made new drugs."

Listen: Mathematician Emily Riehl Dives Deep on the Meaning of Numbers

Swarthmore College — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:23:00 -0500

In the 2018 Kitao Lecture, Riehl proves, with help from the audience, the distributivity of multiplication over addition—a(b + c) = ab + ac—using unconventional methods.

Political Scientists Frances Lee and Patrick Egan ’92 Clarify the Stakes of the Midterm Election

Swarthmore College — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:33:00 -0500

Egan (left) and Lee explore the 2018 midterm congressional elections with Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science Rick Valelly '75.

Listen: Sarah Jaquette Ray '98 on Coming of Age at the End of the World

Swarthmore College — Mon, 14 May 2018 13:44:00 -0400

Ray discusses the challenges of overcoming student discouragement and apathy when teaching climate change and social injustice.

Author Jamie Stiehm ’82 on the Swarthmore Arc of Woman's Suffrage

Swarthmore College — Fri, 11 May 2018 16:54:00 -0400

Stiehm argues that Alice Paul '05's fight for the ratification of the 19th Amendment represents the culmination of the efforts of College founder Lucretia Mott.

Medical Anthropologist Samantha Gottlieb ’00: "Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine"

Swarthmore College — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:37:00 -0400

Gottlieb explores how the vaccine Gardasil, which was developed to combat HPV, suffered from marketing that positioned it as a cervical cancer vaccine for women.