Bryn Mawr College is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr,Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885,Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges,a group of elite,historically women's colleges in the United States,and the Tri-College Consortium along with Haverford College and Swarthmore College. The college has an enrollment of about 1,350 undergraduate students and 450 graduate students. It was the first women's college to offer graduate education through a PhD.
Martha Carey Thomas was an American educator,suffragist,and linguist. She was the second president of Bryn Mawr College,a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr,Pennsylvania.
Helen Herron Taft Manning was an American professor of history and college dean. She was the middle child and only daughter of U.S. President William Howard Taft and his wife Helen Herron.
Bryn Mawr School,founded in 1885 as the first college-preparatory school for girls in the United States,is an independent,nonsectarian all-girls school for grades PK-12,with a coed preschool. Bryn Mawr School is located in the Roland Park community of Baltimore,Maryland,United States at 109 W. Melrose Avenue,Baltimore MD 21210.
Florence Bascom was an American pioneer for women as a geologist and educator. Bascom became an anomaly in the 19th century when she earned two bachelor's degrees. Earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1882,and a Bachelor of Science in 1884 both at the University of Wisconsin. Shortly after,in 1887,Bascom earned her master's degree in geology at the University of Wisconsin. Bascom was the second woman to earn her PhD in geology in the United States,in 1893. Receiving her PhD from Johns Hopkins University,this made her the first woman to earn a degree at the institution. After earning her doctorate in geology,in 1896 Bascom became the first woman to work for the United States Geological Survey as well as being one of the first women to earn a master's degree in geology. Bascom was known for her innovative findings in this field,and led the next generation of female geologists. Geologists consider Bascom to be the "first woman geologist in America".
The Baldwin School is a private school for girls in Bryn Mawr,Pennsylvania,United States. It was founded in 1888 by Florence Baldwin.
Frances "Fran" Krauskopf Conley is a professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University. She is the author of Walking Out on the Boys (1998),the story of her protest of misogyny at the university hospital. She is a crucial figure in the advancement of women in American medicine.
Margaret Helen Stevenson was an American film,stage and radio actress,known for her role as Margo Lane in the radio adaptation of The Shadow,opposite Orson Welles in 1938.
Priscilla T. Neuman Cohn Ferrater Mora was an American philosopher and animal rights activist. She was Emerita Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University,associate director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics,and co-editor of the centre's Journal of Animal Ethics.
Dorothy Anna Hahn (1876–1950) was a lifelong educator and American professor of organic chemistry at Mount Holyoke College. Her research utilized the then newly developed technique of ultraviolet spectroscopy to study hydantoins.
Eleanora Frances Knopf was an American geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and did research in the Appalachians during the first two decades of the twentieth century. She studied at Bryn Mawr College,and earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry,a master's degree in geology,and a Ph.D. in geology in 1912. She was the first American geologist to use the new technique of petrography which she pioneered in her life's work - the study of Stissing Mountain.
Eleanor Bontecou was an American lawyer,civil rights advocate,law professor and government official. Bontecou served as an attorney and investigator for both the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. War Department. She also worked as a professor at two universities. During her career,Bontecou achieved national fame for her work in the civil liberties and women's rights movements.
Mary Hamilton Swindler was an American archaeologist,classical art scholar,author,and professor of classical archaeology,most notably at Bryn Mawr College,the University of Pennsylvania,and the University of Michigan. Swindler also founded the Ella Riegel Memorial Museum at Bryn Mawr College. She participated in various archaeological excavations in Greece,Egypt,and Turkey. The recipient of several awards and honors for her research,Swindler's seminal work was Ancient Painting,from the Earliest Times to the Period of Christian Art (1929).
Leslie Richards is the current General Manager of SEPTA,the public transportation agency serving the Philadelphia area. She previously served as a member of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners and as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation,from 2015 to 2019 under Governor Tom Wolf.
Marie Litzinger was an American mathematician known for her research in number theory,homogeneous polynomials,and modular arithmetic.
Ruth Gentry was a pioneering American woman mathematician during the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. She was the first native-born Indiana woman to acquire a PhD degree in mathematics,and most likely the first woman born in Indiana to receive a doctoral degree in any scientific discipline.
Edith Hayward Hall Dohan (1877–1943) was an American archaeologist who earned Bryn Mawr College's first classical archaeology Ph.D. Hall was part of an excavation team with Harriet Boyd in her early career that most notably brought the first Mycenaean and pre-Mycenaean collection to be displayed in America. Hall later wrote The Decorative Art of Cretein the Bronze Age,which was published in 1906 that breaks down the evolution of the art and pottery in Crete from the Bronze Age.
Ann Ratner Miller was an American sociologist and demographer in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,described as "a pioneer in the study of human migration and patterns of labor force participation," "part of the first generation of demographers that assembled and analyzed census data to undertake the first systematic study of internal migration within the United States."
Michi Matsuda also written as Matsuda Michi) was a Japanese educator,head of the Doshisha Women's College from 1922 to 1933.
Isabel Fothergill Smith was a geology professor from Greeley,Colorado. She studied geology at Bryn Mawr College under her mentor Florence Bascom. Smith published various articles as a student and a memoir on Bascom later during her retirement. Beginning her career as an associate professor of geology at Smith College,Isabel later became the first dean of Scripps College,a prestigious women's liberal arts college.
