Discourses
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Celebrating Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (Class of 1916), a dedicated crusader for women's rights, who led a suffrage march through New York City's streets.
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In her teaching of women’s suffrage, scholar Marilyn Sanders Mobley ’74 brings the critical contributions of women of color into view.
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Author, Barnard professor, and transgender activist Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses her latest memoir and what our canine companions can teach us about ourselves and love.
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Biology professor JJ Miranda counts on teamwork to research the mysteries of cancer-causing viruses
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Barnard’s Science Pathways Scholars Program helps students build experience in the lab to become leaders in science
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During Hardwick’s 20-year tenure at Barnard, she wrote some of her most important work and inspired a generation of talented writers
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A collection of letters edited by Professor Saskia Hamilton paints an illuminating portrait of the marriage of two literary greats: writer Elizabeth Hardwick, who taught at Barnard for 20 years, and poet Robert Lowell
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Two Barnard alumnae who graduated almost 50 years apart discuss their lives as women physicists in a field mostly populated by men.
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Mignon Moore ’92CC is keeping watch on the corner of a busy intersection, taking notes at the crossroads of gender, sexuality, race, and class, where the chair of Barnard’s Department of Sociology first became interested in the field as an academic career.