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Features

Alumnae Stories

‘The Godmother of Women’s Health,’ Lila Wallis ’47

The Barnard alumna changed everything from the very way women are treated at the doctor’s office to life in medical school for female students

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Alumnae Stories

CIA Spouse Advocate Barbara Colby ’42

Barbara Heinzen Colby ’42 was a master at keeping secrets and protecting her family

 

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Woman reading to children
Alumnae Stories

Librarian Jean Blackwell Hutson ’35

Meet the librarian who transformed the Schomburg Collection into a world-renowned treasure trove of Black history and culture

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Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek ’50
Alumnae Stories

Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek ’50

The woman dubbed the “Rosa Parks of Architecture” began her career path at Barnard

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Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek ’50
Alumnae Stories

You Oughta Know

Four trailblazing Barnard women whose extraordinary contributions made an outsize impact on their professional fields and beyond

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Emma Cunningham
Alumnae Stories

Bridging Barnard Generations

Learning the language of finance

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Maryam Banikarim ’89
Alumnae Stories

Bridging Barnard Generations

Where mentorship meets action

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Hill-Patel
Alumnae Stories

Bridging Barnard Generations

Growing life lessons in the garden

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Sumaiya Khalique ’09 Sabrina Stark ’26
Alumnae Stories

Bridging Barnard Generations

Pathways to community

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Hum Tech Digi Hum
STEM

Thinking Digitally, One Stitch at a Time

A.L. McMichael of the Digital Humanities Center uses digital and analog technologies to help students to map stories 

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Hum Tech VR
Arts & Culture

A Future Inspired by the Land

Khepera Lyons-Clark’s multidisciplinary art project melds family history with natural material and digital media at the Barnard Design Center 
 

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Hum Tech VR
Arts & Culture

Staging Humanity in a Digital Age

The Movement Lab's artist-in-residence Hope Hutman’s new play brings the theater to virtual and augmented reality.   

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Hum Tech AI
STEM

A First-Year Writing Assist From AI

Professor Benjamin Breyer created an AI tool that guides students in a first-year writing course

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