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… Summer 2012 Perils of the Presidency
 Partisan politics is only one of many … asking, however, is why anyone would want the job. While being president most definitely has its perks, it’s not only … the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts…First tenured woman on the faculty of the Yale School of …

… Spring 2012 The Next Picture Show
 At a restored theater, Jennifer … daughters; their middle, Charlotte Christman-Cohen, is a first-year at Barnard. 
 Christman returned to school—this … time for an MBA at Columbia Business School—and wound up being hired as an internal consultant for IBM. Though she …

… By Debora Spar and Jennifer Finney Boylan. Adapted from The Bitch is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier, … was that I was sick and tired of every man on the planet being unable to look above my neck. Their fault, I know, not … the beans. After bearing the burden in secret for the first 12 years of our supposedly heterosexual marriage, I …

… doesn’t stop after you’re no longer a student. For the past five years, Barnard students and faculty have … projects. This year’s Barnard Bold Conference will be the first since the start of the pandemic to fully return to a … table with chairs around it.   When Design Informs Well-Being The murder of George Floyd. The Chinese government’s …

… Meet Dr. Sarah Ann Anderson-Burnett The physician brings her passion for health equity and … behind the Francine A. LeFrak Foundation Center for Well-Being , set to open its new home on campus next school year. … shared decision-making that centers their voice first is important to me,” she says. While she tackles the …

… April 1, 2021 Asian Americans are frequently viewed as all being much the same—we’re treated as though we don’t have rich inner … in science and math, are limiting and dehumanizing. The first time I came across the word metacognition , I was a …

… Leadership Past Leaders of the College Ella Weed Ella Weed was born on January 27, 1853, … academic staff. Smith graduated from Bryn Mawr with its first class and went on to become one of the first women to … in 1909. She taught at both Columbia and Barnard before being appointed assistant professor of English at Barnard. In …

… disciplines, from economics to psychology, to weigh in on the question “How can human beings thrive?” Barnard Magazine … involved, it is political.” To improve human well-being, we first and foremost need to be committed to improving our …

… disciplines, from economics to psychology, to weigh in on the question “How can human beings thrive?” Barnard Magazine … involved, it is political.” To improve human well-being, we first and foremost need to be committed to improving our …

… Commencement Commencement 2024 The biggest celebration of Barnard College’s academic year is … as president of Smith College, you established the first engineering program at an American women’s college in … because of this honor [but] because of the privilege of being with you today and listening to the wonderful remarks …

… Pedagogy On This Page On This Page Overview Trauma in the Classroom Six Trauma-Informed Core Principles … and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.” Trauma can have a serious impact on a student’s … and a trauma-informed pedagogical approach is grounded first and foremost in an awareness of the signs of trauma …

… no other pre-school programs that specifically catered to the toddler set at that time, the very notion of sending … of the center; at the time there was very little research being done on that specific age group. Research on toddler … to sign up their toddlers took some real doing. “At first, no one came,” says Shimm, who remembers literally …

… and leadership development trainings for women. The format of these training programs can vary from a … women who are assertive in the workplace are penalized for being seen as angry and uncompromising; thus, they are less … and activist. During her 2010 political campaign as the first Indian American woman to run for U.S. Congress in the …

… Elissa Newport ’69 For Brain Awareness Week (March 15-21), the recipient of the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific … ability to speak and understand language. It wasn’t the first time Newport had changed directions. “Every 10 years or … “[The Barnard labs] really led me to switch over from being an English major, which I really enjoyed, to being a …

… made regularly, this curated selection seeks to help the community stay connected to the College while supporting … Cagen coined the term “quirkyalone” — someone who enjoys being single (but is not opposed to being in a relationship) … the 1940s, Diana Chang became widely known to be the first American-born Chinese person to publish a novel in the …

… undergraduate student who identifies as low-income and/or first-generation and attends Barnard College, Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, or the School … can check out materials from the collections without being required to publicly identify themselves as low-income …

… Break This Down: Haiti, Zombies, and Benign Denials To mark the August 1791 anniversary of the start of the Haitian … than ten years later, it ended with Haiti becoming the first colony in the region to win independence. To mark the … as a political subject, as opposed to as a merely abject being in need of aid. A big part of what I try to do in this …

… One for the History Books In 1976, Mae Yih ’51 became the first Chinese American elected to a state legislature … say the least. “The newspaper said, ‘Mae Yih’s chance of being elected is like a snowball in July,’ ” she remembers …

… holding her bronze medal win from a May 2019 meet, where the Columbia women's rowing team took third place in the … that every morning for the next five years. Rowing was my first experience in a team sport, and there was something … a second-place finish at our championship meet. What does being a student-athlete at the only college for women to …

… This Is It | The Class of 2021 Graduates Three students have shared their Barnard journeys since they first arrived on campus four years ago. Here, the graduating … Harrison '21, Phanésia Pharel '21, Agie Neneh Sissoho '21] Being a Barnard student in 2021 looks a lot different than it …