Alumnae Stories
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A proposed dress code for students ignited protest — and the activist spirit — on the Barnard campus in 1960
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Audrey Heimler '53 was a stay-at-home mother of four who started her pioneering career in the field of genetic counseling at her kitchen table.
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Peek in on five workplaces where multiple generations of Barnard grads share history, resources and, of course, a fridge.
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Almost 70 years after making history as the first Nepalese woman to attend college in the U.S., Bhinda Malla Shah '56, Nepal's first woman ambassador, shares her story with granddaughter Aarya Shah '23.
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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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Merri Rosenberg '78 ponders how to step aside gracefully after 40 years of leading.
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Three Barnard alumnae — Brenda Aiken ’77, ’81PS, Maryam Banikarim ’89, ’93SIPA, ’93BUS, and Jolyne Caruso- FitzGerald ’81 — were among 10 alumni honored with a 2019 Columbia Alumni Medal at the University Commencement on May 22.
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The AABC Fellowship for Graduate Study has been awarded annually to outstanding graduating seniors and alumnae by the Fellowship for Graduate Study Committee of the Alumnae Association of Barnard College.
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Our alumnae community got a little bigger and bolder with the graduation of the Class of 2019.
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Barnard recognized nine alumnae at Reunion for their career accomplishments and dedicated service to the College and its graduates