Bi-College News

Shiraz Harel is a Bryn Mawr senior and one of the founders of The Embrace Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides essential resources to diabetics. Having experienced diabetes herself, Shiraz has worked to help others in the community who are affected by the condition. Today we are taking over the airwaves of Fresh Air with Terry Gross, providing you the latest and greatest news from our campuses and beyond

I'm taking over "Fresh Air"’s role to air out some dirty laundry about the historically women’s institution, Bryn Mawr College.

Olivia Harkins-Finn is a senior at Bryn Mawr College who took her summer research to a whole new level when she discovered how Quaker values have altered architecture to accommodate the female body and temperament. Olivia explains how Quakers were the first to use domestic architecture plans to treat and cure mentally ill patients, plans that were also used as the structural framework for the first buildings at Bryn Mawr College.

So, grab some popcorn and join me on an eerie journey through how architecture has influenced academia.