Weather Update
Due to the storm, Barnard College closed at 4pm Friday, for non-essential personnel. “Essential personnel" include staff in Facilities, Public Safety and Residence Halls.
Friday evening and weekend classes are cancelled but events are going forward as planned unless otherwise noted. The Athena Film Festival programs are also scheduled to go forward as planned but please check http://athenafilmfestival.com/ for the latest information.
The Barnard Library and Archives closed at 4pm Friday and will remain closed on Saturday, Feb. 9. The Library will resume regular hours on Sunday opening at 10am.
Please be advised that due to the conditions, certain entrances to campus may be closed. The main gate at 117th Street & Broadway will remain open. For further updates on college operations, please check this website, call the College Emergency Information Line 212-854-1002 or check AM radio station 1010WINS.
3:12 PM 02/08/2013
Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman '48, professor emeritus in Barnard's department of mathematics, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A highly accomplished mathematician, Prof. Birman's research focuses on knots, braids, 3-manifolds, and mapping class groups of surfaces as well as related topics in geometric group theory, algorithms, contact geometry, and dynamical systems. She will be inducted at a ceremony on October 6, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, along with other newly-elected members who include of leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts.
Since its founding in 1780, the Academy has elected leading “thinkers and doers” from each generation, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the twentieth. The current membership includes more than 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners. Barnard President Debora Spar is also a member.
View the full list of 2012 Class New Members on the AAAS website.
