Swarthmore News

The front yard of the Pollacks' Swarthmore home became a blank canvas when a tree was uprooted.

Bob Posocco had come close, but had never won a major local golf championship until Saturday.

Tripeds visit the library! Posted by Pamela Harris on June 26, 2009 at 4:30 PM Posted in Exhibits , Swarthmore A trio of tripeds are currently on display in McCabe Library.

Nearly 30 private and state-related colleges and trade schools in the Philadelphia area have agreed to participate in a program that will give far-reaching financial aid to veterans who have had active service since 9/11. They are among more than 700 schools nationwide that have reached agreements with the Department of Veterans Affairs to take ...

Philip D. Curtin, a historian of the African slave trade who after World War II was a leading figure in reviving the neglected field of African history, has died.

Ray and Nancy MacNair recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. They met at Oberlin College, Ohio, and were married on June 13, 1959, at the Swarthmore, PA Friends Meeting .

Director, actor, assistant director, second-unit director, master property man. And now add 'author' to the long list of Micky Moore's entertainment-industry endeavors.

FROM vest-pocket urban green spaces to colossal Edens like Longwood, the former du Pont property that sprawls over 1,050 acres, the Philadelphia area is laden with public gardens .

The Music Study Club of the Stroudsburgs' annual scholarship benefit program will be held 2 p.m. Sunday at Stroudsburg United Methodist Church, 547 Main St., Stroudsburg.

It may seem that the area is flooded with college graduates these days as commencement after commencement is celebrated, but it's nothing like it could be, according to a new national report.

Soon after they became empty-nesters, Shari and Jan Almquist devised a plan for this new phase of their lives.

Ruth Miller remembers seeing the list of unclaimed property owners listed in the Lebanon Daily News on May 8, but she didn't bother checking to see if she knew any of the hundreds of names in tiny type that filled the page that day.

That morning last week, Sofia Rivkin-Haas, 22, felt as if her heart were beating "3,000 times per minute." The nattily dressed Swarthmore College honors student from Berkeley, Calif., was about to begin a barrage of 45-minute oral exams - all given by professors she had never met before.

Private colleges got closer to their fall enrollment targets this week, thanks to a finish-line spurt in student sign-ups, but in this tough economic climate, the schools had to put out more in financial aid to bring freshmen in.

Hansi Wang grew up in the Philadelphia area and will graduate from Swarthmore College later this month with a bachelor's degree in political science.

Who was that armed man hiding in a Swarthmore College dorm-room closet? And what did he want? That's what police are trying to determine after a 22-year-old student found him in her Wharton Hall room Monday night.

It follows recent attacks on and around campus. The undergrad wasn't physically hurt, but Swarthmore police chief Brian Craig says she got quite the scare: "When she entered her room, she saw the closet door move.

AT SOME universities, student protests are so commonplace, they could qualify as a minor.

On Friday, May 8 and Sunday, May 10 at 8:00 pm, Susan Hess Modern Dance will present "In Performance: 2008-09 Choreographers Project." For the third and final showing of the 2008-09 In Performance series, resident choreographers Meg Foley, Erin Foreman-Murray, Jumatatu Poe, and Olive Prince will present new pieces they have been crafting in the ...

In her directorial debut, award-winning local actress Sarah Sanford and her ensemble explore food, sex and attention in "Appetite." By A.D. Amorosi For The Inquirer Since 2001, local theatergoers have been agog at the things Sarah Sanford can do.