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  1. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

    Explore campus as a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Tour prominent building and learn more about the campus community.

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    1. Old Library

      Old Library served as the College's library until 1970 and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1991. Today, it is used for public gatherings, lectures, and performances. The spacious Great Hall, which was once a reading room, was inspired by buildings at Oxford University.

      The Dean of Graduate Studies and many humanities faculty have offices in Old Library.

    2. Rhys Carpenter Library

      Every graduate student has a fully wired carrel in the award-winning Rhys Carpenter Library. Inaugurated in 1997, Carpenter is a research library for archaeology, classics, and the history of art containing more than 125,000 volumes and 300 periodicals. An additional two million volumes can be accessed through the Tri-College library consortium of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges.

      Bryn Mawr’s Art and Artifact Collections number more than 50,000 objects. These collections encompass five areas: fine art, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs; archaeology; anthropology; decorative arts; and geology. The collections enhance the educational mission of the College and serve as a resource for diverse academic departments.

    3. Canaday Library

      Canaday Library houses the humanities and social sciences collections, Special Collections, the College Archives, computer labs, the Writing Center, the Lusty Cup Cafe, and many library staff offices.

      Bryn Mawr College has three libraries—Canaday, Carpenter, and Collier—offering diverse, technology-enabled learning spaces and programs, including computer labs with a breadth of discipline-specific software, individual and group study areas, and multimedia equipment lending. Artwork from the collections are displayed throughout the campus, with numerous faculty-, staff-, and student-curated exhibits on view every year.

    4. Campus Center

      As the hub of non-academic life, the Marie Salant Neuberger Centennial Campus Center houses the Bookshop, the College Mailroom, student mailboxes, lounge areas, meeting rooms, Uncommon Grounds Café, and the offices for Conferences and Events, Residential Life, Student Engagement, and New Student Programs. Students, faculty, and staff use the campus center for informal meetings and discussion groups as well as campus-wide social events and activities.

    5. Park Science Center

      The Park Science Center is the core of the academic and research community for mathematics and the sciences at Bryn Mawr College. It houses faculty offices, science classrooms, laboratories, lecture halls, and the Collier Science Library. The facility is a collection of interconnected buildings that has been built over time. Since 2015, Bryn Mawr has taken on the two-part renovation project to ensure that students and faculty remain at the forefront in STEM fields. The renovation transforms the facility to better meet current and future needs of core academic programs, like the state-of-the-art Optics Lab in the Physics Wing. 

    6. Collier Science Library

      Constructed in 1990-91, the library is housed in the Marion Edwards Park Science Building and supports programs in the natural sciences, computer science, and mathematics.

      Bryn Mawr College has three libraries—Canaday, Carpenter, and Collier—offering diverse, technology-enabled learning spaces and programs, including computer labs with a breadth of discipline-specific software, individual and group study areas, and multimedia equipment lending. Artwork from the collections are displayed throughout the campus, with numerous faculty-, staff-, and student-curated exhibits on view every year.

    7. Bern Schwartz Fitness and Athletic Center

      The Bern Schwartz Fitness and Athletic Center is home to the College's basketball, badminton, swimming and volleyball teams. Renovations made in 2010 through the Smart Women, Strong Women initiative created a 50,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility that is home to the College's Athletic and Physical Education Department. The Schwartz Fitness and Athletic Center houses an eight-lane swimming pool; a wood floor for basketball, badminton and volleyball; and a fitness center that includes aerobic equipment, weight-training machines and a multi-purpose room. Augmenting the facility are two playing fields, a practice field, and seven tennis courts.

    8. Goodhart Hall

      Goodhart Hall was constructed in 1926-28 and underwent a major renovation in 2009. It is an important campus resource housing the McPherson Auditorium, Hepburn Teaching Theater, and Goodhart Music Room. Goodhart is used for ceremonial events, official academic year events, student productions, and visiting performers.