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On Sunday, May 11th at 8pm Bryn Athyn College Dance Ensemble will present their Spring Dance Concert at the Mitchell Performing Arts Center. Admission is free. For more information, please contact Jessica Bostock, director, or visit the Dance Ensemble page. 

For the past year the Science Division of Bryn Athyn College, in cooperation with the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust (PERT), has been working on a biology project tracking the movements of white-tailed deer in suburban Philadelphia. On April 19th, the group (which includes two Bryn Athyn College students, four Bryn Athyn College faculty members, and two members of the PERT team) presented a poster of their research . . . 

History major Lamar Odhner has been awarded a scholarship to attend the 2008 Williamsburg Teacher Institute in Early American History. This internship is unique to Bryn Athyn College, and will provide Lamar with an opportunity to join teachers and historians in an intensive one-week course focusing on an interdisciplinary approach to teaching history. 

Annika Fitzpatrick, a senior in Biology at Bryn Athyn College, has recently been accepted into the Molecular and Cell Biology PhD programs at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, where she plans to study cancer, virology, viral genetics, or neurobiology. 

At their last meeting the Bryn Athyn College Board of Trustees unanimously approved plans for two new buildings on the Bryn Athyn College Campus: the Grant R. Doering Center and a welcome center for admissions offices and student services.  

Since 1990, the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute has helped over 4,400 teachers enliven their classrooms through the use of primary sources, artifact analysis, and engaging teaching strategies that bring excitement and energy to the study of history. Bryn Athyn College is proud to be able to offer one full scholarship each year to an undergraduate student to attend this institute. Currently this is the only opportunity in the country for an undergraduate student to experience this unique program. 

Bryn Athyn College students who are interested in Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) can now enroll in one-year, two-year, and four-year programs. All instruction takes place at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Courses are offered for academic credit. Qualified applicants can receive scholarships from the Air Force to cover tuition, lab fees, books, and a tax-free monthly stipend. 

In mid-September Martha Gyllenhaal, assistant professor of fine arts and art history at Bryn Athyn College, presented a paper at the conference entitled "Plaster Casts: Making, Collecting and Displaying From Classical Antiquity to the Present," which was hosted by Worcester College, Oxford University, England. Professor Gyllenhaal's talk, "Rembrandt's artful use of plaster casts: New insights into seventeenth-century studio practices and working methods," is also the topic of her doctoral dissertation, which will be completed within the year. 

The first phase of the several-year plan to refurbish and expand Bryn Athyn College facilities began over the summer and is now fully underway. Students arriving on campus for orientation and registration will find many old footpaths replaced and a slew of new landscaping already completed. Pendleton Hall Commons is also being completely refinished with new siding and flooring, new furnishings, and a multi-media screen. Other areas of campus will still be under construction through the beginning of the school year- several trees are due to be planted soon, new lighted outdoor volleyball and basketball courts will be completed near the residence halls this fall, and Pendleton Hall Chapel is receiving new carpet, new siding, new seats, and a new sound-system.