Bryn Mawr Research Articles

“Words Cluster like Chromosomes”: Marianne Moore and Poetic-Genetic Origination

In 1963, Marianne Moore tells an interviewer, “I never ‘plan’ a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.” Six decades earlier, when Moore first learned about chromosomes, the concept was relatively new. Her education at Bryn Mawr from 1905 to 1909 placed her at the forefront of the understanding of heredity for her time, among those who knew that embryos inherited chromosomes equally from each parent. As her early poetry placed embryonic origins in tension with religious, national, and poetic origins, she posed the embryo both as disruptive to Western origin stories—like the Christian story of the fall—and as generative for her poetics, offering a model for a poetics of iterative and continual origination. Heather Cass White has suggested that the future of Moore criticism depends on recognizing how two schools—“the scientific Moore” and “the Protestant Moore”—are ultimately united around “her pursuit of an aesthetically and ethically tenable ‘original’ poetics.” Moore’s attention to embryos suggests that she was also performing a study of origin itself.

Roberta Ricci, ed. Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions. Proceedings of the Symposium held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8–9, 2016

Roberta Ricci, ed. Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions. Proceedings of the Symposium held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8–9, 2016

“Students find corporate reforms absurd”: Bryn Mawr Student’s Mobilization for Divestment from Apartheid South Africa

In 1986, Bryn Mawr College’s endowment held $8 million or 8.33% of its $96 million endowment in investments tied to Apartheid in South Africa. In line with other major US institutions who believed they must act moral in the face of violent and exploitative system of racial discrimination, the Board of Trustees, the governing body that oversees college operations and finances, proposed a plan in 1985 to divest from subsidiaries of their stock in South Africa if Apartheid was still in place 24 months later in 1987. This came at the tail end of the international movement to oppose and end Apartheid through economic pressures. Bryn Mawr students would reject this plan, occupying buildings and mobilizing campus to disrupt Board meetings. Students said they would not rest until full divestment. Their movement held a shared commitment to ending Apartheid in South Africa and to ending racism in the United States. This paper narrates how the social and economic movements against Apartheid panned out at Bryn Mawr College in the 1980s. Based on my original primary source research at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges’ special collections, I uncover the tactics and frameworks of the student movement to divest as well as the college’s response. Inevitably, the administration took partial measures to accommodate some of the demands of the student movement for divestment. The nexus between the student movement for divestment and the college administration took new heights in 1986. In this year, the students rejected the college’s newly presented plan for divestment, as they understood it as a mere palliative measure in the face of the violence and racism of Apartheid. To understand the student zeitgeist at the time , I illuminate the historical context of the movement against Apartheid by situating it in relation to the preceding anti-War and Civil Rights movements. The later era of activism precipitated into the New Left movement, which was a radical student movement grounded in ideas of political and economic democracy. I provide readers with a primer on the foundations of ethical investment in South Africa. The college’s plan embodied the corporate responsibility ethos of the 80s, which sought to maintain capitalism and pacify very popular alternatives through modest reforms. These principles undergirded Bryn Mawr College’s eventual divestment strategy, which sought to maintain profit and to make a statement about their opposition to the political system of Apartheid. To make this argument, I draw on archival discussions of corporate responsibility politics and the theory of change they espouse which forwarded reform through pressuring the companies they held stock in. I engage in an analysis of discourses emerging from a school-sponsored trip to South Africa in the winter of 1986, which was dubbed a “Peace Mission Fact Finding Trip.” This analysis is essential to understanding student and faculty perspectives, as there was not a consensus on the subject. In the end, Bryn Mawr adopted a divestment plan that was in the name of corporate responsibility. They wrote letters to the corporations they held stock in who had subsidiaries in South Africa, and asked what they were going to do to end Apartheid. The school sold $651,558 in 1986 of stock from the 5 companies, a mere 0.67% of the total endowment.

Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions. Proceedings of the Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8–9, 2016 ed. by Roberta Ricci (review)

Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions. Proceedings of the Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8–9, 2016 ed. by Roberta Ricci (review)

The problem and probability of marriage for alumnae in Progressive Era United States

When Bryn Mawr College opened in 1885, then-president James Rhoads highlighted the precautions taken to ensure that the young women students would remain healthy, in reaction to the publicized warnings of Scottish physician Thomas S. Clouston, M.D. Dr. Clouston’s concern that girls’ higher education would damage their health epitomized a growing anxiety around the status of wives and mothers at a time of increased educational opportunities for the so-called ‘fairer sex’. To counter these opinions, college alumnae and administrators turned to statistics. Through a combination of published statistics and informal anecdotes, this article provides an in-depth study of how marriage data were solicited, tabulated, and framed at Bryn Mawr College during the Progressive Era, contributing a detailed case-study to the historiography on the period’s debates over educated women. The tension between marriage and a career in research was acutely apparent to the women in academia who were at once responsible for the statistical analysis and among the subjects under investigation. While the survey design and published results emphasized the desired outcome of marriage after graduation, these same documents also offered space for emerging professional trajectories.

Medea/Media: a glitchy counterfactual

Abstract James Ijames, the winner of a 2022 Pulitzer prize for Fat Ham, loosely based on Hamlet, has just presented a new realization of Medea, Media/Medea, which had its world premiere at Bryn Mawr College and the Community College of Philadelphia in April 2023. This article provides a reading of it, addressing the themes of irony, queer ‘authenticity’, acting, and mothering through the framing of the ‘glitchy counterfactual’ — a conceit we borrow from Legacy Russell’s manifesto for a new Black cyberfeminism to approach the most blatant innovation in Ijames’s version, the unfulfilled infanticide. This astonishing change in the script, which tightly connects Medea with her onomastic negativity and queer unbecoming, urges us to reflect upon survival and survivance in an anti-Black world; it might yield a reckoning in line with Kevin Quashie’s notion of ‘subjunctivity’, Black ‘aliveness’.

THE POWER OF INTERCONNECTION: FRANCES HESSELBEIN IN HER OWN WORDS

AbstractThe author, Professor, and Dean Emeritus at Bryn Mawr College's Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, writes about her long‐standing relationship with Frances Hesselbein. The article revolves around an interview in late 2016 between Bailey and Hesselbein for a special issue of the multidisciplinary journal Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping. According to the author, the “issue focused on the relationship between the individual and organizations…” and it centers around Hesselbein's professional career, beginning with her leadership of the Girl Scouts of the USA in the mid‐1970s.

Relocating mathematics: a case of moving texts between the front and back of mathematics

As mathematics departments in the United States began to shift toward standards of original research at the end of the nineteenth century, many adopted journal clubs as forums to engage with new periodical literature. The Bryn Mawr Mathematics Journal Club, maintained episodically between 1896 and 1924, began as a supplement to the graduate course offerings. Each semester student and professor participants focused on a single disciplinary area or surveyed what had been published lately. The Notebooks containing these reports were stored on the open shelves of the college library. These collectively composed documents record ways in which graduate students transcribed and interpreted contemporary literature from the front to the back of mathematics. This article will consider the entries of a single student in which published mathematics was rewritten for a local audience and how the process of relocation animated research at Bryn Mawr.

The Vortex That Unites Us: Versions of Totality in Russian Literature by JacobEmery. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2023. 228 pp. $54.95. ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐6938‐2

The Russian ReviewEarly View BOOK REVIEW The Vortex That Unites Us: Versions of Totality in Russian Literature by Jacob Emery. Ithaca: Northern Illinois University Press, 2023. 228 pp. $54.95. ISBN 978-1-5017-6938-2 José Vergara, Corresponding Author José Vergara [email protected] Bryn Mawr College Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author José Vergara, Corresponding Author José Vergara [email protected] Bryn Mawr College Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 22 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12524Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation

R. Ross Holloway, 1934–2022

R. Ross Holloway, 1934–2022

“Forcing Every Thought and Action into Responsibility”: An Unpublished Curriculum Vitae from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Fiancé Maria von Wedemeyer. Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Jutta Koslowski

This is the first publication of the Curriculum Vitae of Maria von Wedemeyer, fiancé of the famous theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who has been executed by the Nazis just a few days before the end of World War II as a resistance fighter against Hitler. Maria wrote this CV in the year 1948 at the age of 23, when she applied for a scholarship at Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia. In Germany, she had studied mathematics at the University of Göttingen, and she intended to pursue studies in physics and history in order to become a teacher. Here application was approved and she remained in the United States for good: She was twice married and divorced, raised two sons and embarked on a career in the emerging computer industry before she died on Boston at the age of 53 in with cancer. Whereas Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s popularity is still growing more than 75 years after his death, little is known about his family background. This is especially true for the women among his relatives – despite of their crucial importance for the resistance movement. Maria von Wedemeyer kept silent about her relationship with Dietrich for the most part of her life, trying to leave behind the terrible strokes of fate which she had experienced as a young woman: Her beloved father and brother were killed as soldiers at the Eastern Front in Russia, her family’s state in Brandenburg was destroyed by the Red Army and her fiancé was killed by the Gestapo. However, Maria relates how deeply she was shaped by the Christian faith of her parents and about the aspirations she has to educate a new generation for a better future.

Bryn Mawr College Matriculation Exams from a Century Ago

Bryn Mawr College Matriculation Exams from a Century Ago

The Flip-flop Toys of Saarenald T. S. Yaawaisan in the Bryn Mawr Art and Artifact Collections

The Flip-flop Toys of Saarenald T. S. Yaawaisan in the Bryn Mawr Art and Artifact Collections

If you could recommend one book to an undergraduate student interested in Austrian Studies, what would it be, and why?

If you could recommend one book to an undergraduate student interested in Austrian Studies, what would it be, and why? JAS Editors For this issue's JAS Extra, we have something a little different that we hope will be not only interesting but also useful. If you're like us, you are always tinkering with your syllabi and looking for that book that will really get students excited about the material. And what better way to get new ideas than by asking our colleagues? So we asked our editorial board members the question posed at the top of this page: "If you could recommend one book to an undergraduate student interested in Austrian Studies, what would it be, and why?" You can find their recommendations below. Some of the titles will be familiar and may appear on your syllabi already; others may be less expected. Perhaps some will even inspire you to add them to your own (always growing) reading list or fill that gap in your own education of which you are guiltily aware. In any case, we hope there will be something here for everyone and are grateful to the colleagues who kindly shared their suggestions with us. Katherine Arens, University of Texas—Austin claudio magris, danubio Danubio (1986), translated from the Italian as Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea (1988), is the book that introduces the various histories of the regions implicated by the Habsburg monarchy, cast as a travelogue of a journey from the river's source in Bavaria down to its delta at the Black Sea. Magris combines myths, fairy tales, histories of many countries and eras, and stories of encounters to show how the cultures of Central Europe are not a melting pot but rather a tapestry that needs unravelling. [End Page 71] In recapitulating a "grand tour," he shows how histories and studies create mythical lands with real lives. If you want to see a philosopher's version of the same trip, look for the 2004 documentary about Martin Heidegger called The Ister (available on DVD), made by David Barison and Daniel Ross. It shows how the philosopher used the river to tell stories about German nationalism, based on Friedrich Hölderlin's ode of the title. Steven Beller, Independent Scholar allan janik and stephen toulmin, wittgenstein's vienna Approaching its 50th anniversary, this book is still a—indeed, the most—highly recommendable introduction to the cultural and intellectual history of Vienna 1900, which remains a central topic of Austrian Studies. It was written under the influence of Carl Schorske's concept of fin-de-siècle Vienna (even though it preceded Schorske's own magnum opus of 1980). But by approaching the subject from a different substantial question (the deeper meaning of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Philosophicus) and with a somewhat different disciplinary approach (the much more context-based History of Ideas), Janik and Toulmin ended up presenting a different world of Vienna 1900 than that of Schorske. The dialogue between the two perspectives is one that has been a great motor for academic and intellectual insight and discovery ever since. I do not think one can really understand modern Austrian Studies without having read this book. Many of its details, and even some of its arguments (including those derived from Schorske), have been shown by later research to be imperfect or misleading, but its methodology of looking for connections between the thought of Wittgenstein and others within the context of the Habsburg Monarchy and Central Europe—and even beyond—is one that was immensely fruitful, and it remains a model for contemporary research. Michael Burri, Bryn Mawr College adam kożuchowski, the afterlife of austria-hungary: the image of the habsburg monarchy in interwar europe On November 11, 1918, the day that the armistice agreement formally ended World War I, Sigmund Freud wrote that "Austria-Hungary is no more. I would [End Page 72] not wish to live elsewhere. There is no question of emigration for me. I shall continue to live with the torso and imagine it is the entirety." In The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary: The Image of the Habsburg Monarchy in Interwar Europe (2013...

Jeans and their Fashionable Meanings: Revisiting Beverly Gordon's Cultural Conceptual Framework

Jeans and their Fashionable Meanings: Revisiting Beverly Gordon's Cultural Conceptual Framework

148 Charles Street: A Novel by Tracy Daugherty

Reviewed by: 148 Charles Street: A Novel by Tracy Daugherty Max Frazier Tracy Daugherty, 148 Charles Street: A Novel. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2022. 144 pp. Paper, $19.95; e-book, $19.95. Tracy Daugherty fictionalizes the friendship between well-known historical literary figures Willa Cather and Elizabeth “Elsie” Shepley Sergeant in 148 Charles Street, a title lifted from Barbara Rotundo’s 1971 article in American Heritage by the same name. An author with an impressive background in writing biographies and novels, surprisingly Daugherty seems to miss the mark in his characterization of these two women and offers sloppy use of real-life content to create his fictional narrative that flounders in its search for a higher purpose. Daugherty opens with acknowledgments that first thank Roger Angell “who was always very kind to me, if (I think) a little irritated at my callowness” (ix). He adds, “we never spoke of his aunt, Elsie Sergeant,” and yet Daugherty claims, “I felt I got to know a bit of her through him” (ix). Maybe that bit of knowledge actually came from Angell’s memoir, Let Me Finish, and the brief mention of Cather there. Knowing this scene is important to understanding 148 Charles Street. On an afternoon in 1921, Cather, Sergeant, and Angell’s mother, Katharine Sergeant Angell, gather for a small party where the two women offer differing perspectives on Cather. Roger Angell quotes from Sergeant’s memoir to characterize that [End Page 84] Sergeant found that Cather made “a friend feel welcomed [and] was most charming.” Katharine Angell insists in a letter the author found that the two women only wanted to talk about their own works, but Cather won out over Sergeant. Angell’s mother adds, “it soon became evident to me that Miss Cather was there for another reason—to get factual detail and background for her own novel in progress [. . .] One of Ours” (106; emphasis original). Roger Angell’s mother resented the possibility that Cather might be using Sergeant’s tragic experience of being wounded by an unexploded ordnance when visiting a former WWI battlefield, and apparently Tracy Daugherty resents the idea as well. Roger Angell does not offer a position. For whatever the reason, the novel is particularly unflattering about Cather. One redeeming quality in 148 Charles Street is how Daugherty renders physical setting, especially in the New Mexico Southwest, in ways reminiscent of Cather’s own skill. Beyond this skill in landscape, other details make the novel nearly unbearable. Writing with the bias gained from Angell’s memoir and possibly a dislike of Cather’s novels beginning in his college days, Daugherty tips the scales to present Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant as a singular heroine, flat as a character in her enthusiasm as a political reformer, journalist, and the butt of Cather’s disappointment. On the other hand, he takes the Willa Cather figure scholars know to have been vibrant and engaging, narrowing in on a grim and painful part of her life to characterize her as dull and inflexible. He at least opens the possibility that she could have been more in her refrain, “Which Willa am I?” (116). The work has inaccuracies such as omitting the presence of a Bryn Mawr friend in her home for at least part of Sergeant’s New Mexico time and the timing of Cather’s injury to her hand. Daugherty excuses inaccurate plot points under the guise of fiction with his flippant disclaimer that “facts, chronologies, or biographies” are “tweaked and violated freely [ . . ] in service to the novel’s narrative and themes” (143). One has to question why he needs real historical figures to service the narrative and themes that might arguably boil down to the bickering between two strong women. The prejudice in the writing can only serve Daugherty’s [End Page 85] desire to portray a maudlin, one-sided Cather, which then calls into question the reliability of Sergeant’s portrait. Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this novel is the many references to accurate, yet cherry-picked, material from Cather’s work, which lends a sheen of verisimilitude to the narrative. The content required Daugherty’s close engagement with Cather’s work and life...

Editorial introductions.

Current Opinion in Endocrinology and Diabetes was launched in 1994, with Obesity added to the title in 2007. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of endocrinology and diabetes are divided into 9 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal's Editor and Section Editors for this issue. EDITOR IN CHIEF David M. HarlanDavid M. HarlanDr David M. Harlan is a graduate of the University of Michigan (Bachelor of Science) and the Duke University School of Medicine, USA. He completed his internal medicine internship and residency at the Duke University Medical Center. This was before serving for 4 years as a staff internist at the Navy Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA. He then returned to Duke for his fellowship training in diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolism. In 1991 he established his laboratory at the Navy Medical Research Institute, USA, where he rose to become the Director of Combat Casualty Care. He was then appointed to the faculty of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. In 1999, he moved his laboratory to the National Institutes of Health, where he became the Diabetes Branch Chief within the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases. In 2010, he moved to the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, USA, where he is the William and Doris Krupp Professor of Medicine and Diabetes Division Chief. Dr Harlan also co-directs the UMass Diabetes Center of Excellence. His research interests all relate to diabetes and include the immunopathogenesis underlying type 1 diabetes and improved care delivery models for the disease. SECTION EDITORS Matthew FreebyMatthew FreebyMatthew Freeby, MD, is Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, USA. Dr Freeby received his MD from Virginia Commonwealth University, USA and completed his internal medicine internship and residency training at the University of California San Diego. He subsequently completed training in an endocrinology fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, USA. Dr Freeby is involved in community leadership for the American Diabetes Association and serves on planning committees for the Endocrine Society's annual meetings. His research has focused on a number of diabetes related topics including non-invasive in vivo measurement of beta cell mass as well as the evaluation of general care and complications. He has also collaborated with researchers evaluating iPS as a method for beta cell replacement in type 1 and other rare forms of diabetes. Lynne L. LevitskyLynne L. LevitskyDr Lynne L. Levitsky is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Yale Medical School, USA. She received her pediatric training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, USA, and at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA. She was trained in pediatric endocrinology at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, USA. She was a Pediatric Endocrinologist and Professor of Pediatrics at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, USA, until 1990. She then came to Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, as Chief of the Pediatric Endocrine Unit and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is now Emeritus Chief and co-director of the Turner Syndrome Wellness Center, USA. Her research interests in carbohydrate metabolism span laboratory studies of transcriptional control of beta cell function, and a role as an investigator in the NIH-sponsored TODAY treatment study of type 2 diabetes in the young. She is a past President of the Pediatric Endocrine Society and was the first head of the Education Council for that organization.

A Peculiar Kind of Particularity: Plants and Animals in Marianne Moore’s Early Poetry

As an undergraduate studying biology at Bryn Mawr College in the messy aftermath of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, Marianne Moore found herself surrounded by renowned biologists like Thomas Hunt Morgan, Jacques Loeb, Nettie Maria Stevens, and David Hilt Tennent – all of whom were highly invested in debates concerning the epistemological validity of empiricist and essentialist approaches to the natural world. As her biology class manuscripts reveal, these debates had a profound influence on Moore’s early poetry (1908–1924), especially when it involved plants and animals. Eager to perceive other living organisms with precision, Moore rejected the demands of wider vision and focused her inquisitive intensity on the particular properties of individuals. The more that Moore attended to these particulars in her poetry, the more pressure she was able to place on the categorical structures that biologists impose upon organisms for the sake of a stable scientific nomenclature.

Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytskyi: Istoriia intelektuala dir. by Iryna Shatokhina (review)

Reviewed by: Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytskyi: Istoriia intelektuala dir. by Iryna Shatokhina Ernest Gyidel (bio) Ivan Lysiak-Rudnytskyi: Istoriia intelektuala, Directed by Iryna Shatokhina, written by Iryna Shatokhina and Yuri Shapoval (2019). https://youtu.be/vMbJIwubm58. Ivan L. Rudnytsky (1919–1984) was one of the most prominent Ukrainian émigré historians and public intellectuals in the West during the Cold War. He was a product of several outstanding circles and institutions – his mother, Milena Rudnytska, and her brothers, the Ukrainian Academic Gymnasium in Lviv, from which he graduated in 1937, Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, where he studied law in 1937–1939, Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, where he obtained a masters degree in 1942, German Charles University in Prague, from which he received a doctorate in 1945, the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, where he pursued a degree until 1951, and Columbia University in New York, where he was a graduate student until 1953. As a university student, Rudnytsky studied law, political [End Page 297] science, international relations, sociology, philosophy, and history. Very few from his generation could boast of a better education. After his arrival as a married man in the United States in 1951, Rudnytsky decided to make a living by becoming a professional historian. Following unfinished PhD studies at Columbia and two and a half years of work as a bus inspector, he went on to teaching positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1953–1954), La Salle College (1956–1967), Bryn Mawr College (1964–1965), the American University in Washington, DC (1967–1971), and the University of Alberta (1971–1984). He was closely involved with two Ukrainian émigré academic institutions: Shevchenko Scientific Society in Europe and the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in New York until the mid-1960s. In 1976, together with Manoly Lupul and George Luckyj, he became a founding director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, serving as an associate director for three years. Rudnytsky prided himself on not being an ivory tower academic, often participating in Ukrainian community events in both the United States and Canada and making radio and TV appearances. The role of a public intellectual appealed to him. Arguably, he made the greatest impact not with teaching, administrative work, or public involvement, but with his scholarship. As a historian, he was primarily interested in political and intellectual history. The defining features of Rudnytsky's historical writing were wide erudition (especially in European history), sophisticated presentation, and broad contextualization. Collections of his essays have appeared in Ukrainian (1973, 1994, 2019), English (1987), Russian (2007), and Polish (2012).1 Several of Rudnytsky's articles remain required reading in modern Ukrainian history.2 In 2019 the centenary of his birth was marked by many events: academic panels and conferences in Europe and North America, republication [End Page 298] of his historical essays and publication of his diaries in Ukraine, and last but not least a documentary about his life made by the creative team consisting of the Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Shatokhina and the historian Yuri Shapoval. The film, which is a part of their documentary series Rozsiani (Scattered) about twentieth-century Ukrainian émigrés, was originally premiered at several venues in Ukraine in fall 2019, shown on the Ukrainian television channel Espreso.TV in October 2019, and then released on YouTube in February 2020, cut down from two hours to ninety-nine minutes. The film appears to be based on three types of sources. First, Rudnytsky's own writings are quoted throughout the documentary. Second, the filmmakers conducted personal interviews with Rudnytsky's son, Peter L. Rudnytsky, with people who were Rudnytsky's colleagues, students or had simply met him in person – Jars Balan, Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Marco Carynnyk, John-Paul Himka, Raisa Ivanchenko, Zenon Kohut, Manoly Lupul, Myron Pyzyk, Roman Solchanyk, Frank Sysyn. The filmmakers also talked to researchers who worked either on Rudnytsky (Ernest Gyidel, Yaroslav Hrytsak) or his mother Milena (Myroslava Diadiuk). Third, they relied on audio, textual, and visual records from institutional and private archives. Most of these documents had never before been shown to the general public. The film covers Rudnytsky's family and educational background, the major milestones of his personal life and academic...

Characterizing Patients Referred For Ambulatory Rehabilitation Post COVID-19

<h3>Research Objectives</h3> to describe baseline characteristics of patients referred for outpatient rehabilitation therapies during the first 7 months of Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital's Post-COVID Recovery Program. <h3>Design</h3> Retrospective cohort. <h3>Setting</h3> Outpatient rehabilitation clinic. <h3>Participants</h3> All patients referred to the BMRH Post-COVID Recovery Program from May – December 2021, excluding those with neurodegenerative conditions and those already receiving physical, occupational, and/or speech therapy for a pre-existing condition at the time of their COVID-19 diagnosis. <h3>Interventions</h3> Not applicable. <h3>Main Outcome Measures</h3> This study focuses on describing baseline characteristics of a relatively new clinical population, ergo there is no main outcome measure. <h3>Results</h3> Of 116 patients referred to the program, 94 (81.0%) were assessed by at least one therapy discipline. Of patients assessed, 72.3% were assessed by more than one discipline, and 37.2% were evaluated by all three: PT, OT, and Speech. The mean duration from COVID-19 diagnosis to referral was 203.2 days (SD=160.11). The majority of patients, 66.7%, were not hospitalized for COVID-19. Among patients' chief complaints, the top five were cognitive issues (76.6%), decreased endurance (75.5%), decreased strength (62.8%), pain (56.4%), and balance deficits (50.0%). The most common premorbid conditions were anxiety/depression (37.0%), hypertension (35.3%), lipid disorders (33.6%), current/former smoker (31.0%), and migraines (21.6%). Average body mass index at time of COVID-19 diagnosis was 31.33 (SD=8.89), with 29.15 and 25.88 at the median and first quartile, respectively, indicating that the majority of patients fell within CDC ranges for overweight or obesity. Cognitive complaints were correlated with female assigned sex, lower levels of care received for COVID illness, and preserved strength. Decreased endurance was correlated with higher BMI, lipid disorder, higher level of care, and other physical complaints. Balance deficits were correlated with hypertension and longer duration. <h3>Conclusions</h3> These results shed light on a relatively new patient population and their rehabilitation needs. As SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread, more and more patients will seek rehabilitation services as part of their recovery. Understanding the characteristics of these patients is key to developing and refining effective treatment protocols. <h3>Author(s) Disclosures</h3> Nothing to disclose.