Whalen, a marine biologist, investigates the silent chemical conversations beneath the waves and how they might hold the key to new medical breakthroughs.
An image of a nematode captured using a microscope equipped for flourescence detection. Learn more about our facilities and instruments.
Professor Rob Fairman's research group, including Emma Robinson '19, Jillian Wu '20, Sophia Nelson '20, Ash Arango '21, Karl Vosatka '18, and Shayan Hashemi '19, visited Longwood Gardens.
Students from Kristen Whalen’s “Advanced Topics in Biology of Marine Life” class spent a week over winter break exploring tropical coral ecosystems in Roatán, Honduras. Photo: Patrick Montero.
Haverford's Department of Biology emphasizes a foundation in molecular and cellular biology and offers a research-based curriculum stressing the experimental method as a teaching and learning tool.