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Community Care and Resources in Response to Israel-Gaza

At a time of conflict and divide, the College is working to bring students, faculty, and staff together to support one another and engage these important issues through peaceful and constructive dialogue.

Students

Club Life: Haverford Outdoors Club

The Haverford Outdoors Club offers meaningful positive outdoors experience, no matter a student’s experience or financial circumstances.

Two students look at a clipboard as they register to vote in the GIAC. One is wearing a black Haverford t-shirt with the black squirrel on it.

News & Updates

The Run-Up Winds Down

As Election Day nears, Fords embrace their role as a critical voting bloc.

COOL CLASSES: “What Does Ancient Rome Taste Like”

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Faculty

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Robert Santucci delves into Roman eating and explores humanity’s relationship with its food.
Haverford Heritage: Five Questions for Lina Martinez Hernandez

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Faculty

Assistant Professor of Spanish Lina Martinez Hernandez draws on her Latin American and queer identities to inform her teaching and connect with students.
Good Food, Community Building Mark Inaugural QHouse Barbecue

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Campus

Haverford’s community converged on QHouse for a late-September barbecue dinner to kick off the 2023 academic year’s LGBTQIA+-focused events.
Inclusive Excellence Initiative Grant Supports Haverford’s Effort to Build Capacity for Student Belonging

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News

Haverford’s latest grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides $531,000 in funding to focus on student engagement, faculty development, and curricular change.
Where They’re Headed: Naren Roy ’23

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Alumni

Roy majored in social-cultural anthropology and minored in visual studies, concentrating on Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx studies. Post-graduation, he began his role as a Quaker Voluntary Service fellow at the Metrowest Worker Center – Casa del Trabajador, near Boston.
The Haverford-Oppenheimer Connections

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Alumni

Before graduating, Cloyd Marvin '48 joined J. Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos National Laboratory to work on the Manhattan Project. It was there he co-wrote a critical paper that allays a central tension coursing through Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster.
Haverford Heritage: Four Questions for Leslie Castrejon

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staff

As Haverford’s offices and student organizations celebrate Latinx Heritage Month, members of our community share a little about what their heritage means to them and how they manifest it across campus.
Where They’re Headed: Clarice Xu ’23

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Xu, a biology major and psychology minor, is currently working as a research associate with plans to attend medical school next year.
Summer 2023 Faculty Update

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Faculty

Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.
Advancing the Fight for Freedom Through Art

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Campus, Centers

Akeil Robertson leveraged his Hurford Center and VCAM residency to positively impact the lives of incarcerated people. His exhibition “Project Hasan” is on view in VCAM’s Create Space through Friday, Oct. 6.
New Student-Developed App to Sustain High Fashion at Haverford

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Students

Perennial, created through this summer’s Innovation Incubator, seeks to reduce the fashion industry’s disproportionate environmental impact.
COOL CLASSES: “Matters of Taste: France and its Culinary Culture”

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Faculty

In this course, students explore the rich culinary history of France and how it intersects with gender, identity, class, and politics.
Fashion and Advocacy Merge at Inaugural THRIVE Thursday

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Campus

Fashion designer, educator, and nonprofit leader Nasheli Juliana Ortiz-González joined Haverford last week to kick off the series of lunch and learn events.
Where They’re Headed: Eva White ’23

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Alumni

The physics major and environmental studies and global Asian studies double minor wrapped up an internship with Pacific Northwest National Lab and is now settling into a fellowship position with Launch Alaska.
Where They’re Headed: Justin Adler ’23

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The neuroscience major and health studies minor started his full-time job as a cancer researcher at Penn Medicine just two days after graduation. Adler awaits his upcoming matriculation to the University of Rochester School of Medicine.