Haverford Headlines

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.

Summer Centered: Isabella Otterbein '26 Combines Art and Activism to Drive Awareness of Crisis Pregnancy Centers

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Summer Centered, Students, Campus, Centers

One of three Hurford Center creative interns, Otterbein is spending the summer as a programs intern for Abortion Access Front and creating a zine designed to educate the College community.
Seun Eisape '24 is Haverford’s First-Ever GEM Fellow

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Alumni, awards

Eisape will pursue a PhD at the University of California Berkeley to explore the potential of brain-computer interfaces and natural language processing.
What They Learned: Isabel Thornberry ’24

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Alumni

Thornberry’s thesis focuses on oxygen minimum zones in our oceans. It builds on work she engaged with through a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fellowship program.
What They Learned: Ben Bergerson ’24

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Alumni

For his thesis, the physics major turned to machine learning and neural networks to classify more than 30,000 spiral galaxies in the universe.
What They Learned: Shahla Mukhtar ’24

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Alumni

Mukhtar’s thesis explores the production of type II polyketides, diverse and chemically active natural products that hold promise as anticancer and antibacterial agents.
What They Learned: Clay Killoren ’24

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Alumni

For his thesis, Killoren chose to focus on affordable housing in San Francisco, one of the nation’s most expensive real estate markets.
Club Life: The Haverford Ornithological Club

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Campus, Students

While birdwatching is the club’s core activity, with weekly walks around campus, members also delve into bird biology, photography, ethics, conservation, and more.
What They Learned: Maya Antonio ’24

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Alumni

For her thesis, Antonio examined bilingual community education centers, where teaching and learning transcend the traditional classroom space.
What They Learned: Jian Wei ’24

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Alumni

Wei’s thesis examines the destruction and rebirth of Los Angeles’ Chinatown and the vision and agency of second-generation Chinese American civic leaders and architects who realized it.
What They Learned: Charlie Crawford ’24

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Alumni

Crawford’s interest in machine bias and the ethical use of AI led to a thesis that explores the impact of technologies like ChatGPT on the entertainment industry.
What They Learned: Bela Khanna ’24

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Alumni

Khanna wrote “Playing House,” which explores themes of freedom and futurity against the backdrop of masculine violence and psychological imprisonment.
A Journey of Reconciliation

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Faculty, staff, Students

On a spring break trip organized by Haverford’s Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Access division, students, staff, and faculty got an in-depth look at the Civil Rights Trail, and a glimpse into the country’s fractured history.
What They Learned: Sophia Wagner ’24

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Alumni

Wagner’s thesis and capstone project, a quilt featuring prints of native Pennsylvania plants, are both rooted in environmental justice.
Charlotte Scott '21 Receives the 2024 Augustus Taber Murray Fellowship

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Alumni, awards

The fellowship will support Scott as she pursues her PhD in English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Something to Declare

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Alumni, Students

In 2016, Kevin Liao ’18 marched into the registrar’s office to loudly declare his major. Little did he know, his actions would start a new tradition at Haverford.