Following a recent Plenary resolution, President Kim Benston signed a pledge that the College would move toward spending 20% of its food budget on ethical, local, sustainable food by the year 2020.
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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.
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The computer science major heads to Virginia Tech for a Ph.D. focused on supporting neurodivergent students in K-12 computer science education.
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Zhang, a psychology major, neuroscience minor, and Velay scholar, is heading to Ontario Veterinary College.
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Though Michael Weber’s first Pinwheel Day at Haverford was marred by the disappearance of the pinwheels from Founders Green early in the morning, the campus community rallied to still celebrate the springtime tradition.
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This course, which explores how representations of religion arise in comics and graphic novels. is co-taught by Haverford and Swarthmore religion professors and features a weekly “making” lab with artist-in-residence JT Waldman.
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A fine arts course in which students use a high-tech method to create images, and use a low-tech method to print them.
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Claire Dinh '16, Anna Catherine Bitners '16, Emily Bamforth (BMC '16), and Carol Lee Diallo '19 are working this spring and summer on a grassroots "storybanking" project to bring awareness to healthcare access inequality.
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Though the College hasn’t fielded a varsity team since 1972, a new club began biweekly flag football games this past fall.
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The chemistry major and education minor will live in Taiwan next year, where she hopes to reconnect with some relatives.
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This psychology course examins the links between the natural environment and people’s behavior using lenses of cognitive, social, and personality psychology, with a focus on conservation behavior and environmentalism.
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The dean of Whitman College uses Haverford's recent Public Policy Forum as just one example of how a liberal arts education prepares students for careers in public service.
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The seniors are committed to learning more about the country's healthcare system during their time teaching English in Germany.
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A seminar, taught by a visiting professor and alum, on the interrelations between literature and the history of science.
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What better way to learn about Congress than from one of its own members?
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At Haverford's 178th Commencement, held on May 14, the College will award honorary degrees to anti-poverty policy expert Robert Greenstein and prison-issues activist Laura Magnani.
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Poet-performer Dr. Amanda Kemp came back to campus for a second time this year as Haverford’s Friend in Residence.
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Visiting alumni presentations now online… Upcoming events on and off campus… Sustainable Giving… Welcome new AAEC members.
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