Haverford Headlines


  • This summer Rebecca Fisher '17 is interning with the Michigan Land Use Institute, working on the organization's communications and development projects.
  • The playwright and author is interviewed about her new book, <em>Tween Hobo</em>, based on her popular Twitter account of the same name.

  • A recent recipient for her Urban Death Project, Spade is featured in a slideshow alongside the other 2014 Echoing Green Climate Fellowship recipients.

  • Pomeranz, the deputy director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center, spoke about U.S.-Russia relations following the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine.

  • Boughn will be heading off to Princeton University for a final sabbatical year before his“official” retirement, but we caught up with him for a chat about his nearly three decades at Haverford.
  • For 33 years, Stephen L. Klineberg '61 has been tracking Houston's changes with an annual survey that has become the longest running study of a U.S. metropolitan area.
  • Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Danielle Lillehaugen and her students have created the Zapotec Talking Dictionary. Their aim: to help save this endangered language of Mexico.
  • The current University College London student writes about sheep and the relation to local food in Iceland, a country she first visited on her <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/48941/51">Watson Fellowship</a>.

  • The director of public programming at Lincoln Center, who, this summer, has booked 130 acts for the two seasonal outdoor festivals he oversees at the performing arts center, is profiled.

  • "I'm currently on a road I never wanted to take: that of full-time, professional patient," writes Caven, who was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at age 10.
  • J.D. Bridges '02 started rowing at Haverford. He's now a renowned coach for the sport.
  • The research, published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, shows that an oil dispersant used in the cleanup efforts in the Gulf can persist in the environment for up to four years.
  • Taylor River Side Farm, which Peter and his wife and daughter recently returned to, is profiled. The farm in Cinnaminson, N.J., has been in the Taylor family since 1720.

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Astronomy John Bochanski and his team, which includes Associate Professor of Astronomy Beth Willman, published a letter in Astrophysical Journal Letters detailing the discovery of two cool red giants which are more than 700,000 light years away.
  • Tom Kessinger, a beloved figure on campus during his tenure as Haverford College president from 1988 to 1996, has died at age 73.

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