Haverford Headlines


  • A former "science geek" finds her bliss as a book editor.
  • Voytek is the winner of the Million Dollar Challenge, a contest meant to spark new enterprises in marketing and communications. He'll use the money to launch a nonprofit national education institute for digital arts and sciences.

  • A group of pioneering curators, scholars, artists and writers—some of whose work is deeply informed by their own disabilities—comes to campus for the Feb. 25 symposium In/Visible: Disability and the Arts.
  • Details about fees and financial aid for the coming academic year.
  • An annual event honors the accomplishments of students who have been awarded named scholarships and helps to educate them on the selection process. Currently, 50 percent of Haverford students receive financial aid from the College thanks to a need-blind admission policy.
  • The Haverford House fellowship and the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship are supporting a two-day conference, organized by Cara Curtis '10, to give a human rights framework to local economic justice issues.
  • Cairo resident Samuel Gerstin '10 recorded an account of life in his neighborhood, just a seven-minute walk from Tahrir Square, as the revolution unfolded.
  • A trio of guest speakers will lead a series of dialogues on international peace as part of the ‘Perpetual Peace' Project, which comes to campus for a public event on Feb. 10.
  • Silver writes about finding what Emily Dickinson called a poet's "flood subject" after she was diagnosed with cancer.
  • Stichter shared insights about building a career as a sculptor and her techniques for creating large-scale works out of clay during an artist residency at Washington State University.

  • A two-hour interview with Julian Assange that became a Forbes magazine cover article lands a book deal for Andy Greenberg '04.
  • In an essay they co-authored for a new book, Professors of Biology Jenni Punt and Philip Meneely, and President Stephen Emerson, look at Haverford's focus on undergraduate research, and the College's unique Superlab course, as a way to foster future biomedical investigators.
  • One semester from graduation and considering her next move, Dana Eiselen '11 publishes an essay on her role in her family -- and her family's business in the <em>Philadelphia Inquirer.</em>

  • Former All-American lacrosse player Richard J. Schwab '79 is the founder of a girls' lacrosse league that has grown to more than 250 players on 18 teams
  • Dermansky talks to Cheryl Sternman Rule '92 about her well-received new novel Bad Marie, the pressures of producing a second book and the writing life in general.

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