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.

A Flu Update From President Emerson

Details about flu care at Haverford.
Update: Haverford & The Economy

VP Dick Wynn writes to the campus community with highlights including Standard & Poor's reaffirmation of our AA rating, good news about the endowment, and the outlook for FY 2011.
An "Inside" Look at the Justice System

Haverford's Inside-Out program, sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, brings bi-co students together with incarcerated women and men at local correctional facilities to learn collaboratively about restorative justice.
Anat Yom-Tov Joins the Haverford Faculty as Assistant Professor of Sociology

A scholar whose research focuses on social stratification and labor market inequality, the quantitative sociologist brings her expertise in data analysis to the College's strong foundation in qualitative sociology.
Feeding the World

The Jewish Exponent recently published an Op Ed piece adapted from a talk American Jewish World Service President Ruth Messinger gave at Haverford in October. Messinger, who spoke about the AJWS's "Fighting Hunger From the Ground Up" campaign, spent four days on campus as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.
Opinion Piece by Karan Shah '09 Appears in Wall Street Journal's India-Based Publication

The former economics major advises India's United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government not to misuse governors for partisan purposes.
Alumni Founders of Video Game Company Aren't Just Playing Around

Halsted Larsson '03 and Tim Ambrogi '04 are two of the creators of Final Form Games, a Philadelphia-based game development company. Their mission is, among other things, to create socially responsible games.
Star Gazing at Haverford

Haverford astronomer Bruce Partridge credits the International Year of Astronomy, a worldwide Galileo celebration, as inspiration for“No Night Without a Telescope.” The event, which Partridge helped launch, features free observing nights at eight Philadelphia area institutions every night of the lunar cycle running through November 24.
Bi-Co Students to Present at Renowned Asian Studies Conference

(clockwise from top left) Andrew McNeal '10, Patrick Lozada '11, Christina Wagner BMC '11 and Elisa Hernandez BMC '10 will deliver papers at the Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR-AAS), Oct. 30-Nov. 1. Undergraduates rarely present at the meeting.
Casey Londergan Receives NIH Grant

The funding will allow the Haverford chemistry professor and his lab to use new methods to study the structural changes that occur when proteins bind to other proteins. The lab's research could shed light on several common diseases associated with disordered proteins.
Jill Stauffer joins Haverford Faculty as Assistant Professor of Philosophy

In addition to teaching, Stauffer, who got to know the College community as a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Hurford Humanities Center, will help shape a new academic concentration in Peace, Justice and Human Rights.
Harlan Jacobson '71 Heads Film Fest

Jacobson, a longtime film critic and scholar, has taken over as artistic director of the Philadelphia Film Festival, which runs through October 19.
Owen Newkirk '02 Came Up From the Bottom

How the Haverford College Astrophysics major became "a voice the fans can connect with" as the radio voice of the Adirondack Phantoms on WNYQ-101.7-FM.
Supporting Student Research

New endowment support has helped the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center fund students pursuing scientific research abroad. A recent presentation for the College's Board of Managers spotlighted their work.
Ruti Talmor is the Hurford Humanities Center's 2009-11 Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow

Talmor is a scholar and filmmaker who explores the art world as an "intercultural zone," where art and objects become global representations of specific cultures.