This course explores the religious origins of the modern penitentiary and religious approaches to incarceration, abolition, and social justice.
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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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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.
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For his thesis, the physics major turned to machine learning and neural networks to classify more than 30,000 spiral galaxies in the universe.
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In this fine arts course, students learn the basic techniques of Chinese calligraphy, its historical roots and development, and its importance in Chinese culture
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Student ensembles’ annual end-of-semester concerts looked and sounded great, thanks to the new Jaharis Recital Hall.
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At a recent event in New York for alumni, families, and friends of the College, hosts Alex Robinson ’96 and Charley Beever ’74 honored President Wendy Raymond by presenting her with a large spoon originally presented to Alexander Harvey Scott, Class of 1886, as the most admired person in his graduating class.
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The Change Finance President and COO has created the first carbon-neutral exchange traded fund (ETF) on the New York Stock Exchange.
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The astrophysics major and film and media studies minor shared the highlights of his summer with a new photography exhibition on the VCAM exhibition wall.
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Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.
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The political science major photographed murals and artwork in Minneapolis last summer, then curated an exhibit of them on campus this fall.
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In this visual studies course students learn the craft of digital video production and post-production through the creation of short video projects focused on the genres of speculation, especially about the future of humans and human societies, as a creative framework.
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Students and faculty gathered for the 14th annual Economics Alumni Forum to hear about the financial and medical state of the world as a result of the pandemic.
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In this first-year writing seminar, students learn to read and write, critically and purposefully, on what has become a new and highly populated public space: the internet.
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The Haverford Department of Philosophy’s first event of the semester focused on undergraduate papers and undergraduate ideas.
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This co-taught seminar explores what it means to “do math ethically,” to emphasize the ways in which mathematics is inherently political, and to think about antiracism in mathematical disciplines.
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The campus home for entrepreneurship and innovation, which sponsors an annual summer incubator for student projects, has launched a year-round program to fund two student ventures each semester.
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The English major was the second speaker in this year’s Young Academic Alumni Lecture Series, detailing her path in academia and current research.
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