Personal experience and a semester abroad in Peru informed the growth and structure of cities major’s thesis.
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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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Education studies minor Mary Cott ’21 is honing her passions for both dance and education by interning with the instructional wings of two New York City-based dance companies.
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Haverford is committed to making important texts accessible to all, and recently made “Studies in Mystical Religion” by famed Quaker educator and philosopher Rufus M. Jones available to the HathiTrust, a digital library offering millions of titles.
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The political science major was motivated to pursue a MENAR Fellowship teaching in Tunisia following a CPGC summer-internship abroad in Morocco.
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The political science and Spanish double major built her thesis upon two summers’ worth of experience studying Medicaid policy and reform with the Georgetown Center for Children and Families.
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The psychology major has a summer internship at Riverside Early Intervention, a center for children with developmental delays and neurological disorders.
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The associate professor of linguistics will use these funds to continue her ongoing work preserving the endangered inidigenous Zapotec language.
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The French and Francophone studies major’s thesis took on a unique form, born out of a continued interest in theater and performance and using resources from across the Tri-College Consortium.
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The chemistry major’s thesis offers valuable insights into the field of biochemistry, but also the act of research itself.
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The psychologist, researcher, professor, and author discusses her most recent book Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus.
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The religion major discusses how her interdisciplinary studies in the peace, justice, and human rights concentration have prepared her for the challenges of a career in law.
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The computer science major explored the development of different forms of machine learning in his thesis.
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History of art major and recipient of multiple Hurford Center-sponsored internships Emily Dombrovskya ’19 is spending the summer working behind the scenes as the Hurford Center summer assistant.
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The multi-talented physics major will be teaching and coaching while pursuing a graduate degree in education in the hopes of working with English language learners and immigrant students in America.
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Thanks to its flexible Create Spaces, and resources and support, the new Visual Culture, Arts, and Media building has made possible a surge in faculty-inspired, curriculum-related, and student-initiated creative projects on campus.
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