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.

Professor Erin Schoneveld wears a black shirt in a portrait taken in her office on Haverford's campus.

Athletics Faculty

Professor Erin Schoneveld Named Division III FARA Newcomer of the Year

Schoneveld, a two-time national championship rower, is the College's Faculty Athletics Representative.

Faculty

COOL CLASSES: “Lithography – Materials and Techniques”

In Hee Sook Kim’s class, students explore the foundation of offset printing, the standard before the dawn of digital printing.

Summer Centered: A Ford in the Senate

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Josh Fried '18 spent his summer in Washington, D.C., as a legislative intern for Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey.
Summer Centered: Velay Fellowship Supports Women in Science

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This summer, 10 Haverford students received support from a new grant to conduct on- and off-campus research.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Tamar Hoffman ’16

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The political science major researched how bipartisan consensus on criminal justice reform changed from the 1994 Crime Bill to the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act.
Summer Centered: Jahzara Heredia And Alison Love Help The HaverFarm Thrive

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The recent graduate and rising junior spent the summer tending to crops, harvesting produce, planning seeding schedules, and performing administrative duties for the campus farm.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Casey Falk ’16

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The computer science major studied how machine learning models work by using a novel approach to determine which features of a data set are the most useful to the model.
Summer Centered: Ben Soloway ‘18 Crosses The Atlantic For Solar Research

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The physics major joined the Imperial College London’s experimental solid state physics lab this summer, working to advance solar-cell efficiency.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Oluwatobi Alliyu ’16

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The anthropology major, who minored in health studies and earned a concentration in Africana studies, researched Nigeria’s healthcare system and HIV programs for her senior thesis.
Summer Centered: Ellen Schoder ‘19 Writes for Philadelphia Public School Notebook

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The prospective history major is brushing up on her journalistic skills on her Center for Peace and Global Citizenship-funded internship this summer.
Summer Centered: Yancheng Dai ’18 Helps Jump Start Careers At A Startup

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The math major spent his summer in the nation’s capital working for GiftedHIRE.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Alana Engelbrecht and Sarah Waldis

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The biology majors collaborated on related senior thesis projects on the role of fruit fly genes in mosquito embryo development.
Summer Centered: Robert Carpenter ‘18 Tackles Foreign Affairs

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The history major is in New York analyzing the latest global events alongside experts on U.S. foreign policy and economics for the Council on Foreign Relations’ influential bimonthly publication.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Yanxi Li ’16

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The economics major studied how Foreign Direct Investment inflows and privatization of enterprises in China affect the country’s innovation across industry sectors.
Summer Centered: Nava Kidon '18 Grows Food in the City

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Inspired by her on-campus work on the Haverfarm and with ETHOS, the political science major is spending her summer interning at City Grown Seattle, an urban farm.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Kelsey Owyang ’16

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The sociology major and Chinese minor used her thesis on Asian American educational experiences to explore the intersection of her interests.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Geoffrey Martin-Noble ’16

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The computer science and chemistry double major continued work begun in the Dark Reactions Project, detailed in a recent cover story in Nature, for an interdisciplinary thesis.