Haverford Headlines

Students work on their finals while seated at tables forming a large rectangle.

Cram Artists

With Noon to Noon, seniors Emmett Huiskamp and Ellie Baron turn finals week into a performance art piece.

Philadelphia Community College's main building is pictured in a landscape photo.

New Bi-Co Program Introduces Community College Students to a Liberal Arts Education

The weeklong immersion program, open to any current community college student, will welcome students to Haverford and Bryn Mawr campuses in June.

Faculty

Office Hour: Jonathan Wilson

The professor of environmental studies gives us a tour of his office.

Grant Awarded to Digitize Records from Quaker-operated Indian Boarding Schools

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The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) has been awarded a grant of more than $100,000 from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission to digitize 20,000 records related to Quaker-operated Indian boarding schools, in partnership with Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Quaker & Special Collections here at Haverford.
Joseph Russo 1937-2023

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Joseph Russo, who taught classics at Haverford for more than 30 years, died August 16 at his home in upstate New York of complications from a motor neuron disease. He was 86.
Where They’re Headed: Jared Heller ’23

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Alumni

The history major has set his sights on a career as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, and beyond.
Where They’re Headed: Sharon Williams ’23

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Alumni

The psychology major at Bryn Mawr and visual studies minor at Haverford begins her post-grad career with Vanguard Group as a Portfolio Implementation Associate.
National Science Foundation Grant Goes to Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Rebecca Everett

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Faculty

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Rebecca Everett has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further her research on the effects of food quality on the maturation stages of water fleas (Daphnia Pulex), with a larger goal of better understanding the degree human activities are changing the environment and nutrient cycles.
Haverford Welcomes Four New Faculty Members

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Faculty

This year, new professors join the Departments of Economics, English, and Music, as well as the African and Africana Studies Program.
Summer Centered: Michaela Richter ’25 Researches Professors’ Career Paths With an Eye on Equity

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Summer Centered, Students, Campus, Summer, Centers

During a summer internship sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Richter helped track hiring practices in academia and how they relate to careers in linguistics.
What They Learned: Caroline Gihlstorf ’23

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Alumni

In her linguistics thesis, Gihlstorf’s topic was inspired by a class she took her junior year.
Summer Centered: Bukky Olugbeko ’25 Is Advocating to End Mass Incarceration

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Summer Centered, Students, Campus, Centers

As a summer intern working with the Abolitionist Law Center’s probation and parole campaign, she has witnessed up close the injustice of the criminal legal system.
Where They’re Headed: Sarina Smith ‘23

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Alumni, Science

The biology major and health studies minor now works as a lab technician in Dr. Elizabeth Bhoj’s lab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Where They’re Headed: Anubhav Sharma ‘23

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Alumni

The double major in computer science and math currently serves as an Associate Software Engineer at Morningstar Inc., a financial-services company based in Chicago.
What They Learned: Natasha Bansal ’23

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Alumni

For her thesis, Bansal researched the impact of immigrant-led grassroots.
Summer Centered: Natalie Goeler-Slough ’24 Is Helping to Preserve Coral Reefs

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Students, Campus, Centers

A summer internship at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology has her working on a variety of projects, including research on materials that could enhance the health of coral reefs.
Where They’re Headed: Celia Page ‘23

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Alumni

The economics major now works as a markets analyst at JPMorgan Chase.
What They Learned: Samuel Tan ’23

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Alumni

In his thesis, the double major in physics and computer science focuses on quantum error correction.