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: Noah Tunis ’25 Works Toward Justice in the Legal System

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Supported by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Tunis is spending his summer assisting in the Baltimore Office of the Public Defender.
Summer Centered: Theo Schefer '24 Finds a Gateway to History in Folk Music

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During an internship with the American Song Archives, Schefer is creating displays and public programming aimed at exposing a wider audience to folk music's cultural history.
National Science Foundation Award Goes to Assistant Professor of Biology Foen Peng

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Assistant Professor of Biology Foen Peng has won an award from the National Science Foundation for his project "Genomic and molecular bases of pollination syndrome evolution in monkeyflowers."
What They Learned: Lina Marsella ’23

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Alumni

For her thesis, the double major combined her interests in linguistics and Italian studies to conduct her research.
What They Learned: Magnolia Clayton ’23

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Alumni

The independent major in Education Studies explored how education has functioned as promise, oppression, hope, and liberation in her own life, which invoked many ideas from scholars who have influenced how she sees education as a tool for liberating practice.
Summer Centered: Jocelyn Gao '26 Explores Diabetes and Clinical Research

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As an intern at a diabetes center affiliated with Harvard University, Gao is part of a research study seeking to understand why cardiovascular and kidney issues often occur together in people with Type 1 diabetes.
What They Learned: Christina McBride ’23

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McBride’s research seeks to understand the ways in which microbes produce a particular class of natural products.
Summer Centered: Eshal Asim '26 Is Studying Microscopic Life Forms

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As an intern in Assistant Professor of Biology Kristen Whalen's lab, Asim is studying the relationship between a marine phytoplankton and a marine bacterium when they are cultured together.
What They Learned: Nick Lasinsky ’23

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For his thesis, the double major in history and English examined the effect of built space upon a mining community.
Summer Centered: Khady Ndiaye '26 Explores the Properties of Ionic Liquids as a Chemistry Lab Intern

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In an internship funded by the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, Ndiaye is working in the lab of Assistant Professor of Chemistry Clyde Daly.
Summer Centered: Noah Kogut Levin '26 Works With Environmental Organizations in Brazil

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Over the course of two internships in Rio de Janeiro sponsored by the Center for Career and Professional Advising, Levin is learning about protecting the environment from both a hands-on and a policymaking perspective.
What They Learned: Anubhav Sharma ’23

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Alumni

The math and computer science double major explored the applications of finite fields in cryptography.
With 1,000 Trees Planted, Haverford College Arboretum Achieves 10-Year Plan in 5

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Haverford Arboretum

When Sally Anderson interviewed for the job of Haverford College Arboretum Plant Curator in the winter of 2017, Director Claudia Kent didn’t beat around the bush—or more appropriately, the trees—about what the job would entail.

"We have to plant 1,000 trees in 10 years," Kent told her.
What They Learned: Eva White ’23

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The physics major and environmental studies minor used her thesis research to explore the sustainability efforts by Haverford College to design a microgrid.
Summer Centered: Mimi Tran ’23 Supports Fishadelphia

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With support from the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Tran is working with seafood CSA Fishadelphia’s social media and content team.