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.

Chemistry Professor Lou Charkoudian '03 Publishes Groundbreaking Study

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Lou Charkoudian '03, working with colleagues at Stanford and Berkeley, has published a study in the journal Science that could help expand the already important role of fluorine in medicinal chemistry.
Three Haverford Scientists Receive NSF Funding for Collaborative Project

With the help of a $299,998 NSF grant, chemists Joshua Schrier and Alexander Norquist, and computer scientist Sorelle Friedler, will create a database to collect and analyze the results of experimental efforts focused on a class of materials with promising industrial applications.
Nicholson Baker '79 on The Colbert Report

The author gives a hilarious interview to Stephen Colbert about his latest book, Traveling Sprinkler.
Katie Monroe '12 in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Monroe discusses her effort, as part of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, to get more women riding bikes in the city, which is an outgrowth of work she did as part of her senior thesis at Haverford.
Carol Solomon Featured In Morocan Newspaper Al Ittihad

Moroccan newspaper Al Ittihad published an interview with Carol Solomon about a talk she gave on artist Lalla Essaydi at a conference in Asilah, Morocco. Solomon, a visiting associate professor of art history who is currently teaching the course“Contemporary Art of the Arab World,” also talked about the research she did as a Fulbright fellow in Morocco last year on contemporary art of the Maghreb.
Nicholson Baker '79 in L.A. Times Books Section

The author discusses his latest novel, Traveling Sprinkler, a sequel to 2010's The Anthologist.
Iruka Okeke Awarded $536,235 National Science Foundation Grant

This is the second time the NSF has renewed its support of the associate professor of biology's research on the proteins that allow bacteria to colonize multicellular organisms.
Mellon Creative Residency Q&A: Laura Swanson

The artist, who was part of last year's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery exhibit What Can A Body Do?, will explore the behavior of looking at difference in her residency, which runs Sept. 30 through Oct. 4.
Summer 2013 Faculty Update

Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, and publications.
Rob Deutschman '79 in the Los Angeles Times

The L.A.-based charity that the investment banker co-founded in 1989, the Water Buffalo Club, is profiled for its work enriching the lives of thousands of disabled, neglected, and underprivileged children.
3 Questions for Vicky Funari

The award-winning filmmaker talks about the challenges of teaching documentary production.
Jordan Salcito '02 Named One of the Best New Sommeliers of 2013

The wine director of Momofuku in New York City is one of only eight people chosen for the list in Wine & Spirits magazine by her peers.
Ming-Fui Chai '15 Presents at the World Congress of Philosophy

Chai, who will spend his junior year abroad at Oxford University, presented a paper on John Locke's doctrine of personal identity, and got to meet some of the top philosophers in the world.
Jenny Maryasis '04: "One of The Top 100 People in Hollywood You Need to Know"

The agent, who reps Girls' Lena Dunham among others, was named to Fade In's Top 100 list, and was also recently on Glamour's "Top 35 Under 35 In Hollywood" list and among Variety's <a href="http://variety.com/2013/film/news/the-young-and-the-buzzworthy-superagen... of Tomorrow</a>.
Faculty Profile: Physicist Peter Love

Associate Professor of Physics Peter Love not only trains future scientists in the intricacies of quantum mechanics, he helps non-science majors gain a concept of the field as well.