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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.

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.

Fall Fun with Friends

On a beautiful fall weekend, more than 700 friends and family members flocked to Haverford.

Where They’re Headed: Laurel Benjamin ’21

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Alumni

The psychology and Spanish double major is working as a project coordinator at Loma Linda University studying mindfulness-based stress reduction for parents of children with developmental delays.
COOL CLASSES: “Topics in Astrophysics: Extragalatic Data Science”

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Faculty, Science

Students learn some of the current understanding of how galaxies in our Universe form and evolve over time, as well as the data science techniques commonly used by extragalactic researchers in their work.
Lexie Iglesia ‘21 Behind the Makeup

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Alumni, Arts, Centers, Students

The recent alum curated “What I’ve Become,” a clown-themed exhibition in VCAM that extends from their work as a 2021 Summer Doculab fellow.
CLUB LIFE: Jamming With the Bi-Co Jazz Band

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Arts, Campus, Students

This student-run club gives Fords and Mawrters an opportunity to play jazz together.
COOL CLASSES: “Sensing Beyond the Human”

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Faculty, Students

This anthropology course explores human attempts to extend sensory capacities through robots, sensors, nonhuman animals, and plants, considering how colonialism, race, disability, gender, and surveillance shape the desire to sense beyond the human.
Johnny Perez is Haverford’s Fall 2021 Friend in Residence

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Campus

The organizer and activist visited Haverford to discuss his work in prison abolition and criminal justice reform.
Where They’re Headed: Chace Pulley ’21

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Alumni

The political science major is working as a Weil Legal Innovator fellow at Tahirih Justice Center before beginning law school at Columbia in 2023.
COOL CLASSES: “Indigenous Women: Gender, Ethnicity, and Feminism in Latin America”

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Faculty, Students

This history course explores Indigenous women’s experiences in the history of Latin America including the dynamics of women’s social movements in the region, whose agendas often conflict with established gendered traditions.
Welcoming Family and Friends Back to Campus

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Campus, Students

Following last year’s virtual celebration, this year’s in-person return was the biggest ever Family and Friends Weekend.
Meet Henry Morales

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Centers

The new Hurford Center post-baccalaureate fellow tells Jalen Martin ‘23 about his art, his journey to Haverford, and his goals in his new position.
In-Person Plenary Returns with Fall 2021 Session

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Campus, Students

The student body convened to vote on policy at the first in-person plenary event since the pandemic began.
Where They’re Headed: Brett Mozarsky ’21

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Alumni, Science

The chemistry major is testing the efficacy and safety of drugs in clinical cancer trials at the National Cancer Institute.
Hear Something New with VCAM’s Artists in Residence

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Arts, Campus, Centers, Students

Sound Museum Collective joined the Haverford community in October to assist students in exploring audio engineering.
COOL CLASSES: “Law and Anthropology: The War on Drugs”

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Faculty, Students

This course explores anthropological approaches to the law and legal regimes, with special emphasis on the relationship between law, power and politics, social hierarchy, and the institutionalization of inequality in the United States in the context of the War on Drugs.
Roger L. Easton Jr. ’72 Presents Multispectral Imaging Technology at Haverford

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Alumni, Campus, Science

Leading members of the field of imaging science visited campus to demonstrate its potential applications in libraries and museums, including Haverford’s own collection.