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.

Alumni

Brandon Alston ’14 Shares Research on Police Countersurveillance and “Camera Cues”

The Haverford alum returned to campus to share his most recent research on Black protectionism and the camera as self-defense.

Faculty

COOL CLASSES: “Design for All”

In Ronah Harris’ class, students are introduced to the creative problem-solving methodology of human-centered design.

Decorating for the Holiday Season

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Campus

The Arboretum welcomed members of the Haverford community to Haverford to learn how to build holiday decorations using plant material from across the campus.
Translating the Russian AIDS Crisis

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Students

George O'Hara '18, a double major in Russian and chemistry, combined his interests by joining an epidemiological research project that resulted in a paper in PLOS Medicine's recent special issue on HIV/AIDS.
COOL CLASSES: “Artists Under Policing Gaze of the State: Politics, History, and Performance”

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Faculty

This course, which is crosslisted in both comparative literature and peace, justice, and human rights, investigates what permanent surveillance meant and means historically and today for society at large and for individual artists living under its pressure.
Celebrating Professorial and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education

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Students, Campus

At the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, fellows and coordinators from local MMUF institutions visited Haverford for two days of discipline-spanning workshops, presentations, and discussions related to diversifying the academy.
Learning to Serve, Serving to Learn

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Students, Centers

Over fall break, the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship sent its latest contingent of volunteers to High Rocks, an education and leadership institute for rural girls in West Virginia.
COOL CLASSES: “Human Rights in Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, and in National and Global Contexts”

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Campus, Centers

This course considers human rights theory and civil society action as they relate to students’ recent Center for Peace and Global Citizenship-sponsored summer internship experiences to interrogate the relationship between social issues and policy structures.
The Rhythm of the Words and the Pleasure of the Sounds

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Faculty, Students

Award-winning poets Joan Larkin and Robert Hershon read a selection of their work last week at an event organized by Visiting Assistant Professor of English Thomas Devaney and sponsored by creative writing programs at Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities.
How To Make a Fork

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Campus, Students

In a workshop in the VCAM building’s new Maker Space, students learned 3D modeling software and digital fabrication equipment.
COOL CLASSES: “Health Economics”

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Faculty

This course explores the important issues of health and healthcare from an economic perspective, including the roles and perspectives of individuals, providers, insurers, and governments, and how their decisions are shaped by different economic, political, and ethical motivations.
Haverford’s Yiddish Cultural Festival Goes Punk

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Arts, Campus, Faculty

The two-decade-old tradition, which invites community members to enjoy film, music, and speakers encompassing all things Yiddish every semester, welcomed queer, Yiddish, anarchist band Koyt Far Dayn Fardakhtn, featuring bassist Rose Kaplan-Bomberg ’10, to campus.
Pushing the Edges of Human Rights Work

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Campus, Centers, Faculty

Haverford hosted scholars, activists, educators, and creators for a symposium on extending the guarantees of human rights policy more broadly.
Eating From the Ground Up

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Campus, Students

Ehaus’ third annual Haverfarm dinner celebrated final big harvest of the season.
COOL CLASSES: “Yoga: Art, Text, and Practice”

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Faculty

This course in the Department of Religion investigates the range of meanings attributed to the term “yoga” over 2,000 years and across multiple geographical and cultural communities.
Anne Preston Wins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award

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Faculty

The professor of economics has earned a year of support for her research into the current magnitude and character of occupational exit of scientists and engineers in the U.S.
What Fall Break? These Fords Spent Their Vacations Doing Research

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Students, Centers

Thanks to funding from the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, Liana Alves ’18 and Aaron Schankler ’18 used their week off from classes to gather data for their senior theses.