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.

Faculty

COOL CLASSES: “Design for All”

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

Students

Club Life: Haverford Outdoors Club

The Haverford Outdoors Club offers meaningful positive outdoors experience, no matter a student’s experience or financial circumstances.

Summer Centered: Christopher Bechen ’18 Archives Activist Media in Philly

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Students, Centers

At the Media Mobilizing Project, the double major in fine arts and growth and structure of cities will begin organizing video documentation of city activism for the creation of a public archive.
Summer Reading: Rachael Beyer

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Campus

The art registrar suggests three titles (two nonfiction, one fiction) about community and utopia.
Summer Centered: Reilly Milburn ’19 and Justin Otter ’19 Simulate Galaxies in the Sunshine State

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Students, Centers

At the University of Florida in Gainesville, the two rising juniors are using supercomputer models to learn about the evolution of the universe’s early galaxies.
Shu-wen Wang Earns Two Early Career Awards

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Faculty

In the span of just 12 months, the assistant professor of psychology has been honored by the Asian American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program.
Where They’re Headed: Rebecca Miller ’17

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Alumni

After changing her mind about becoming a biomedical engineer, the math major and statistics minor will use her love of numbers as a marketing data analyst at Crossix.
Summer Centered: Stephen Niesobecki ’18 Brings Sociology to Law

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Students, Centers

With his Summer Research Assistantship, the rising senior is bridging disciplines as he prepares to write his sociology thesis about unconscionability in contract law.
Where They’re Headed: Rachel Miller ’17

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Alumni

At the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the political science major will gain experience in fields of international security, foreign policy, and counterterrorism.
Summer Centered: Joseph Spir '20 Helps Link Tourists with Peruvian Indigenous Communities

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Students, Centers

The prospective anthropology major, Spanish minor, and Latin American, Iberian, and Latino studies concentrator will learn about Andean cultures by volunteering for a sustainable tourism program.
Where They’re Headed: Chris Hoogstraten ’17

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Alumni

After graduating summa cum laude with an English degree, Hoogstraten will teach his language of study to undergraduate students in Chiang Rai, Thailand.
Kristen Whalen Earns NSF Award

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Faculty

The assistant professor of biology was awarded $356,028 as part of a larger collaborative grant to fund her work exploring why certain "infochemicals" in the ocean cause phytoplankton death.
Summer Reading: Semyon Khokhlov

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Campus

The research and instruction librarian suggests three relatively new books—two from 2016 and one 2015 reissue of a book from the ’80s that had been long out of print—that grapple with desire, politics, and the modern condition.
Spring 2017 Faculty Updates

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Faculty

Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.
Haverford College’s Ethical Leadership Institute Expands in Its Second Year

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Students, Alumni

Following a successful 2016 pilot, the innovative summer program doubled its participants and created two parallel course tracks: one focused on medical ethics and another on business ethics.
Where They’re Headed: Vivian Sun ’17

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Alumni

The biology major, who minored in educational studies, is pursuing her dream of becoming a teacher at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education.
New Haverford Professor Launches Experiment on Rocket to International Space Station

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Faculty

Andrea Lommen, the latest addition to the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is part of a team whose x-ray telescope study is aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 mission.