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Dali Pomfret is pictured on a baseball field. He leans against a chainlink fence while an out of focus scoreboard sits in the background.

Major League Mindset

Dali Pomfret '25 started out wanting to play professional baseball. After an eye-opening internship, he’s now got his mind set on an even loftier goal.

Scott Peltzer poses for a portrait in the shop at Brooklyn Woods. He is surrounded by numerous woodworking tools.

Alumni Haverford magazine

Building Futures

Through Brooklyn Woods, Scott Peltzer ’82 teaches job hunters a lost art and self-sustaining skills for life.

Faculty Students

Education as Liberation

Philadelphia’s Freedom Side School imagines future intersections between education and anti-carceral movements with a Haverford first-year writing seminar.

Advancing the Fight for Freedom Through Art

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Campus, Centers

Akeil Robertson leveraged his Hurford Center and VCAM residency to positively impact the lives of incarcerated people. His exhibition “Project Hasan” is on view in VCAM’s Create Space through Friday, Oct. 6.
New Student-Developed App to Sustain High Fashion at Haverford

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Students

Perennial, created through this summer’s Innovation Incubator, seeks to reduce the fashion industry’s disproportionate environmental impact.
COOL CLASSES: “Matters of Taste: France and its Culinary Culture”

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Faculty

In this course, students explore the rich culinary history of France and how it intersects with gender, identity, class, and politics.
Fashion and Advocacy Merge at Inaugural THRIVE Thursday

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Campus

Fashion designer, educator, and nonprofit leader Nasheli Juliana Ortiz-González joined Haverford last week to kick off the series of lunch and learn events.
Where They’re Headed: Eva White ’23

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Alumni

The physics major and environmental studies and global Asian studies double minor wrapped up an internship with Pacific Northwest National Lab and is now settling into a fellowship position with Launch Alaska.
Where They’re Headed: Justin Adler ’23

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Alumni

The neuroscience major and health studies minor started his full-time job as a cancer researcher at Penn Medicine just two days after graduation. Adler awaits his upcoming matriculation to the University of Rochester School of Medicine.
Where They’re Headed: Meg Bowen ’23

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Alumni

The biology and music double major begins her post-grad career as a Medical Career Design Fellow in the orthopaedic department at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Tom Donnelly, Haverford’s Legendary Track and Cross Country Coach, to Retire

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News

Donnelly’s career at Haverford spans an unprecedented 49 seasons and includes 77 Middle Atlantic and Centennial Conference championships and a 2010 NCAA Division III championship.
NASA Invites Haverford Physicist Andrea Lommen and Team to Investigate Novel Space Navigation Program

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Faculty

Lommen, a professor of physics and astronomy, will spend the next six months in an initial concept development project that will incorporate work by Haverford seniors.
Make a Seat

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Arts, Students

VCAM’S Design + Make Summer Fellowship challenged participants to get hands-on and craft four very different chairs.
Where They’re Headed: Filip Kesicki ’23

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Alumni

The economics major and Spanish minor joined Bain & Company as a management consultant this fall.
Where They’re Headed: Ethan Ezray ‘23

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Alumni

The sociology major and child and family studies minor is studying to become a nurse practitioner at Columbia University.
Summer Centered: Jack Lieberman ’26 Learns the Art of a Healthy Harvest

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Summer Centered, Students, Campus, Centers

Jack Lieberman '26 learned plenty about vegetables—and himself—during a summer internship at Farmer Jawn, an urban farming operation in Elkins Park, Pa.
Classics Professor Receives Digital Humanities Advancement Grant

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Faculty

Professor of Classics Bret Mulligan has received a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment For the Humanities (NEH). The grant will fund his continuing work on web applications designed to help educators attain greater awareness of the match between reader knowledge and textual difficulty when assigning Latin and ancient Greek texts.
Summer Centered: Teddy Carlin '24 Interns at a Women's Health Clinic

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Summer Centered, Center for Career and Professional Advising, summer internship

During his summer internship at a women's health clinic, Teddy Carlin '24 witnessed what the overturning of Roe v. Wade has wrought for women and for health care providers.