Haverford Headlines

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

Building Futures

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

Education as Liberation

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

Students

Changing Stigmatized Views of Menstruation in Nepal

For the past four years, Kripa Khatiwada '26 has been working with an eco-friendly feminine hygiene products company and supporting the women of her home country.

Community Embraces the 1,833-Minute Challenge

Haverford students, alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and friends turned out in large numbers to meet the Challenge last month.
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Emily Bock '11 Named Law Student of The Year

The soon-to-graduate Temple Law student, one of only 25 people nationwide to receive this honor, was recognized by National Jurist magazine for her commitment to serving low-income people in need of legal services.
Ethical Food With ETHOS

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Campus, Students

The student group’s name is an acronym for “ethical, transparent, homegrown, organic, and sustainable,” which is how they would like the food they consume here on campus to be produced.
Ecology, Place, And Poetics

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Campus

As part of her Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities-organized Tuttle Creative Residency on campus, poet Joan Naviyuk Kane gave a poetry reading and visited classes.
Do It In The Dark Encourages Energy Reduction

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Students, Campus

This year the residents of Gummere led the winners by reducing their consumption by 25.1 percent, and campus-wide the use of 4265 pounds of carbon were averted over the course of the competition.
COOKING THE COLLECTION: Rice Pudding

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Campus

Preparing historical recipes from Quaker and Special Collections’ cookbooks from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
#Haverhome

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Students

Jenna Medeiros ’18 is the winner of our Instagram contest for creatively decorated campus homes, and seniors Grace Mangigian and Sergio Fernandez are the runners up.
Vincent Warren ’86 Talks BlackLivesMatter

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Alumni

The executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights returned to campus to speak about his work and advocate for broad, visionary activism.
HC Board: Cosby Degree Rescinded

A report on the Board of Managers meeting held February 5–6, 2016.
Good Food at Plenary

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Students

Following a CPGC-sponsored trip to the Real Food Challenge Summit, members of Haverford’s ETHOS food-justice group brought a resolution to Plenary that aims to expand ethical, local, and ecologically sound food on campus.
Benjamin Williams '96 Wins U.S. Government's Highest Honor For Young Researchers

The UCLA associate professor of electrical engineering is one of only 105 people this year selected for a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Haverford is a Top Producer of U.S. Fulbright Students and Scholars

Five Fords from the Class of 2015 and two faculty members were selected for the 2015-2016 cohort of Fulbright recipients.
COOKING THE COLLECTION: English Cake

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Campus

Preparing historical recipes from Quaker and Special Collections’ cookbooks from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
COOL CLASSES: “Race, Poverty, and the U.S. Welfare State”

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Faculty

A political science course that introduces students to policies promoting the economic and social wellbeing of U.S. citizens.