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Standing against a white background, Eric Chen wears a fencing uniform with no helmet. He holds his epee in his right hand and points it at the camera.

Eric Chen '27 Headed to NCAA Fencing Championships

Chen, a sophomore, steps onto the national fencing stage at Penn State University later this month.

Haverford Announces 2025 Honorary Degree Recipients

Legendary track and field coach Tom Donnelly and alternative death care pioneer Katrina Spade ’99 will receive honorary degrees at Commencement.

Matthew McKeever is pictured in a portrait taken on Haverford's campus. He smiles while wearing a grey coat and light blue collared shirt.

Faculty

Professor’s New Book Explores the Economics of Single Motherhood

Thanks for Nothing by Professor and Chair of Sociology Matthew McKeever draws on 40 years of data to understand why the financial outlook for single mothers remains stagnant.

Digitally Preserving an Indigenous Mexican Language

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Faculty

The Ticha Project, started by Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Danielle Lillehaugen and her collaborators, is a new online explorer for a corpus of Colonial Zapotec texts.
Fords Create A Microfinance Map for Philadelphia

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Students, clubs, microfinance

This summer, three Haverford students created a map for the greater Philadelphia region that helps small business owners locate microfinance-related resources in the city.
Welcome, Class of 2019!

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Students

On Wednesday, August 26, we officially welcomed the newest members of the Haverford community to campus and kicked off Customs, the College’s first-year orientation program.
Anita Isaacs on Al Jazeera Panel on Guatemala

The political science professor was on the network's Inside Story, discussing corruption in Guatemala.
The Quartetto di Venezia Plays Curt Cacioppo's "Sorriso a Catania"

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Faculty

The Ruth Marshall Magill Professor of Music wrote the piece as a tribute to Professor of Fine Arts Ying Li.
Brendan Wattenberg '06 In Conversation On Another Africa

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Alumni

The curator of the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery's upcoming show, The Past is a Foreign Country, talks to the exhibit's photographer, François-Xavier Gbré, about his work.
Matt Joyce '03 Named One Of 15 Young Philadelphians Shaping Local Philanthropy

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Alumni

The executive director of GreenLight Fund is part of Billy Penn's list of influential local "givers."
Fay Strongin ’10 and Sarah Turkus ’10 in Rhode Island Monthly

The story profiles their Sidewalk Ends Farm in Providence, which is now in its fifth season.
Summer Centered: Courtney Lau '17 Heads For The Fringe

Courtney Lau '17 is interning with FringeArts, the organization behind the 18-day Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
Summer Centered: Katie Tsai '16 and Emily Winesett '16 Research Natural Antibiotic Creation

Thanks to funding from the Koshland Integrated Science Center, the rising seniors are getting a head start on their thesis research in the lab of Assistant Professor of Chemistry Lou Charkoudian '03 this summer.
Summer Centered: Tosin Alliyu '18 Investigates the Role of Ethics in Technology

Tosin Alliyu '18 is studying bias in computer-generated decisions in her research internship with Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sorelle Friedler.
Sorelle Friedler Studies Programming and Prejudice

The assistant professor of computer science was part of a team of researchers that discovered a way to see if algorithms can be biased like human beings, as well as a method for fixing them if they are.
Summer Centered: Dylan Kahn '16 Interns At The Philadelphia Museum of Art

This summer the history of art major is working in the museum's American Curatorial Department.
Michael Furey '17 Interns with Congressman Brendan F. Boyle

The political science major has been working for the Democratic congressman for Pennsylvania's 13th district all summer.
Summer Centered: Laura Eckstein '16 Plots Jewish Communities on the Mississippi

Laura Eckstein '16 is in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives mapping Jewish networks along the Mississippi River Delta region prior to the Civil War.