Haverford Headlines

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.

Summer Centered: Diana Schoder '17 Works on Conservation Efforts in the Northeast

The economics major and environmental studies minor is a CPGC-sponsored intern at the Open Space Institute in New York City.
Summer Centered: Sarah Moses '16 Makes a Movie About Public Art

Thanks to funding from HCAH, Sarah Moses '16 is exploring her newfound passion for documentary filmmaking for the second summer in a row.
A Photographic Education

Vita Litvak â€˜02 draws on her experience as a photography student here, as well as her own artistic career, in the classes she teaches now at Haverford.
Emma Eisenberg '09 Writes For Salon

Using a recent episode of popular Netflix prison drama <em>Orange is the New Black</em>, she explores the issue of rural sexual assault.
Summer-Centered: David Reilley's '16 Experiences Cross-Cultural Chemistry Research

The chemistry major is interning in the lab of Professor William Lubell at the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada.
Summer Centered: Sunny Zheng '16 Teaches Art to Child Sex Trafficking Survivors

The history major and fine arts minor is in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, interning with Hope For Justice.
Anya Krugavoy Silver '90 Wins Georgia Author Of The Year Award

The Mercer University Professor of English was honored in the poetry category for her book, <em>I Watched You Disappear: Poems</em>.
Ethan J. Kytle '95 In The Atlantic

The associate professor of history at California State University, Fresno writes about Confederate flags and monuments in the aftermath of the shootings in Charleston, S.C.
Summer Centered: Zach Alden '17 Has A Positive Experience With Negatives

This summer, through the Hurford Center's Student Research Assistantship program, Zach Alden '17, a psychology major, is organizing an archive of hundreds of black-and-white and color negatives with Professor of Fine Arts William Williams.
Summer Centered: Cora Hersh '16 Seeing the Light in Dark Matter

Cora Hersh '16 is working for Assistant Professor of Physics Kerstin Perez using data from an x-ray satellite telescope called NuSTAR.
Melvin Santer (1926—2015)

Professor Emeritus of Biology Melvin Santer passed away Thursday, June 25. Services will be held Sunday, June 28.
Lee Yearley '62 Wins Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award at Stanford

The Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professor of Oriental Philosophies, Religions and Ethics was honored for his distinctive contribution to undergraduate education at the university.
Haverford Microfinance Consulting Backs First Borrower

The student-run club has endorsed the owner of West Philly jewelry boutique Miss Mahogony via Kiva-Zip.
Dylan Kahn '16 Wins Beinecke Scholarship

The $34,000 scholarship will help fund the history of art major's eventual graduate studies.
Haverford College Names New Chief Information Officer

Megan Fitch, currently CIO of Beloit College in Wisconsin, will join the College's administration this fall.