Haverford Headlines

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.

What's New at The HaverFarm?

Growing interest from students in sustainable, local food has led to an on-campus, student-run farm, which supplies food to Dining Services and a weekly farm stand.
Summer Centered: Ty Joplin '16 Analyzes ISIS in Israel

With funding from the CPGC, he is spending his summer in Tel Aviv, Israel, doing research at the Moshe Dayan Center.
Gillian Miswardi '16 Wins Annabelle Dixon Prize at Cambridge

This is only the second time that the prize from Lucy Cavendish College has been given to a visiting student.
Kerstin Perez Part of NPR's #RaceOnTech

The assistant professor of physics was part of the <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/07/13/420838737/follo... media conversation</a> exploring diversity in tech and science.
Summer Centered: Tom Sternberg '17 Gets Theatrical at Pig Iron

This summer, Tom Sternberg '17 is researching the artistic contexts of plays, writing blog posts, and supporting the day-to-day operations of the theater by calculating ticket sales and digitizing archives.
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.