Haverford Headlines

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.

Alumni Haverford magazine

Music for the Masses

A music education teacher and composer, Grace Coberly '21, writes music for people. "I like relating to other people through music," they say.

Lilly Lavner '07 Joins Student Activities Office

As coordinator of student activities and leadership, Lavner will work to enrich the co-curricular lives of students, including helping the more than 145 student-run clubs and organizations on campus plan events, coordinate trips, fund-raise, and organize conferences and symposia.
When Bad Behavior is a Sign of Something More

In his new book, Almost a Psychopath, forensic psychiatrist Ron Schouten '75 examines the range of behavioral and emotional issues that fall between "normal and fullblown pathology."
Carousel Connections Comes to Haverford

This summer Amy and Chris McCann (both '02) launched a live-in life-skills program for young adults with special needs on campus that was staffed by current students.
Susanna Wing On Voice of America

The associate professor of political science discusses the reappointment of Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra and his new deadline to form a unity government in Mali.
Haverford on the Radio

Former WHRC DJ Jennifer C. Waits '89 chronicles nine decades of campus broadcasting.
Steve Spaulding '05 in The New York Times

Staff counsel for watchdog group Common Cause, Spaulding weighs in on the ethical issues surrounding Representative John F. Tierney's family finances.
Battle of the Bulge

Marlene Schwartz '88 works on the front lines of the childhood obesity epidemic, advocating for changes that will help families make healthier choices.
Partner in Health

Kelsey Capron '12 volunteers at a maternity center in Jacmel, Haiti.
New Musical Direction

He's composed art songs, a Latin jazz-inspired suite, a work for a Taiko drum ensemble, and more. Now versatile L.A.-based composer David Arbury '95 is creating the score for the comedy web series Couch Surfers.
Promoting Children's Literature in Africa

During a summer in Ghana, Helen Farley '14 interned with an organization devoted to developing writers and illustrators of books for kids.
Music Man

Mario Cotto '98, a DJ at Los Angeles' free-form community station KCRW, has the dream job he didn't even know he wanted.
New Book From David Wessel '75

NPR's "Morning Edition" interviews the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> columnist about his just-published book <em>Red Ink,</em> which explores the bitter politics surrounding the federal budget.
Haverford Researchers Create Carbon Dioxide-Separating Polymer

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Joshua Schrier used supercomputers at the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center to help come up with a material that, in theory, could help efficiently separate carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions.
Telling Stories, Publishing Lives

This summer Annie Reading '13 is working with Voice of Witness, a nonprofit that publishes the oral histories of people living in ongoing human rights crises.
A Summer in Indonesia

This summer, Jacob Lowy is in Indonesia, researching and experiencing life there with other Bi-Co Students. His internship involves learning the local language, participating in field research and working at an Indonesian political organization.