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.

Science and the Gender Gap

Professor of Economics Anne Preston presents her research on why men and women leave scientific careers at a Columbia University Business School symposium.
Fords Included Among Scientists Working on Large Hadron Collider

Brig Williams '66 and Stephon Alexander '93 are two of the many researchers contributing to this extensive physics project.
Artist in Residence Pato Hebert Gives Talk

The Los Angeles artist surveyed his work for a packed crowd in Sharpless Auditorium.
Daniel Smiley '30 Featured in New York Times

For years, Smiley kept detailed and accurate records of natural life in and around New York's Mohonk House.
John Thompson '67 Performs in China

John Thompson '67 traveled to Beijing, China, in May for a series of performances of his program of“Music from the Time of Marco Polo.” Thompson, who toured China with the Estonian early music group FA Schola, is known for his historically informed performances of early Chinese music for the <em>guqin</em>(prounounced goo chin) silk-string zither.
New Class Focuses on Otherworldly Forms of Art

"The Spirit and the Psyche: Spiritualism, Symbolism, and Surrealism," taught by Mellon Postdoc Fellow Rachel Oberter, introduces students to the art of automatic drawing.
Haverford Alum Rises at Disney

Andrew Millstein '84 named general manager for Walt Disney Animation Studios.
More From David Wessel '75 on the Financial Turmoil

Is Uncle Sam now in the insurance business? The Wall Street Journal editor appeared on NPR Wednesday to discuss the government's bailout of insurance giant AIG.
Translating the Unprintable

With the help of a grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Professor of Classics Deborah Roberts is exploring what's been seen as right -- and proper (or not) -– in translation
Radio Days: Danielle Jacobs '02 Interns at NPR

Jacobs, an AAAS Media Fellow, spent the summer working for NPR affiliate KUNC in Colorado.
The Road to the White House: What the polls can't tell us

Jon Delano '71 and David Burstein '11 chat about the power of new voters to shift the election and the difficulty of gauging the mood of the electorate.
First-Year Students Get Crash Course in Diversity Issues at Tri-Co Summer Institute

Incoming freshmen spent a week exploring and discussing race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and many other "isms."
American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh

This exhibition is the first complete survey of the artist's career ever assembled and will run at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery from October 3 to December 14, 2008.
New Book From Professor of Biology Philip Meneely

Oxford University Press will publish his textbook Advanced Genetic Analysis, which grew out of an innovative course of the same name Meneely has taught at Haverford for more than a decade.
Alumni Band Puts a Modern Spin on a Classic Horror Film

The Philadelphia band Golden Ball, which includes Fords Sarah Jacoby '06 and Timothy Tebordo '03, wrote and performed a new score for the 1920 film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at the Philadelphia Film Festival.