Haverford Headlines

Community Care and Resources in Response to Israel-Gaza

At a time of conflict and divide, the College is working to bring students, faculty, and staff together to support one another and engage these important issues through peaceful and constructive dialogue.

Students

Club Life: Haverford Outdoors Club

The Haverford Outdoors Club offers meaningful positive outdoors experience, no matter a student’s experience or financial circumstances.

Two students look at a clipboard as they register to vote in the GIAC. One is wearing a black Haverford t-shirt with the black squirrel on it.

News & Updates

The Run-Up Winds Down

As Election Day nears, Fords embrace their role as a critical voting bloc.

COOL CLASSES: “Sensing Beyond the Human”

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Faculty, Students

This anthropology course explores human attempts to extend sensory capacities through robots, sensors, nonhuman animals, and plants, considering how colonialism, race, disability, gender, and surveillance shape the desire to sense beyond the human.
Johnny Perez is Haverford’s Fall 2021 Friend in Residence

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Campus

The organizer and activist visited Haverford to discuss his work in prison abolition and criminal justice reform.
Where They’re Headed: Chace Pulley ’21

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Alumni

The political science major is working as a Weil Legal Innovator fellow at Tahirih Justice Center before beginning law school at Columbia in 2023.
COOL CLASSES: “Indigenous Women: Gender, Ethnicity, and Feminism in Latin America”

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Faculty, Students

This history course explores Indigenous women’s experiences in the history of Latin America including the dynamics of women’s social movements in the region, whose agendas often conflict with established gendered traditions.
Welcoming Family and Friends Back to Campus

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Campus, Students

Following last year’s virtual celebration, this year’s in-person return was the biggest ever Family and Friends Weekend.
Meet Henry Morales

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Centers

The new Hurford Center post-baccalaureate fellow tells Jalen Martin ‘23 about his art, his journey to Haverford, and his goals in his new position.
In-Person Plenary Returns with Fall 2021 Session

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Campus, Students

The student body convened to vote on policy at the first in-person plenary event since the pandemic began.
Where They’re Headed: Brett Mozarsky ’21

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Alumni, Science

The chemistry major is testing the efficacy and safety of drugs in clinical cancer trials at the National Cancer Institute.
Hear Something New with VCAM’s Artists in Residence

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Arts, Campus, Centers, Students

Sound Museum Collective joined the Haverford community in October to assist students in exploring audio engineering.
COOL CLASSES: “Law and Anthropology: The War on Drugs”

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Faculty, Students

This course explores anthropological approaches to the law and legal regimes, with special emphasis on the relationship between law, power and politics, social hierarchy, and the institutionalization of inequality in the United States in the context of the War on Drugs.
Roger L. Easton Jr. ’72 Presents Multispectral Imaging Technology at Haverford

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Alumni, Campus, Science

Leading members of the field of imaging science visited campus to demonstrate its potential applications in libraries and museums, including Haverford’s own collection.
Where They’re Headed: Eliza Koren ’21

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Alumni, Science

The psychology major is pursuing a Ph.D. in school psychology at Lehigh University.
COOL CLASSES: “Cancer Narratives”

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Faculty, Students

This health studies course explores the human experience of cancer patients and their families to provide a lens to critically examine the healthcare system and sociopolitical conditions of their societies.
Where They’re Headed: Matthew Danielson ’21

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Alumni, Science

The chemistry major is pursuing a master’s degree in neuroscience at King’s College London.
Plant Freezing Would Have Limited the Distribution of Forests 300 Million Years Ago

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Faculty

A new paper by a team that includes Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Jonathan Wilson provides a new perspective on a chapter in plant evolutionary history by focusing on the role of low temperatures in shaping terrestrial forests.