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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.

Videos: Haverford College and COVID-19

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Campus, Alumni, Faculty

A collection of video messages from—and conversations with—Haverford College President Wendy Raymond and faculty during this semester of remote learning and social distancing, as well as conversations with alumni fighting the disease on the front lines.
Winter 2020 Faculty Update

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Faculty

Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.
COOL CLASSES: “Childhood and Children’s Literature”

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Faculty

This writing seminar focuses on how British and American culture has defined the child since the 18th century, tracing the ever-evolving definitions of childhood through books, games, and toys of different periods.
COOL CLASSES: “First Language Acquisition”

This linguistics seminar explores how humans acquire their native languages.
Coronavirus and Haverford

Operational and policy changes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to be posted to our hub on an ongoing basis.
The Power of the Page

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Campus, Faculty, Students

The pre-spring break iteration of the Office of Academic Resources’ Reading Rainbow book-advocacy series featured students, faculty, and staff recommending books that helped them “overcome a sense of powerlessness.”
Kitchen Stadium Comes to the DC

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Students

Fords Against Boredom held its annual DC Iron Chef contest with a sustainability theme this year.
Industry Expert Leads “Game Jam” for Fords

James Seetal, who has worked on popular titles like Star Wars: The Old Republic and The Elder Scrolls: Legends, led a Haverford Innovations Program-sponsored workshop that culminated in student prototypes of tabletop games.
COOL CLASSES: “Asian American Psychology”

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Faculty

This seminar course addresses major theories and findings in Asian American psychology, with a focus on immigration and acculturation, ethnic identity, stereotyping and discrimination, families and development, and mental health.
COOL CLASSES: “Chemical Dynamics”

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Faculty

This chemistry course introduces students to the rules of thermodynamics and then uses them to explain and predict things at many levels, from systems as small as atoms and molecules to the entire planet.
COOL CLASSES: “Astronomical Ideas”

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Faculty, Science

This astronomy course provides an introduction to both modern and ancient astronomy, and provides a framework to discuss the nature of science and astronomy.
“The Local Story is the Larger Story” and the Bicentennial in Philadelphia

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Arts, Centers, Students

A new exhibit in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery explores the summer of 1976 in Philadelphia through a documentary created by the 2019 Summer Doculab Fellows.
New Exhibit Curated By Courtney Lynne Carter ’17 Takes a Long, Hard Look at Material Culture

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Arts, Campus, Centers

WE’RE SORRY THIS ITEM IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE, up through March 6 in VCAM, finds comedic value in a serious subject.
Updates for Alumni & Parents

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Alumni, Parents

Save the dates for upcoming events on campus and around the world.
COOL CLASSES: “After the Sunset: Lessons in Transition to Peace: The South African Example”

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Campus, Faculty

This anthropology course, co-taught by this semester’s Friend in Residence, engages with issues, theories, and methodologies of nonviolent and violent struggles, peace negotiations, transitional justice, post-conflict reconstruction, and peacebuilding by looking at South Africa as a case study.