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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.

COOL CLASSES: “Global Change Biology”

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Faculty

This biology course for non-majors explores how human activities impact Earth’s climate and, in turn, all living things on the planet.
Impact Challenge Partners with Puentes de Salud

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Centers, Students

Sponsored by Haverford Innovations Program and Swarthmore’s Center for Innovation and Leadership, a daylong workshop led by Alexandra Wolkoff ’14 from Puentes de Salud gave participants direction on how to support Latinx immigrant communities in Philadelphia.
Spilling the Beans on the Microfinance and Impact Investing Initiative

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Students

The Fall 2018 iteration of the “Impact Investing” course chose to support Vega Coffee, a direct-trade venture whose products are now available in the Coop and new Library Cafe.
COOL CLASSES: “The ‘Rise’ of the Novel”

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Faculty

This English course introduces students to the early English novel, as well as to the tradition of scholarship that seeks to explain its origins.
CLUB LIFE: Iconic Dance Team Steps into the Spotlight

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Arts, Students

Founded in 2018, Haverford’s Step team isn’t afraid to be heard.
COOL CLASSES: “A Musical Millennium: From Convent to Concert Hall”

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Faculty

This music course examines musical change over a thousand-year span, uncovering how—and why—Western music evolved from a monastic ritual of plain, unaccompanied song into a secular entertainment for elite audiences in modern cities.
Haverford Welcomes Paula Palmer as Friend in Residence

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Campus

This semester the Quaker Affairs Office is welcoming Paula Palmer, an activist and a long-standing advocate for the rights of Indigenous peoples, to campus as this semester’s Friend in Residence.
CLUB LIFE: Horror Council’s Spooky Screenings

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Campus, Students

A new club on campus encourages Fords to face their fears among friends.
Arboretum Hosts A Fall Fling

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Campus

Members of the community celebrated the changing season at the Arboretum’s Fall Festival, which included a Nature Trail night hike lit by handmade jack-o’-lanterns.
COOL CLASSES: “Sex Under Capitalism: Intimate Relations Between Economy and Society”

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This sociology course engages in debates about families as economic units, women’s bodies as social factories, gay identity’s relationship to labor and consumption, the “pricing” of unpaid care, and sex work and trafficking.
Philosophy Department Unveils New Collection Spotlighting Minority Contributions to the Field

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Alumni, Campus, Students

The new Gladstone Lee Mohan Collection consists of dozens of philosophical texts by underrepresented authors and is named after an alum and two current students.
COOL CLASSES: “Body Media: Wearable Technology and Digital Bodies”

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Faculty

This visual studies course introduces students to critical design and creative practices that address technologies that are worn on the body, that digitize the body, and that extend the body.
Updates for Alumni & Parents

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Alumni

Get ready for fall happenings on campus and beyond Haverford.
Pew Center Grant Funds Project Exploring Connections Between Campus and Local and International Muslim Communities

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Arts, Campus, Centers

The award connects the College’s Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, artist collective Slavs and Tatars, and Philadelphia nonprofits Twelve Gates Arts and the Council on American Islamic Relations for two years of planned artistic collaborations inspired by a 14th-century allegorical Uighur text.
Amira Abujbara's "We Are Still Here"

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Haverford magazine, Alumni

The Class of 2017 graduate made a documentary that tells the story of the problems facing Native Alaskan communities.