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.

Fall Fun with Friends

On a beautiful fall weekend, more than 700 friends and family members flocked to Haverford.

Alumni

Brandon Alston ’14 Shares Research on Police Countersurveillance and “Camera Cues”

The Haverford alum returned to campus to share his most recent research on Black protectionism and the camera as self-defense.

Six Resolutions Pass at Spring Plenary

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Campus, Students

The bi-annual gathering of the student body to discuss issues on campus was held on Sunday night in the GIAC’s Calvin Gooding Arena.
Love Shack, Baby

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Campus, Students

Fords Against Boredom’s annual Valentine’s Day-adjacent edible-house-decorating competition attracted lots of creative contestants.
Saving Vital Scientific Data

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Campus, Students

Over the weekend Magill Library hosted a DataRescue event that brought community members together to preserve federal climate research.
Celebrating Fordlanthropy

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Campus

On Thursday, Feb. 16, the entire Haverford community came together for a campus-wide Day of Giving, featuring the annual scholarship lunch, appearances by the Black Squirrel, a cappella performances, and more.
Haverford College Named Top Fulbright Producer

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Students, Alumni

Four Fords from the Class of 2016 earned 2016/2017 Fulbright Student Awards.
COOL CLASSES: “In the American Strain: Music In Writing (1855–1975)”

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Faculty

This English seminar, investigating music in American literature, explores how poetic music and music diverge and examines the ways in which music and poetry have fed and inspired each other.
COOL CLASSES: “How Stuff Works”

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Faculty, Students

This writing seminar explores several pervasive systems that operate by virtue of being invisible, while emphasizing writing as a means of inquiry, analysis, and persuasion.
Sophie McGlynn ’18 Helps Celebrate the American Friends Service Committee Centennial

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Arts, Campus, Students

The junior political science major curated a collaborative exhibition, now on view in Magill’s Sharpless Gallery, on the history (and future) of the peacemaking Quaker organization that was founded at Haverford College.
The Student Becomes The Teacher: Sarah Derbew ’09

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Alumni, Campus

The Yale Ph.d. student and Haverford Latin major returned to campus to give a lecture as part of the library’s long-running Young Academic Alumni Lecture Series.
Sharpless Hall Officially Reopens

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Campus, Faculty

President Kim Benston and faculty members expressed words of gratitude about the recent renovations to the home of biology and psychology at Friday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony.
From Philly to Mexico City: Looking at Immigration From Both Sides of the Border

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Students, Centers

This year's CPGC-sponsored Migration Field Study Trip to Mexico included, for the first time, a prelude spent learning from Philadelphia organizations that serve and support local immigrant populations.
COOL CLASSES: “Topics in Environmental Chemistry: Lead in our Environment”

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Faculty, Science

This chemistry course aims to understand the chemistry of lead, including as a public health effects of it as a toxin in the water, soil, and paint of our made environment.
Below the Surface, a New Era Begins for the Dining Center

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Campus, Students

Renovations to the building’s basement have breathed new life and light into a promising space.
Not Your Average Poet: Sparrow Flies To Haverford

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Campus, Centers

Sponsored by the Department of English and the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, the activist/poet brought his artistic and creative energy to campus, along with advice on how to breed subversion with poetry and humor.
COOL CLASSES: “Theory of Non-Cooperative Games”

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Faculty, Students

This course on Game Theory examines mathematical models of how rational actors engage in collaboration and conflict, and connects these topics to applications in business, economics, law, politics, and biology.