Haverford Headlines

Students work on their finals while seated at tables forming a large rectangle.

Cram Artists

With Noon to Noon, seniors Emmett Huiskamp and Ellie Baron turn finals week into a performance art piece.

Philadelphia Community College's main building is pictured in a landscape photo.

New Bi-Co Program Introduces Community College Students to a Liberal Arts Education

The weeklong immersion program, open to any current community college student, will welcome students to Haverford and Bryn Mawr campuses in June.

Faculty

Office Hour: Jonathan Wilson

The professor of environmental studies gives us a tour of his office.

History Lesson: The Social and Technical Assistance Program

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Campus, magazine

With the outbreak of the Korean War, Haverford launched what would be its most recent foray into graduate education: the Social and Technical Assistance program, which ran from 1951 to 1956.
Customs Introduces 351 New Fords to Campus Life

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Campus, Students

After moving into their dorms, the Class of 2020 began their first-year experience with a five-day orientation program.
Summer Centered: Four Fords Jump Into The Pool Movie

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Students, Centers, Arts

The inaugural class of Tuttle Summer Arts Lab fellows spent this summer working on a film project with Visual Media Scholar Vicky Funari.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: David Reilley ’16

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Alumni, Science

For his thesis, the chemistry major worked on a computational problem of a lab in Montreal, where he had previously conducted a summer research internship.
Summer Centered: A Ford in the Senate

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Students

Josh Fried '18 spent his summer in Washington, D.C., as a legislative intern for Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey.
Summer Centered: Velay Fellowship Supports Women in Science

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Students, Centers, Science

This summer, 10 Haverford students received support from a new grant to conduct on- and off-campus research.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Tamar Hoffman ’16

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Alumni

The political science major researched how bipartisan consensus on criminal justice reform changed from the 1994 Crime Bill to the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act.
Summer Centered: Jahzara Heredia And Alison Love Help The HaverFarm Thrive

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The recent graduate and rising junior spent the summer tending to crops, harvesting produce, planning seeding schedules, and performing administrative duties for the campus farm.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Casey Falk ’16

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Alumni

The computer science major studied how machine learning models work by using a novel approach to determine which features of a data set are the most useful to the model.
Summer Centered: Ben Soloway ‘18 Crosses The Atlantic For Solar Research

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The physics major joined the Imperial College London’s experimental solid state physics lab this summer, working to advance solar-cell efficiency.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Oluwatobi Alliyu ’16

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Alumni

The anthropology major, who minored in health studies and earned a concentration in Africana studies, researched Nigeria’s healthcare system and HIV programs for her senior thesis.
Summer Centered: Ellen Schoder ‘19 Writes for Philadelphia Public School Notebook

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The prospective history major is brushing up on her journalistic skills on her Center for Peace and Global Citizenship-funded internship this summer.
Summer Centered: Yancheng Dai ’18 Helps Jump Start Careers At A Startup

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The math major spent his summer in the nation’s capital working for GiftedHIRE.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Alana Engelbrecht and Sarah Waldis

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The biology majors collaborated on related senior thesis projects on the role of fruit fly genes in mosquito embryo development.
Summer Centered: Robert Carpenter ‘18 Tackles Foreign Affairs

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Students, Centers

The history major is in New York analyzing the latest global events alongside experts on U.S. foreign policy and economics for the Council on Foreign Relations’ influential bimonthly publication.