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.

Honorary Degree Recipients Announced for Commencement 2016

At Haverford's 178th Commencement, held on May 14, the College will award honorary degrees to anti-poverty policy expert Robert Greenstein and prison-issues activist Laura Magnani.
A Friend Returns

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Campus

Poet-performer Dr. Amanda Kemp came back to campus for a second time this year as Haverford’s Friend in Residence.
Updates for Alumni & Parents

Visiting alumni presentations now online… Upcoming events on and off campus… Sustainable Giving… Welcome new AAEC members.
Tiffany Nguyen ’16 Studies in West Philly

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Students

Haverford’s Quaker Consortium allows students like Nguyen to take classes at the University of Pennsylvania.
John Muse's Films On Fandor

The visiting assistant professor of Independent College Programs collaborates on experimental documentaries with Jeanne C. Finley, and their work is now being featured on the film site.
COOL CLASSES: “Critical Disability Studies: Theory and Practice”

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Centers, Faculty, Students

This health studies course, inspired by interested students, features a semester-long project in partnership with the Center for Creative Works, a studio and teaching space for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Foolin’ Around In The KINSC

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Campus, Science

As is tradition, student scientists (and mathematicians and psychologists) decorated the campus science center in honor of April Fool’s Day.
On Mindfulness and Meditation: Jon Kabat-Zinn '64

The Whitehead Mindfulness Initiative, which promotes good health and stress reduction in the campus community, brought the meditation pioneer back to Haverford for a two-day visit.
Sidney Waldman 1940–2016

The emeritus professor of political science, a member of the Haverford faculty since 1966, died March 23. He was 76.
22nd Annual Layout Pigout Tournament

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Students

Ultimate teams from up and down the east coast converged on Haverford’s campus to play last weekend, and the College’s men’s team, Big Donkey Ultimate, pulled off multiple upsets to take home fourth place in a tournament that hosted some big Division III names.
Lindsay Reckson Awarded American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

The assistant professor will use the 2016-17 fellowship to finish her book, Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature.
Jay Garcia '16 Receives Fulbright U.S. Student Award

The biology major will spend next year in the Netherlands conducting research on the protein that causes Huntington's disease in C. elegans worms.
Freeman Hrabowski on Broadening Participation in American Higher Ed

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Campus

The president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and chair of the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans came to campus for a talk.
COOL CLASSES: “The New Black Arts Movement: Expressive Culture After Black Nationalism”

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Arts, Faculty

This class frames contemporary African American literature as a response to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and includes study of writers from Amiri Baraka and Audra Lordre to Ta-Nehisi Coates and even rapper Kendrick Lamar.
A Day of Community Engagement

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Students

On March 18, all members the Haverford community—students, faculty, and staff—were invited to take a break from their usual Friday schedules to participate in volunteer projects at sites throughout the Philadelphia region in honor of the 34 years of service of the now-retired Marilou Allen.