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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.

Faculty

COOL CLASSES: “Lithography – Materials and Techniques”

In Hee Sook Kim’s class, students explore the foundation of offset printing, the standard before the dawn of digital printing.

Fall Fun with Friends

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

Summer 2014 CPGC Internships Announced

The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship will fund the summer work of 64 students.
Raymond DeLuca '14 Awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Russia

The history and Russian double major will teach English at a university in Russia and also plans to design a creative writing course to help his students practice their skills.
Anita Isaacs Pens New York Times Op/Ed

In the Benjamin Collins Professor of Social Sciences's piece, "New Bad Old Times For Guatemala," she argues that the country's hard-won progress in the wake of the genocide trial of General RÃos Montt is starting to falter.
Sarah Jacoby '06 Illustration in The New York Times

The illustrator's work accompanied the story "The Toxic Brew In Our Yards" in May 10's Sunday Review.
New "Building Dashboard" Aids Sustainability Efforts

The website allows visitors to track real-time electricity usage in 14 buildings around campus which have been fitted with special meters.
Juliette Rando '15 Earns Goldwater Scholarship

The biology major and neuroscience minor, who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in neurogenetics after Haverford, is one of 283 students from across the country chosen for the premier undergraduate science scholarship of its kind.
Nour El-Youssef '12 Awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Brazil

The anthropology major will serve as a teaching assistant in an English language class at a public university.
Ben Van Son '13 Awarded Princeton in Asia Fellowship

Van Son will teach English at Royal University of Phnom Penh, in Cambodia.
The latest Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Show Reviewed in The Philadelphia Inquirer

Reviewer Edith Newhall says if I can't dance to it, then it's not my revolution, which explores countercultural artistic practices and anarchy, features some "terrific works" and "manages to stand out as something different."
John Hawley '80 In The Wichita Eagle

The Shaw Prize-winning University of Virginia professor and his brother, Steve, the astronaut who used the robot arm of the space shuttle Discovery to lift the Hubble Space Telescope out of the cargo bay while flying in orbit, are profiled for making astronomy the "family business" of sorts.
Katie Bigay '13 Kick Starts Fundraising for Typhoon Relief

The former Haverford soccer player and current Drexel University women's club soccer team coach is using her College connections and love of the sport to raise money to help victims of Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines.
Lionel Anderson Writes Post for New York Times' Learning Network Blog

The assistant director of the Office of Academic Resources writes about the importance of teaching students to revise their work and the College's writing program.
Haverford Conversation: Carlos Castresana

The prosecutor who helped put away dictators such as Chile's General Augusto Pinochet and Argentina's General Jorge Videla has been teaching two classes and lecturing on campus all semester.
Ashok Gangadean on The Cover of SOPHIA

The Margaret Gest Professor of Global Philosophy is featured in a Q&A about his upcoming book, <em>Awakening Global Enlightenment: The Maturation of our Species</em>, in the Athena International E-journal.
Honorary Degree Recipients Announced for Commencement 2014

At this year's May 18 ceremony, the College will award honorary degrees to higher education leader William G. Bowen, environmentalist Fred Krupp, and poet Elizabeth Alexander.