Haverford Headlines

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.

Dali Pomfret is pictured on a baseball field. He leans against a chainlink fence while an out of focus scoreboard sits in the background.

Students Athletics

Major League Mindset

Dali Pomfret '25 started out wanting to play professional baseball. After an eye-opening internship, he’s now got his mind set on an even loftier goal.

Remembering an Olympian

Haverford alumnus Philip Noel-Baker, who took the silver in the 1500 meters at the 1920 Summer Olympics, is the only person in history to have won both an Olympic medal and a Nobel Prize.
College Counseling

Benjamin Wohl '14 is spending the summer helping to develop new and better ways of guiding high school students through the college admissions process.
The Rare Book School founded by Terry Belanger '63 in The New York Times

The school, which the 2005 MacArthur Fellow launched in 1983, brings together 300 librarians, conservators, scholars, dealers, collectors and book-lovers at the University of Virginia each summer.
Seeing the Trees for the Forest

Karan Shah '09 has helped plant more than 251,000 trees in India through his enterprising online venture Grow-Trees.com.
A Summer at Lankenau

This summer Hiba Dhanani '14 is interning at the Lankenau Clinical Care Center, where she is assisting physicians and nurses while working on turning the clinic into a patient-centered medical home.
Jennifer Punt Awarded National Science Foundation Grant

The professor of biology will receive $300,000 over two years to continue to fund her T cell research.
Entrepreneurism 101

Fords offer tips, advice and lessons learned on the road to launching a new venture.
Teaching About Galaxies Big and Small

Astronomer Beth Willman's role as an inspiring scholar-educator is recognized with a CAREER Grant from the National Science Foundation.
Documentary Summer

Hilary Brashear '13 is interning with New York City filmmakers on two documentaries. One examines illegal labor practices at strip clubs. The other focuses on the Wisconsin recall election.
Summer in the Stacks: Interning at the Library of Congress

Gabrielle Winick '13 is interning with the Library of Congress Publishing Office in Washington, D.C., assisting on the production of two books and getting a glimpse of the publishing world.
Winifred Johnson '09 Wins National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

The fellowship will fund three years of research for the chemical oceanography student in the MIT/WHOI joint program.
Susanna Wing Talks Mali on IPS

The associate professor of political science is quoted in an article about U.S. aid for Malian refugees.
Financing the Poor

Through a CPGC summer internship, Ananya Mukkavilli '14 is working for the Grameen Foundation in Washington, D.C., which supports microfinance efforts around the world.
A Summer at the MÃ¼tter

Alex Tonsing '13 is interning at the MÃ¼tter Museum in Philadelphia, transcribing and scanning Civil War diaries.
Benjamin Allen '02 Is Part of a Harvard Team Working to Transform Cancer Treatment

According to <em>The Harvard Gazette</em>, the mathematical biology postdoctoral fellow helped analyze results of a study on drug resistance in cancers that could make many cancers manageable, if not curable.