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.

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.

Physics Professor Peter Love Wins Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award

The award recognizes full-time faculty members with outstanding teaching records.
Graduate Fellowship Sends Anna Pancoast '09 to Explore Galaxies

Pancoast will pursue a Ph.D. in physics at UC Santa Barbara with the help of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
Howard Shelanski '86 Appointed to FTC Post

A Georgetown Law professor, he is named Deputy Director for Antitrust of the Bureau of Economics.
Madeleine Schlefer '09 Heads to Indonesia to Pursue Davis Project for Peace

With funding from the Davis United World College Scholars Program, Schlefer hopes to use Indonesia's past turmoil in promoting future peace.
Congratulations Class of 2009!

For the first time in 26 years, Haverford's commencement moved indoors. Visit the <a href="http://news.haverford.edu/blogs/haverblog/">Haverblog</a> for details. <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/ns/commencement/2009">Watch the video!</a>
Thomas Farley '77 Named New York City Health Commissioner

An infectious disease expert who directs Tulane University's Department of Community Health Sciences, Farley joins the health department just as the city is contending with a swine flu outbreak.
Haverford Alum Receives Honorary Degree at Nearby College

Tony Petitti '83 Delivered the Commencement Address at Delaware Valley College.
Listen Up: Ben Finane '99 Helms New Magazine for Classical Music Lovers

Listen: Life with Classical Music, of which Finane is editor-in-chief, is the first American lifestyle magazine geared specifically towards fans of the genre.
Prof. Anita Isaacs Observes the Charged Political Situation in Guatemala

Political scientist Anita Isaacs, an authority on the history of civil war and reconciliation in Guatemala, just returned from a visit to the country. In this Q&A she discusses the recent assassination of a lawyer who had taped a video blaming the country's president should he be murdered, and the growing strife that has resulted.
"Doing da Vinci"

Leonardo da Vinci expert Jonathan Pevsner '83 is the resident scholar on a six-week Discovery Channel series that has him working with a team of architects, carpenters and engineers to construct some of da Vinci's inventions.
Playing for Laughs

Students in assistant professor of Classics Robert Germany's Latin 102 class got to do more than just focus on grammar and vocabulary this term. Also part of the course: a semester-ending, script-in-hand performance of Germany's original translation of one of the masterworks of Roman comedy.
Haverford Students Take the Stage at American Physical Society Meeting

Students past and present both contributed to and gave several research presentations along with physics faculty members at the Society's 2009 Meeting in March.
Karen Katz '11 Named Gilder-Lehrman One-Week History Scholar

This summer, Katz will spend a week exploring Abraham Lincoln's ties to New York City through research and field trips.
Professor's Research Takes Flight With Launch of Planck Satellite

Bruce Partridge, who has been working on Planck for nearly two decades, was watching the May 14 launch live in French Guiana.
Accidental Expert

Joel Warner '01 was surprised to find that a web page he created on "Swine Flu Epidemics" for a course he took at Haverford in 1999 has become a much-referenced source on the Web. Warner, a writer for Denver Westword, wrote a blog post about that long-ago course and his sudden notoriety.