Haverford Headlines

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

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.

Scott Peltzer poses for a portrait in the shop at Brooklyn Woods. He is surrounded by numerous woodworking tools.

Alumni Haverford magazine

Building Futures

Through Brooklyn Woods, Scott Peltzer ’82 teaches job hunters a lost art and self-sustaining skills for life.

Faculty Students

Education as Liberation

Philadelphia’s Freedom Side School imagines future intersections between education and anti-carceral movements with a Haverford first-year writing seminar.

Zach Gabor ‘15 Challenges Rationality and Pursues Normative Truth

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Alumni, Campus

The Haverford philosophy and mathematics double major discussed his time as a Ph.D. student at Harvard University as part of the Young Academic Alumni Lecture Series.
Students Fight the (Bio)power

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Students

Lisa Jane Graham and Darin Hayton’s “Biopower” class curated an exhibition using materials from Lutnick Library’s Quaker and Special Collections.
Where They’re Headed: Adrian Velonis ‘22

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Alumni, Science

The computer science and English double major now works as a technical writer for Liquibase.
Imani Perry’s South to America Comes North

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Campus, Students

The Princeton professor came to campus to discuss her latest book, which served as Haverford’s first ever “Campus Read.”
Where They’re Headed: Ben Pham Roodman ’22

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Alumni

The math major who minored in economics and computer science is joining Public Finance Management as a financial consultant.
From the Side to the Front of Contemporary Folk Music

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Alumni, magazine

Mark Schatz '78 has been a sideman in the contemporary and bluegrass scene for years; now, it's his turn in the front of the genre.
CPGC Virtual Exchanges Connect Fords With Students in The United Arab Emirates

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Students, Faculty, Centers

Thanks to a recent grant from the Stevens Initiative, the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship is bringing a virtual exchange program with American University of Sharjah to four Haverford classrooms this year.
Club Life: College Radio Lives Again

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Arts, Campus, Students

WHRC is bringing radio back to campus.
Where They’re Headed: Julie Post ’22

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Alumni

The anthropology major and health studies minor is studying to become a certified nurse-midwife at Vanderbilt University.
Mapping Climate Change

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Arts, Campus, Centers, gallery

Philadelphia-area photographer David Freese’s exhibition, “The Geography of Climate Change,” gathers 39 black-and-white photographs in the Atrium Gallery of the Jane Lutnick Fine Arts Center.
Lily Press ’09 and Simon Linn-Gerstein ’09 Make Beautiful Music

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Alumni, magazine

The alumni duo known as Strange Interlude is looking to change the way people think of chamber music by turning it into a conversation between audience and performer.
A Conversation with Ariana Huberman

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Faculty

The associate professor of Spanish talks about her new book, which investigates the underlying themes of Jewish mysticism in modern Latin American art.
KINSC Highlights Students’ Scientific Accomplishments

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Campus, Centers, Science, Students

Students who conducted research this summer presented their findings and results at the annual Undergraduate Science Research Symposium.
Where They’re Headed: Lucy Zhao ’22

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Alumni

The biology major is starting Harvard University’s Ph.D. program in biological and biomedical sciences.
Taking Time, Expanding Knowledge

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magazine, Faculty

Even during a pandemic, sabbaticals prove invaluable for faculty and students.