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.

Professor Erin Schoneveld wears a black shirt in a portrait taken in her office on Haverford's campus.

Athletics Faculty

Professor Erin Schoneveld Named Division III FARA Newcomer of the Year

Schoneveld, a two-time national championship rower, is the College's Faculty Athletics Representative.

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.

"HOW'S JOYA?" Beirut to Haverford, 2006-7

Joya Manasseh '10 entered Haverford as a guest student after fleeing the Shia War in Lebanon.
â€œTHE PENNSYLVANIA LANDSCAPE: COLONIAL TO CONTEMPORARY,â€ FIRST EVER SURVEY OF LANDSCAPE ART IN KEYSTONE STATE

The unsung history of landscape painting in Pennsylvania is revealed in a new exhibition at Haverford's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery.“The Pennsylvania Landscape: Colonial to Contemporary,” running March 2 – April 1, 2007, is the first exhibition to bring together depictions of the Keystone State from first European settlement to the present day.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 18 MONTHS: JESSICA MCHUGH '99 FOLLOWS A DREAM TO 12 COUNTRIES AND FOUR CONTINENTS

Jessica McHugh '99 shares her travels of twelve different countries on four continents.
RAY BROWN '07 EARNS SAMUEL COZEN PLAYER OF THE WEEK AWARD

Haverford senior and co-captain of the basketball team Ray Brown was honored with the Samuel Cozen Player of the Week Award, presented by the Philadelphia Area Small College Basketball Coaches Association.
PEARLS OF WISDOM: LEARNING WITH AND FROM LIBERIAN REFUGEE MOTHERS

Jessie Blumberg '09 recounts her experiences of tutoring two Liberian refugee mothers in English.
EXHIBITION OF RARE ASIAN TEXTILES AT HAVERFORD COLLEGE COLLECTING CONTEXT: AN EXHIBITION OF CHIN TEXTILES WITH A STORY

Rare textiles of the Chin peoples, a heterogeneous hill group living in western Myanmar (Burma), northeastern India, and Bangladesh, will be on view at the John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center, Stokes Building, Room 102, from February 16 to March 25, 2007.
DR. STEPHEN EMERSON '74 APPOINTED HAVERFORD'S 13TH PRESIDENT

Dr. Stephen G. Emerson was named Haverford College's 13th president in a public ceremony held on February 12, 2007.
INSPIRED BY HAVERFORD, SALVATORE LASPADA '82 ENCOURAGES PHILANTHROPY ON AN INTERNATIONAL SCALE

Dr. Salvatore LaSpada '82 was appointed Chief Executive of the Institute for Philanthropy in London in March 2006; prior to that, he had worked for nine years at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York.
RACHEL NEHMER '04 AND BEN WENDEL '04: THESE FORDS WORK WITH THE GREATEST OF EASE

For Rachel Nehmer '04 and Ben Wendel '04, those hours in the lab turned into unique careers as trapeze artists.
SOUNDS OF SUCCESS: MUSIC PERFORMANCE COORDINATOR NANCY MERRIAM COMBINES SKILLS WITH PERSONAL PASSION

Strange but trueâ€”Nancy Merriam, performance coordinator for Haverford's music department, was not fond of classical music while growing up in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. But that all changed the day she took hold of her first double bass.
PERMACULTURE: A NEW METHOD OF CONSERVING AND RESTORING THE ENVIRONMENT, CHAMPIONED BY ETHAN ROLAND '04

Ethan Roland '04 is not particularly fond of the word“sustainable” when discussing environmental matters... That's why the concept of permaculture designâ€”the foundation for his current business venture, AppleSeed Permaculture (www.appleseedpermaculture.com) –appeals to him.
HURFORD HUMANITIES CENTER PRESENTS PLAY BY DEAD GENIUS PRODUCTIONS

The John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center presents the theater group Dead Genius Productions in the original play It or Her, Saturday, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. in Lunt Basement.
ISRAELI, PALESTINIAN ARTISTS UNITE FOR PEACE IN CANTOR FITZGERALD EXHIBIT

Haverford's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery will be host to a unique exhibition of Israeli and Palestinian screen print art, Jan. 26-Feb. 25, 2007. Entitled“35 Printsâ€”35 Years of Occupation: Israeli and Palestinian Artists Against the Occupation and for a Common Tomorrow,” the exhibit was originally created to address the possibility of using art as a bridge to resolving conflict.
THE QUAKER BOUNCERS: Pacificist remedies for wild & crazy parties

In response to excessive drinking at parties, the Quaker Bouncers have formed to ensure safety of students.
HAVERFORD SENIOR EXPLORES INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS AT MAJOR ACADEMIC CONFERENCE

In October, Anirudh Suri '06, a double major in economics and political science, received a rare opportunity for undergraduate students: He joined a panel of distinguished scholarsâ€”a professor emeritus from McGill University, a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Ohio, and the head of the political science department at the University of Baroda, Indiaâ€”in presenting papers at the 34th Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.