Haverford Headlines

Students work on their finals while seated at tables forming a large rectangle.

Cram Artists

With Noon to Noon, seniors Emmett Huiskamp and Ellie Baron turn finals week into a performance art piece.

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.

Summer Centered: Junior Nguyen ’22 Sheds Light on Eco-Friendly WLEDs

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Students, Centers, Science

This summer, the biology major is studying light emission and creating environmentally friendly lightbulbs with a former Haverford professor at Thomas Jefferson University.
What They Learned: Leonard Gadicke ’21

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Alumni

The English major explored the religious references in J.D. Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey.”
Summer Centered: Alissa Vandenbark ’22 Studies the Development of Prejudices in Children

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Students, Centers, Science

The psychology major is a research assistant in Assistant Professor Ryan Lei’s Intersectionality in the Social Mind Lab this summer.
Summer Centered: Fords Get SLOP-PY with New Student-Led Online Programming Platform

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Sophie Schleifer ‘22, Liana Wilson-Graff ‘23, and Hilda Delgado ‘22 make video production accessible to non-film-school students with SLOP, their new online programming platform.
What They Learned: Shufan Xia ’21

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The physics major used Oort constants to study the Milky Way for her thesis.
Summer Centered: Buying Into Impact Investing

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Students, Centers

Rising sophomores Hassaan Rao and Annais Gangolf are analyzing the social and environmental impact of different companies and organizations this summer as a part of Haverford’s Microfinance and Impact Investing Initiative.
What They Learned: Jacob Landsberg ’21

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The physics major analyzed the movement of locust swarms in his thesis.
Summer Centered: Becca Matson Dives Into the Archives

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Becca Matson ’22 is working with digital and physical archives this summer as a summer programs assistant at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Summer Centered: Maria Reyes Pacheco ’24 Interns at the New Sanctuary Movement

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Students, Centers

The prospective history major, sociology minor, and Latin American and Iberian studies concentrator is an education intern thanks to support from the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship.
What They Learned: Elena Marcovici ’21

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Alumni

The political science major explored the forces that affect education reform in her thesis.
Summer Centered: Andrew Lummus '21 Goes Behind-The-Scenes at the Penn Museum

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Students, Centers

The history major is a group sales intern at the Penn Museum this summer.
Summer Centered: Rhea Chandran ’23 Builds Institutional Memory

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Students

In her work as the library’s “Documenting Student Life” intern this summer, the history major is chronicling campus strikes by collecting oral histories from students and alumni.
What They Learned: Ethan Weiss ’21

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Alumni

The sociology major analyzed cooperation across party lines in the House of Representatives using social network analysis.
Design + Make Summer Fellowship is Some Work and All Play

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Design + Make Summer Fellows in the VCAM’s Maker Arts Space spent eight weeks designing and prototyping objects of play for Turning Points for Children and Playful Learning Landscapes.
Summer Centered: Isabel Russak '23 Creates Fun and Accessible Camp Programming

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Students, Centers

The psychology major and neuroscience and Spanish double minor is helping neurodivergent children develop social skills as a camp counselor at Apex Summer Camp.