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.

Where They’re Headed: Rachael Garnick ’17

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The political science major will help devise communication strategies at San Francisco-based brand marketing and advertising agency Swirl, which is run by a fellow Ford.
Summer Centered: Hope Ebert ’19 Brings Moxie to Farming

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The biology major is interning with Food Moxie, a Philly-based food-justice co-op and partner of the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship.
Summer Centered: Nhi Nguyen ’18 Works with the Smithsonian’s First Community Museum

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At the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum, the anthropology major and museum studies minor is learning about and reaching out to the southeastern D.C. community.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Chloe Wang ’17

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The chemistry major and environmental studies minor used untargeted chemical analysis to study honeybee health.
Where They’re Headed: Nora Tien ’17

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The computer science major will begin the Google Engineering Residency program in New York this fall.
Summer Centered: Christopher Bechen ’18 Archives Activist Media in Philly

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At the Media Mobilizing Project, the double major in fine arts and growth and structure of cities will begin organizing video documentation of city activism for the creation of a public archive.
Summer Reading: Rachael Beyer

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Campus

The art registrar suggests three titles (two nonfiction, one fiction) about community and utopia.
Summer Centered: Reilly Milburn ’19 and Justin Otter ’19 Simulate Galaxies in the Sunshine State

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At the University of Florida in Gainesville, the two rising juniors are using supercomputer models to learn about the evolution of the universe’s early galaxies.
Shu-wen Wang Earns Two Early Career Awards

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In the span of just 12 months, the assistant professor of psychology has been honored by the Asian American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program.
Where They’re Headed: Rebecca Miller ’17

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After changing her mind about becoming a biomedical engineer, the math major and statistics minor will use her love of numbers as a marketing data analyst at Crossix.
Summer Centered: Stephen Niesobecki ’18 Brings Sociology to Law

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With his Summer Research Assistantship, the rising senior is bridging disciplines as he prepares to write his sociology thesis about unconscionability in contract law.
Where They’re Headed: Rachel Miller ’17

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At the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the political science major will gain experience in fields of international security, foreign policy, and counterterrorism.
Summer Centered: Joseph Spir '20 Helps Link Tourists with Peruvian Indigenous Communities

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The prospective anthropology major, Spanish minor, and Latin American, Iberian, and Latino studies concentrator will learn about Andean cultures by volunteering for a sustainable tourism program.
Where They’re Headed: Chris Hoogstraten ’17

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After graduating summa cum laude with an English degree, Hoogstraten will teach his language of study to undergraduate students in Chiang Rai, Thailand.
Kristen Whalen Earns NSF Award

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Faculty

The assistant professor of biology was awarded $356,028 as part of a larger collaborative grant to fund her work exploring why certain "infochemicals" in the ocean cause phytoplankton death.