This English course uses the spectacular life and death of John Brown to examine issues, such as the place of violence in the cause of liberty and the roles of race and gender in the construction of emancipatory rhetoric, in a diverse set of texts produced across two centuries.
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Haverford’s Office of Academic Resources helps students achieve their goals in a fun twist on a classic game.
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A leading scholar of music in the Renaissance, Freedman has spent the past decade exploring “the digital humanities rabbit hole.”
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Global Chinese Connection welcomed the Year of the Snake at their annual catered dinner.
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Yoshifumi Nomura ’18 created an intimate setting to explore the nuances of everyday college life in DEARBED, a performance and installation piece that invited audience members to listen to recorded monologues playing from pillows in beds set throughout Founders Great Hall.
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In only three years of existence on campus, the Haverford team has pulled off impressive victories and even hosted its first annual invitational last fall.
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What began as a business opportunity for Adam M. Pener ’95 has become a mission: to shift the shipping industry from wood pallets to those made from environmentally friendly corrugated cardboard.
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The club empowers all women interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at Haverford by creating solidarity among them and providing them with a support network.
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This health studies course explores the biological basis for, discoveries behind, and dissemination of medical advances that profoundly influence the quality of life, including antibiotics, anesthetics, HAART therapy, immunotherapy, stem cells and gene editing.
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This political science course explores the central question: What balance should we as individuals strike between craft, design, and marketing, given that the world economy is increasingly elevating design and marketing over craft, while all have undoubted values?
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The comparative literature major and French minor will move to South Korea for a year to teach and connect with her heritage.
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As recent tradition dictates, campus celebrated the first truly spring-like day of the year with pinwheels that mysteriously appeared on Founders Green overnight.
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A new exhibition in the library is the result of two years of research by senior history major Victor Medina Del Toro in the College’s Quaker and Special Collections.
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Thanks to a new partnership between the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, students from Jonathan Wilson's "Economic Botany" class spent spring break in Trinidad and Tobago on an experiential-learning study tour.
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The political science major and environmental studies minor will spend next year teaching in an elementary school in La Rioja, Spain.
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Professors Ying Li and Curt Cacioppo welcomed the Venice Quartet to Magill Library for a showcase of Italian-inspired paintings and string pieces.
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Since April 1 fell on a Saturday this year, Haverford’s natural scientists hung their annual April Fools’ decorations in the KINSC on Friday, March 31.
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At this year's ceremony, on Saturday, May 13, the College will award honorary degrees to writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and environmentalist entrepreneur Yvon Chouinard.
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