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.

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.

Fall Fun with Friends

On a beautiful fall weekend, more than 700 friends and family members flocked to Haverford.

Steve Emerson '74 to Columbia

Haverford's former president, a hematologist/oncologist, has been named director of the University's cancer center.
Craig Borowiak's Solidarity Economy Map in Grid Magazine

The associate professor of political science's Philadelphia Mapping Project is a visual representation of the area's cooperative businesses.
Fosters.com Profiles Runner-Writer Matt Fitzgerald '93

The New England newspaper site talks to the author of Iron War, Dave Scott, Mark Allen and the Greatest Race Ever Run about his career writing about running and his interest as a practitioner of the sport itself.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Reviews People's Biennial

Edith Newhall says "some of these rough-cut diamonds" in the Cantor Fitzgerald's exhibition "make a lasting impression."
Philadelphia Daily News Calls People's Biennial "Radical," "Charming"

The exhibit, which is currently up in the campus' Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through March 2, showcases the work of artists outside the "mainstream" art world.
Bibhav Acharya '06 And His Collaborators Run Nepali Hospital Via Smartphones

The now California-based psychiatry resident started Nyaya Health, a nongovernmental organization that runs a free hospital in remote Nepal, with two classmates in 2005 while still in medical school at Yale University.
Mapping Du Bois

Through internships supported by the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Haverford students help to bring to life a seminal 1899 work by W.E.B. Du Bois.
Paul Cates '50 Profiled in The Portland Press-Herald's Maine Gardener Column

Growing and selling gladiolas helped finance his Haverford education and led to his gladiola-growing family farm, Cates Family Glads.
Laura McGrane Talks Digital Humanities in Inside Higher Ed

The associate professor of English was part of a panel at the Association of American Colleges and Universities that discussed how best to weave digital humanities research into undergraduate classes.
Kimberly Benston Named Interim Provost of Haverford College

The Francis B. Gummere Professor of English will serve a one-year term as the College's chief academic officer.
Christopher Johnson '74 Writes Book "Decoding" Doctor-Speak

The latest book by the pediatric critical care specialist, How Your Child Heals, earns praise from the press, including CBSPhilly.com.
Matt Wetherell '12 Interviews Former Surgeon General Koop

Wetherell spoke to Koop as part of his research for his senior thesis, which uses the role of the Surgeon General as a case study within a broader examination of the ways government bureaus gain and lose power.
Peace Activist Sue Gelber Cannon Featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Cannon, who recently published the book Think, Care, Act: Teaching for a Peaceful Future, will speak on campus Jan. 26 at 7 p.m.
Anita Isaacs Quoted in International Business Times

The associate professor of political science discusses the president of Guatemala's stated policy of using the military to police organized crime.
Danielle Simpson '12 Interviewed in the Joplin Globe

The anthropology major and her in-progress senior thesis are part of a piece on students using tornado-ravaged Joplin, Mo., as a real-world lab for their studies.