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.

Lane Savadove '89 Relocates a Theater Company

After Hurricane Katrina destroyed their theater in New Orleans and the homes of many company members, Savadove's EgoPo Theater Company made a new home in Philadelphia.
Zolani Ngwane Speaks at Philadelphia Theater's South Africa Symposium

The associate professor of anthropology joined a panel of experts to discuss post-apartheid South Africa at the Wilma Theater in conjunction with the current run of Athol Fugard's play Coming Home.
Mel Santer Delves Into Science's Past

Two articles by the Emeritus Professor of Biology, focusing on the history of notable scientific discoveries, have been published this fall in academic journals.
Quaker & Special Collections Celebrates Acquisition of Historic Records on November 8

The event will honor the arrival of more than 300 years of records from the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia, the city's oldest Quaker meeting.
Discussing the Challenge of Democracy in Guatemala

U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala Stephen McFarland visited campus for a public conversation with CPGC Global Leader for Peace Jorge Morales Toj about the country's hopes for peace and reconciliation.
A Flu Update From President Emerson

Details about flu care at Haverford.
Update: Haverford & The Economy

VP Dick Wynn writes to the campus community with highlights including Standard & Poor's reaffirmation of our AA rating, good news about the endowment, and the outlook for FY 2011.
An "Inside" Look at the Justice System

Haverford's Inside-Out program, sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, brings bi-co students together with incarcerated women and men at local correctional facilities to learn collaboratively about restorative justice.
Anat Yom-Tov Joins the Haverford Faculty as Assistant Professor of Sociology

A scholar whose research focuses on social stratification and labor market inequality, the quantitative sociologist brings her expertise in data analysis to the College's strong foundation in qualitative sociology.
Feeding the World

The Jewish Exponent recently published an Op Ed piece adapted from a talk American Jewish World Service President Ruth Messinger gave at Haverford in October. Messinger, who spoke about the AJWS's "Fighting Hunger From the Ground Up" campaign, spent four days on campus as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.
Opinion Piece by Karan Shah '09 Appears in Wall Street Journal's India-Based Publication

The former economics major advises India's United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government not to misuse governors for partisan purposes.
Alumni Founders of Video Game Company Aren't Just Playing Around

Halsted Larsson '03 and Tim Ambrogi '04 are two of the creators of Final Form Games, a Philadelphia-based game development company. Their mission is, among other things, to create socially responsible games.
Star Gazing at Haverford

Haverford astronomer Bruce Partridge credits the International Year of Astronomy, a worldwide Galileo celebration, as inspiration for“No Night Without a Telescope.” The event, which Partridge helped launch, features free observing nights at eight Philadelphia area institutions every night of the lunar cycle running through November 24.
Bi-Co Students to Present at Renowned Asian Studies Conference

(clockwise from top left) Andrew McNeal '10, Patrick Lozada '11, Christina Wagner BMC '11 and Elisa Hernandez BMC '10 will deliver papers at the Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR-AAS), Oct. 30-Nov. 1. Undergraduates rarely present at the meeting.
Casey Londergan Receives NIH Grant

The funding will allow the Haverford chemistry professor and his lab to use new methods to study the structural changes that occur when proteins bind to other proteins. The lab's research could shed light on several common diseases associated with disordered proteins.