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Standing against a white background, Eric Chen wears a fencing uniform with no helmet. He holds his epee in his right hand and points it at the camera.

Eric Chen '27 Headed to NCAA Fencing Championships

Chen, a sophomore, steps onto the national fencing stage at Penn State University later this month.

Haverford Announces 2025 Honorary Degree Recipients

Legendary track and field coach Tom Donnelly and alternative death care pioneer Katrina Spade ’99 will receive honorary degrees at Commencement.

Matthew McKeever is pictured in a portrait taken on Haverford's campus. He smiles while wearing a grey coat and light blue collared shirt.

Faculty

Professor’s New Book Explores the Economics of Single Motherhood

Thanks for Nothing by Professor and Chair of Sociology Matthew McKeever draws on 40 years of data to understand why the financial outlook for single mothers remains stagnant.

COOL CLASSES: “Débat, Discussion, Dialogue”

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Faculty

Students in this class build their French-language speaking, listening, and reading skills by analyzing, discussing, and debating current events and areas of contemporary interest from newspapers, television, radio, and films.
Casey Londergan and Colleagues Win Cottrell Scholars Collaborative Award

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Faculty, awards

The chemistry professor and his team of collaborators from institutions across the country have been selected for a grant that will support the creation of new models for teaching physical chemistry.
Mapping Migrants in ‘Hostile Terrain 94’

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Arts, Campus, gallery, Students

This semester, an exhibit in Lutnick library maps migrants who died trying to cross the US-Mexico border.
COOL CLASSES: “Advanced Topics: Observational Astronomy”

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Faculty, Science

This core course in the astronomy program uses observations of the night skies—made in campus’ Strawbridge Observatory—to learn about the astrophysics of the Universe.
Beyond the Bars: Imagining a World Without Prison

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Campus, Centers, Faculty

The Hurford Center’s yearlong “Imagining Abolitionist Futures” series explores the possibilities of arts and humanities programming to aid the struggle to dismantle the carceral state and build reparative practices and institutions.
Zach Gabor ‘15 Challenges Rationality and Pursues Normative Truth

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Alumni, Campus

The Haverford philosophy and mathematics double major discussed his time as a Ph.D. student at Harvard University as part of the Young Academic Alumni Lecture Series.
Students Fight the (Bio)power

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Students

Lisa Jane Graham and Darin Hayton’s “Biopower” class curated an exhibition using materials from Lutnick Library’s Quaker and Special Collections.
Where They’re Headed: Adrian Velonis ‘22

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Alumni, Science

The computer science and English double major now works as a technical writer for Liquibase.
Imani Perry’s South to America Comes North

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Campus, Students

The Princeton professor came to campus to discuss her latest book, which served as Haverford’s first ever “Campus Read.”
Where They’re Headed: Ben Pham Roodman ’22

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Alumni

The math major who minored in economics and computer science is joining Public Finance Management as a financial consultant.
From the Side to the Front of Contemporary Folk Music

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Alumni, magazine

Mark Schatz '78 has been a sideman in the contemporary and bluegrass scene for years; now, it's his turn in the front of the genre.
CPGC Virtual Exchanges Connect Fords With Students in The United Arab Emirates

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Students, Faculty, Centers

Thanks to a recent grant from the Stevens Initiative, the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship is bringing a virtual exchange program with American University of Sharjah to four Haverford classrooms this year.
Club Life: College Radio Lives Again

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Arts, Campus, Students

WHRC is bringing radio back to campus.
Where They’re Headed: Julie Post ’22

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Alumni

The anthropology major and health studies minor is studying to become a certified nurse-midwife at Vanderbilt University.
Mapping Climate Change

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Arts, Campus, Centers, gallery

Philadelphia-area photographer David Freese’s exhibition, “The Geography of Climate Change,” gathers 39 black-and-white photographs in the Atrium Gallery of the Jane Lutnick Fine Arts Center.