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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.

COOL CLASSES: “Law and Anthropology: The War on Drugs”

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Faculty, Students

This course explores anthropological approaches to the law and legal regimes, with special emphasis on the relationship between law, power and politics, social hierarchy, and the institutionalization of inequality in the United States in the context of the War on Drugs.
Roger L. Easton Jr. ’72 Presents Multispectral Imaging Technology at Haverford

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Alumni, Campus, Science

Leading members of the field of imaging science visited campus to demonstrate its potential applications in libraries and museums, including Haverford’s own collection.
Where They’re Headed: Eliza Koren ’21

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Alumni, Science

The psychology major is pursuing a Ph.D. in school psychology at Lehigh University.
COOL CLASSES: “Cancer Narratives”

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Faculty, Students

This health studies course explores the human experience of cancer patients and their families to provide a lens to critically examine the healthcare system and sociopolitical conditions of their societies.
Where They’re Headed: Matthew Danielson ’21

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Alumni, Science

The chemistry major is pursuing a master’s degree in neuroscience at King’s College London.
Plant Freezing Would Have Limited the Distribution of Forests 300 Million Years Ago

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Faculty

A new paper by a team that includes Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Jonathan Wilson provides a new perspective on a chapter in plant evolutionary history by focusing on the role of low temperatures in shaping terrestrial forests.
Fords Dive Into the Archive

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Campus, Students

A team of nine students curated the Out of the Stacks! exhibit using an array of Lutnick Library resources.
Where They’re Headed: Sarah Evenson ’21

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Alumni

The sociology major is finishing her master’s of bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania as part of Haverford’s 4+1 Bioethics Program.
COOL CLASSES: “Advanced Japanese: Discerning Hidden Meanings in Japanese Media”

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Faculty, Students

This modern Japanese language course immerses students in an array of common Japanese media forms that subtly reinforce powerful, widely held, and often unquestioned historical, cultural, and political preconceptions underlying popular ideas about Japanese identity.
Where They’re Headed: Johanna Batterton ’21

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Alumni, Science

The chemistry major is pursuing a master’s in environmental engineering at Northwestern University this fall.
KINSC Science Research Symposium Showcases Student Accomplishments

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Campus, Science, Students

Students presented the results of the summer research projects at the day-long event hosted by the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center.
Daniel Grin Awarded National Science Foundation Grant

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Faculty, awards

The assistant professor of physics and astronomy was awarded a $135,000 grant from the NSF to both fund research in cosmology and help support students.
Slavs and Tatars Compares Apples to Oranges

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Arts, Campus, Faculty

“The Contest in the Fruits” exhibition in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery puts a modern, hip-hop spin on an ancient Uyghur poem.
Where They’re Headed: Colin Battis ’21

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Alumni, Science

The environmental studies major begins his Quaker Voluntary Service fellowship this fall where he will work with Communities Responding to Extreme Weather.
New Faces in Counseling and Psychological Services

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Campus

This fall, CAPS welcomed two new senior staff member, 12 graduate trainees, and two new psychiatric consultants.