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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.

Two students look at a clipboard as they register to vote in the GIAC. One is wearing a black Haverford t-shirt with the black squirrel on it.

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The Run-Up Winds Down

As Election Day nears, Fords embrace their role as a critical voting bloc.

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Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Presents Photographs by Magnum Photographer Moises Saman

The Ghosts of History, on view through Dec. 14, explores the conflicting narratives surrounding the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq and its aftermath.

COOL CLASSES: “The Sense and Senses of Islam”

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This religion course introduces students to debates about the senses in Islam, including exploring the relationship between sound and the sacred.
COOL CLASSES: “Modality and Language: Mandarin and ASL as Examples”

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This co-taught linguistics course, which explores five issues in which modality effects might be evidenced in Mandarin and American Sign Language, is experimental, as the professors and students form and test hypotheses against data together.
How Can a Business Drive Positive Social Change?

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Students

Computer science major Isabella Muno ’21, who recently attended the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Detroit to explore possibilities for her own campus-created startup, writes about what she learned there.
COOL CLASSES: “Global Change Biology”

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This biology course for non-majors explores how human activities impact Earth’s climate and, in turn, all living things on the planet.
Impact Challenge Partners with Puentes de Salud

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Centers, Students

Sponsored by Haverford Innovations Program and Swarthmore’s Center for Innovation and Leadership, a daylong workshop led by Alexandra Wolkoff ’14 from Puentes de Salud gave participants direction on how to support Latinx immigrant communities in Philadelphia.
Spilling the Beans on the Microfinance and Impact Investing Initiative

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Students

The Fall 2018 iteration of the “Impact Investing” course chose to support Vega Coffee, a direct-trade venture whose products are now available in the Coop and new Library Cafe.
COOL CLASSES: “The ‘Rise’ of the Novel”

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This English course introduces students to the early English novel, as well as to the tradition of scholarship that seeks to explain its origins.
CLUB LIFE: Iconic Dance Team Steps into the Spotlight

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Arts, Students

Founded in 2018, Haverford’s Step team isn’t afraid to be heard.
COOL CLASSES: “A Musical Millennium: From Convent to Concert Hall”

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This music course examines musical change over a thousand-year span, uncovering how—and why—Western music evolved from a monastic ritual of plain, unaccompanied song into a secular entertainment for elite audiences in modern cities.
Haverford Welcomes Paula Palmer as Friend in Residence

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This semester the Quaker Affairs Office is welcoming Paula Palmer, an activist and a long-standing advocate for the rights of Indigenous peoples, to campus as this semester’s Friend in Residence.
CLUB LIFE: Horror Council’s Spooky Screenings

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Campus, Students

A new club on campus encourages Fords to face their fears among friends.
Arboretum Hosts A Fall Fling

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Members of the community celebrated the changing season at the Arboretum’s Fall Festival, which included a Nature Trail night hike lit by handmade jack-o’-lanterns.
COOL CLASSES: “Sex Under Capitalism: Intimate Relations Between Economy and Society”

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This sociology course engages in debates about families as economic units, women’s bodies as social factories, gay identity’s relationship to labor and consumption, the “pricing” of unpaid care, and sex work and trafficking.
Philosophy Department Unveils New Collection Spotlighting Minority Contributions to the Field

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Alumni, Campus, Students

The new Gladstone Lee Mohan Collection consists of dozens of philosophical texts by underrepresented authors and is named after an alum and two current students.
COOL CLASSES: “Body Media: Wearable Technology and Digital Bodies”

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This visual studies course introduces students to critical design and creative practices that address technologies that are worn on the body, that digitize the body, and that extend the body.