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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: “Topics in Enlightenment History: The Self Before The Selfie”

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Faculty

This history seminar uses primary-source readings, historical scholarship, and theoretical texts to explore the “self talk” of the Enlightenment period and to explore parallels to our own social-media age.
Developing Apps with Google

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Students, Science

Four Haverford students participated in an immersive four-day software programming workshop at Bryn Mawr College with the help of developers from Google.
COOL CLASSES: “The Evolution of the Jihadi Movement”

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Faculty

This course explores the evolution of the jihadi movement, focusing on its ideological development since the 1980s.
Fords in Community-Based Urban Redevelopment

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Alumni

A recent panel on “Equitable Urban Redevelopment in Philadelphia” featured three young alums who were led to the same field by their different experiences.
Presidential Search Committee Forming

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Campus

Consistent with plans announced last spring, Kim Benston will conclude his presidential service June 30, 2019, and return to the classroom. A search for his successor will soon commence.
New Student Farmer Initiative Takes Root

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Campus, Students

The inaugural Student Farmer Symposium cultivated campus interest in farming, justice, and ecology.
Collaging the Power of Sound

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Campus, Faculty

Susan Howe, winner of the 2017 Robert Frost Award for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry, gave an on-campus reading.
Presenting a Theatrical Thesis

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Arts, Students

Independent theater major Rory Kennison ’18 wrote a two-act play for his senior thesis, and, with the help of seven student actors, he recently shared his work in a poignant staged reading.
Haverford Innovations Program Helps Launch First Tri-Co Startup Weekend

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Campus, Centers, Students

Aspiring student entrepreneurs from across the Tri-College community learned skills “related to problem-solving, team-building, and critical-thinking.”
COOL CLASSES: “Computer Security: Attacks and Defenses”

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Faculty, Science

This course offers a broad introduction to the field of computer security from two concurrent perspectives: attacks on systems and defenses against those attacks.
Haverford College Named Top Fulbright Producer

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Alumni, Students

Five Fords from the Class of 2017 earned 2017/2018 Fulbright Student Awards.
Exploring the History of Color Photography

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Arts, Campus

Representative photographs and related material from the College’s extensive, 5000-print-deep photography collection takes viewers on a tour of color photography’s history and demonstrates how it has grown to become the norm when it was once the exception.
COOL CLASSES: “From The Gutenberg-Galaxy To Cyberspace: Literature, Film, And New Media”

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Faculty

This comparative literature seminar examines diverse artistic responses (from Bertolt Brecht to Spike Jonze) to a rapidly evolving media environment that oscillate between technophilia and technophobia.
New Exhibit Explores Race and Labor in Museum Artifacts

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Arts, Campus, Centers

Black Atlas, the work of Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, opened in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery with an artist talk and reception.
Love Shack, That’s Where It’s At

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Campus, Students

The weekend before Valentine’s Day, Fords Against Boredom held their annual edible graham-cracker-house-decorating competition with deliciously creative results.