After moving into their dorms, the Class of 2020 began their first-year experience with a five-day orientation program.
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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.
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Last week, the 387 students comprising the Class of 2028 began their transition to college life with Customs, Haverford’s signature orientation program.
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Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.
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The inaugural class of Tuttle Summer Arts Lab fellows spent this summer working on a film project with Visual Media Scholar Vicky Funari.
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For his thesis, the chemistry major worked on a computational problem of a lab in Montreal, where he had previously conducted a summer research internship.
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Josh Fried '18 spent his summer in Washington, D.C., as a legislative intern for Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey.
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This summer, 10 Haverford students received support from a new grant to conduct on- and off-campus research.
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The political science major researched how bipartisan consensus on criminal justice reform changed from the 1994 Crime Bill to the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act.
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The recent graduate and rising junior spent the summer tending to crops, harvesting produce, planning seeding schedules, and performing administrative duties for the campus farm.
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The computer science major studied how machine learning models work by using a novel approach to determine which features of a data set are the most useful to the model.
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The physics major joined the Imperial College London’s experimental solid state physics lab this summer, working to advance solar-cell efficiency.
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The anthropology major, who minored in health studies and earned a concentration in Africana studies, researched Nigeria’s healthcare system and HIV programs for her senior thesis.
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The prospective history major is brushing up on her journalistic skills on her Center for Peace and Global Citizenship-funded internship this summer.
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The math major spent his summer in the nation’s capital working for GiftedHIRE.
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The biology majors collaborated on related senior thesis projects on the role of fruit fly genes in mosquito embryo development.
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The history major is in New York analyzing the latest global events alongside experts on U.S. foreign policy and economics for the Council on Foreign Relations’ influential bimonthly publication.
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The economics major studied how Foreign Direct Investment inflows and privatization of enterprises in China affect the country’s innovation across industry sectors.
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