On Sunday, May 18, Haverford's Class of 2014 celebrated Commencement, becoming the latest group of alumni in the College's 181-year history.
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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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Over the summer, Haverford’s Bookstore received a facelift and now sports a broader array of College-branded merchandise. The book-purchasing process has also been simplified.
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The campus-wide initiative builds on the College’s previous work to build a stronger sense of welcome and belonging for all who live, learn, and work on Haverford’s campus.
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Report on the controversy surrounding our invitation to Dr. Robert Birgeneau to receive an honorary degree and come to campus as one of four speakers to our graduating class of 2014.
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The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship will fund the summer work of 64 students.
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The history and Russian double major will teach English at a university in Russia and also plans to design a creative writing course to help his students practice their skills.
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In the Benjamin Collins Professor of Social Sciences's piece, "New Bad Old Times For Guatemala," she argues that the country's hard-won progress in the wake of the genocide trial of General RÃos Montt is starting to falter.
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The illustrator's work accompanied the story "The Toxic Brew In Our Yards" in May 10's Sunday Review.
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The website allows visitors to track real-time electricity usage in 14 buildings around campus which have been fitted with special meters.
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The biology major and neuroscience minor, who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in neurogenetics after Haverford, is one of 283 students from across the country chosen for the premier undergraduate science scholarship of its kind.
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The anthropology major will serve as a teaching assistant in an English language class at a public university.
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Van Son will teach English at Royal University of Phnom Penh, in Cambodia.
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Reviewer Edith Newhall says if I can't dance to it, then it's not my revolution, which explores countercultural artistic practices and anarchy, features some "terrific works" and "manages to stand out as something different."
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The Shaw Prize-winning University of Virginia professor and his brother, Steve, the astronaut who used the robot arm of the space shuttle Discovery to lift the Hubble Space Telescope out of the cargo bay while flying in orbit, are profiled for making astronomy the "family business" of sorts.
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The former Haverford soccer player and current Drexel University women's club soccer team coach is using her College connections and love of the sport to raise money to help victims of Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines.
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The assistant director of the Office of Academic Resources writes about the importance of teaching students to revise their work and the College's writing program.
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The prosecutor who helped put away dictators such as Chile's General Augusto Pinochet and Argentina's General Jorge Videla has been teaching two classes and lecturing on campus all semester.
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