The Professor Emeritus of Physics and the former John and Barbara Bush Professor of Natural Sciences died on June 8. He was 74.
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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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For Davis, a prospective biology major, the research she’s pursuing at Haverford is deeply personal.
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Dr. Ira Reid: Haverford College’s Unsung Scholar Activist explores the impact of Haverford's first Black professor.
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The Latin major, who minored in psychology, is pursuing a career in education as a way to combat the social and structural inequalities that plague classrooms across the country.
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The double major used both her theses in biology and Spanish to address environmental concerns.
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Tom Barbash '83 reflects on the life experiences and intergenerational relationships that informed his most recent novel, The Dakota Winters.
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The physics major used his senior thesis to explore methods of conceptualizing dark matter.
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The chemistry major, biochemistry concentrator, and French and Francophone studies minor reflects on the collaborative aspects of his thesis process.
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By analyzing compounds from animal bones, archaeologist Kevin P. Smith '81 and colleagues are revealing climate conditions in the distant past.
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Campus played host to over 1100 people from 41 states—and countries as far away as India, Kenya, England, and Sweden—for dinners, panel discussions, readings, parties, and reunions with old friends.
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The psychology major and economics and neuroscience minor is bound for the most magical place on earth.
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The chemistry major’s senior thesis research, conducted with chemistry faculty members Lou Charkoudian’03 and Casey Londergan, was recently published in Nature Communications.
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The English major informed their analysis of comedy writer P.G. Wodehouse through an incorporation of techniques common to computer science.
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sorelle Friedler discusses how she and her collaborators will use a recent award from Mozilla to expand pedagogical efforts to emphasize the importance of ethics in computer science.
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This past December, Joan Gabel '88 was named president of the University of Minnesota, making her the first woman to be appointed to that post in the university's 167-year-history.
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The chemistry major’s thesis began as an attempt to apply the techniques that her advisor uses to study oil to honeybee health, but quickly became a lesson on the importance of flexibility in the lab.
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Personal experience with volunteer work became a valuable research tool for the sociology major.
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