William Zachs took a hands-on approach in his lecture, which was a part of Haverford College Libraries’ Texts and Technology series.
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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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Guided by wildlife experts, the work should wrap up by Labor Day. It aims to shape a more favorable habitat and mitigate flooding.
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Through a virtual internship this summer, King is conducting a principal component analysis of 3,783 guide dog puppies.
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This team-taught, case-studies-based course is the College’s introduction to the Tri-Co Environmental Studies Program.
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The research that the chemistry major conducted for her thesis contributed to a paper she co-authored with her advisor and other Fords that was recently published in the American Chemical Society journal Biochemistry.
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This philosophy course examines how we learn and gain experiential knowledge by investigating such questions as “Is experience the same as expertise, and is it required for the acquisition of expertise?”
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Students and faculty from the departments of astronomy, biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, geology, mathematics, physics, and psychology from the Tri-Co and beyond were invited to present posters and give talks about their summer research work.
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James Weissinger '06, associate director of the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and operations manager for VCAM, discusses the newest campus building and his hopes for its future.
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The Ruth Marshall Magill Professor of Music has written 13 new solo piano pieces inspired by the College's history and plans for its future, which he will premiere Oct. 28 at an event celebrating the recent conclusion of the successful capital campaign.
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Fords Against Boredom’s first off-campus event of the year was the annual trip to Linvilla Orchards for apple picking.
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A student-curated exhibit drawn from the archives of Phialdelphia’s Friend’s Asylum explores Quakerism and the “curability” of mental illness.
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The recent chemistry major, who is now pursuing a Ph.D. at Harvard University, is one of only 5 percent of applicants chosen for the selective DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship.
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Celebrating Haverford Lives That Speak...Hire a Ford...Fall (Faster) for the Ford: Ten Days, Ten Classes.
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This introduction to the methodologies used in the automated recognition and synthesis of human speech (used for such technologies as Siri and Amazon Echo) is cross-listed in the computer science and linguistics departments.
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Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science, which was published in April by W.W. Norton, outlines 12 common tactics that politicians regularly employ to butcher science, including “the Cherry-Pick,” “the Literal Nitpick,” and “the Oversimplification.”
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In this “Case Studies in Chemistry” course, students revisit the world about them from the perspective of chemistry, including food, cars, and fabrics.
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Thanks to the successful Lives That Speak campaign, the VCAM building now offers new opportunities for hands-on learning that build visual literacy across the liberal arts.
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