The CEO of Global Blood Therapeutics spoke to Haverford magazine about his company's experimental drug, GBT440, and its promise in treating people with sickle cell disease.
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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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Jonathan Miller '01 scores an Emmy for his work on the baseball documentary The Last Out.
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Pereda Figueroa spent the summer back home in Puerto Rico working with Editora Educación Emergente, a publishing company dedicated to releasing non-traditional works.
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After earning a growth and structure of cities degree, Bracker is working with nearby company Turner Construction as a pre-construction engineer.
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The history major was inspired by diaries she found in Quaker and Special Collections to craft a thesis on the transition to womanhood in mid-19th century Philadelphia Quaker communities.
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Just across the Delaware River, the sociology major shares a family practice he’s known for over a decade.
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The chemistry major and environmental science minor used machine learning to search for compounds that could most efficiently function in solar cells.
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The Spanish major is continuing his work in marketing with tech startup Hidrate Inc., which produces smart water bottles.
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The comparative literature major is in Los Angeles interning at the largest archive of gay and lesbian materials in the world.
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The astrophysics major simulated galaxy formations to test the efficacy of galaxy merger detection methods.
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Heidi Witmer ’02, founder of the LEAF Project, brings together diverse groups of teenagers to learn about nutrition, cooking, and farming—and the values of hard work, entrepreneurship, and sustainable living.
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The English major is going from reading literature to reading college applications in Haverford’s Office of Admission.
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The rising junior fine arts major spent her summer helping to produce the guide to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, among other things, at local arts nonprofit FringeArts.
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Inspired by an oceanside sunrise, the English major took on Virginia Woolf’s The Waves to reconcile introspection with natural surroundings.
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The college archivist and records manager recommends three titles that grapple with what America has become—politically, racially, even sartorially—and how it got that way.
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The computer science and mathematics double major is at the University of Maryland this summer, working on finding kidney donor-recipient matches using neural networks, as part of the National Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.
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