Haverford Headlines

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New Bi-Co Program Introduces Community College Students to a Liberal Arts Education

The weeklong immersion program, open to any current community college student, will welcome students to Haverford and Bryn Mawr campuses in June.

Faculty

Office Hour: Jonathan Wilson

The professor of environmental studies gives us a tour of his office.

Dali Pomfret is pictured on a baseball field. He leans against a chainlink fence while an out of focus scoreboard sits in the background.

Students Athletics

Major League Mindset

Dali Pomfret '25 started out wanting to play professional baseball. After an eye-opening internship, he’s now got his mind set on an even loftier goal.

Ming-Fui Chai '15 Presents at the World Congress of Philosophy

Chai, who will spend his junior year abroad at Oxford University, presented a paper on John Locke's doctrine of personal identity, and got to meet some of the top philosophers in the world.
Jenny Maryasis '04: "One of The Top 100 People in Hollywood You Need to Know"

The agent, who reps Girls' Lena Dunham among others, was named to Fade In's Top 100 list, and was also recently on Glamour's "Top 35 Under 35 In Hollywood" list and among Variety's <a href="http://variety.com/2013/film/news/the-young-and-the-buzzworthy-superagen... of Tomorrow</a>.
Faculty Profile: Physicist Peter Love

Associate Professor of Physics Peter Love not only trains future scientists in the intricacies of quantum mechanics, he helps non-science majors gain a concept of the field as well.
Historian Lucy Barber '86 in the Washington Post

The author of Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition talks about how the March on Washington, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week, shaped the Mall.
Stephen Spaulding '05 on Politico

Staff counsel for Common Cause, Spaulding writes an opinion piece about the filibuster rule "degrades [the Senate's] fine history of debate, consensus and action."
Asa Hopkins '01 in The Bridge

Vermont's director of energy policy and planning assesses the state's near- and long-term energy challenges for Montpelier's free, independent, local newspaper.
Hear Tracey Hucks on OPB

The professor of religion talks to the Oregon public broadcaster about Yoruba as an "ancient spiritual heritage" for African Americans.
Roads Taken and Not Taken: Katie Quirk '98

A disappointing study abroad experience leads to a life-changing sojourn in Africa that turns a Tanzanian girl into family.
Writing Program Fellow Paul Farber talks to CNN about the 1963 March on Washington

Paul Farber, a Writing Program Fellow and American Studies scholar, is a contributing author of a new book that documents the historic 1963 March on Washington through the images of photographer Leonard Freed.
Aaron Bernstein '95 in The New York Times

The Facebook employee is part of a team trying to deliver free or cheap ways to use the Internet to people who lack access.
The Unconventional Cop

Andy Solberg '78 is a D.C. police commander with a master's in philosophy who would rather be out on the street than behind a desk, thinks police work can be informed by Aristotle's ethics, and believes:“We arrest way too many people, and we shouldn't.”
Summer Internships 2013: Cataloguing Jewish History

With support from Haverford's Hurford Center, Rilka Spieler '14 worked as an intern in the registration department of the National Museum of American History.
Christopher Yung '86 on CCTV

The senior research fellow at the Institute of National Strategic Studies discusses Chinese-U.S. military relations.
Paul Bisceglio '09 Writes for the Atlantic

The D.C.-based freelancer wrote a piece about how social media changes the way we approach death.
Andrew Lanham '10 in The Los Angeles Review of Books

The current Rhodes Scholar wrote an essay, "Walter White's Heart of Darkness," to coincide with the return of AMC's Breaking Bad.