Haverford Headlines

Scott Peltzer poses for a portrait in the shop at Brooklyn Woods. He is surrounded by numerous woodworking tools.

Building Futures

Through Brooklyn Woods, Scott Peltzer ’82 teaches job hunters a lost art and self-sustaining skills for life.

Education as Liberation

Philadelphia’s Freedom Side School imagines future intersections between education and anti-carceral movements with a Haverford first-year writing seminar.

Students

Changing Stigmatized Views of Menstruation in Nepal

For the past four years, Kripa Khatiwada '26 has been working with an eco-friendly feminine hygiene products company and supporting the women of her home country.

Lucy Barber '86 on CSPAN

The historian, who was also interviewed in the <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/news/files/magazine/HAVERFORD-Spring-2009.pdf">... 2009 issue</a> of Haverford magazine, discussed her 2003 book Marches on Washington.
Professor's Pain Research Cited

An article in Sports Illustrated about athletes and pain describes an experiment conducted by Professor of Psychology Wendy Sternberg.
Haverford Conversation: Steven C. Beschloss '80

Beschloss's new book, Adrift: Charting Our Course Back to a Great Nation, co-authored with William C. Harris, aims to inspire a national dialogue about where we're headed.
Studying Transitional Justice in Guatemala

Jake Weisenthal and Daniel Salem (both '13) worked with Professor Anita Isaacs as summer research assistants and accompanied her on a trip to Guatemala.
Summer 2011 Faculty Updates

Highlighting the faculty's professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances and publications.
Digital Music Project Gets NEH Funding

Music Professor Richard Freedman has received a $150,000 grant for an innovative project focused on Renaissance music.
A Poet's Work

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Thomas Devaney is quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer article about new U.S. poet laureate Philip Levine.
Alumni Travel: Venice, its Sea Empire & the Medieval World

A Voyage Exploring Seminal Sites form Venice to Cyprus Featuring Chamber Music Concerts of the Period, May 5-17, 2012
Joanne V. Creighton, Ph.D., Named Interim President

Served as President of Mount Holyoke College, 1996-2010, previously Interim President of Wesleyan University.
Iruka Okeke Plays Host to Nigerian Microbiology Fellow

Tunde Odetoyin, a PhD student at Obafemi Awolowo University, came to Haverford to study antimicrobial resistance.
Organic Chemistry at Yale

Thanks to a summer grant from the Koshland Integrated Natural Science Center, Zef Konst '12 is conducting organic chemistry research at Yale University.
Studying the Stars

Miriam Fuchs '13 is doing research on binary stars at Boston University, where she is working under astronomer Andrew West '99.
Harper Hubbeling '11 Published in Nature Immunology

The recent graduate's thesis work led to co-authoring a paper with Professor Jenni Punt and outside collaborators.
Solar Flares: A Summer at Harvard

Andrew Sturner '12 is participating in solar flare research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics this summer under the auspices of the KINSC.
Quaker Bouncers Idea Goes National

Jeff Millman '07 and SOTEER, an on-campus alcohol intervention program he has launched, are spotlighted in an article in Inside Higher Ed magazine. Millman co-founded Haverford's Quaker Bouncers and created The Green Team, a similar student-run party-monitoring program, at Dartmouth, where he is an M.B.A. candidate.