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  • Haverford College alumnus Michael B. Kim '85, through his foundation, the MBK Educational Foundation, has pledged $7.5 million toward construction of a new dormitory that will be sited adjacent to, and constructed in tandem with, another new dorm that received separate funding a year ago.
  • Samuel Freeman '97 has donated an electric truck to the College for use by Facilities Management and Arboretum staff members. The truck serves as an environmentally conscious alternative to gas-powered golf carts.
  • After serving as Hurford Humanities Center-sponsored interns at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this summer, Janet Yoon '10 and Andreea Bailuc '11 are pursuing exciting new opportunities in the art world.
  • This year, five members of the class of 2010 have been selected as 2010-11 Philly Fellows, and are participating in a year-long service program founded by two Haverford alumni.
  • Actor and Haverford alum Daniel Dae Kim '90 ("Lost") makes an appearance in our new Study Away blog, "Postcards from Abroad".

  • Find out the latest news on the Annual Fund, ways for alumni and parents to stay connected to the College, and read about upcoming events.
  • Haverford congratulates the 2010 Volunteer Award winners for their sustained support to the College. Awards will be presented during Volunteer Leadership Weekend on October 1st.
  • Jamison is the featured composer for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra's Made in Vermont Festival tour. The orchestra will perform his composition "It is Time," which was inspired by a poem written by German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

  • The Tarrytown, New York, creator of books for kids (<em>Boring, Who is Melvin Bubble?</em> ) has just published a new installment in his <em>Bad Kitty</em> series, titled <em>Bad Kitty Vs. Uncle Murray.</em>

  • Associate Dean Phil Bean talks about his new book, The Urban Colonists: Italian American Identity and Politics in Utica, New York
  • Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances and publications.
  • Senior Reilly Costigan-Humes is spending the academic year at St. Petersburg University courtesy of the David L. Boren Scholarship, which provides funding for study in countries critical to U.S. security. Costigan-Humes is the first Haverford student to receive this scholarship.
  • Chris Goutman '73, executive producer of the long-running soap opera "As the World Turns," reflects on the show's cancellation and the decline of soaps in general in TIME Magazine.

  • Visit Special Collections today to view several Korans from the collections or join Mark Kolko-Rivera '78's grassroots "Christians Reading the Koran" movement.
  • A medical pioneer, Nobel invented the Medical Emergency Crash Cart while he was a surgical resident in Philadelphia in 1965. A prototype of the cart recently became part of the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

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