Each year Haverford College awards four honorary degrees to men and women who have distinguished themselves in letters, the sciences, or the arts. Many recipients are noted for their contributions to the overall betterment of humankind and/or Haverford College.
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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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Alumni of Color Weekend 2007 includes movies, discussions, and interactive, community-building workshops.
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Chris Goutman '73 takes over as director for "As the World Turns."
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Haverford junior track athletes Emma Lo and Joe Awantang have been named 2007 Arthur Ashe Sports Scholars in track & field.
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On Friday, Feb. 23, Rebecca Morgan '10 was one of several people honored for her contributions to a mural at the Joint Replacement Center of the Christiana Medical Center in Wilmington, Del.
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Bill Herbst, John Monroe Van Vleck Professor of Astronomy and chair of the Astronomy Department at Wesleyan University, has received a $330,990 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will benefit Wesleyan and the seven other elite liberal arts member institutions in the Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium (KNAC), one of which is Haverford.
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Listen to Dean Steve Watter discuss gender blind dorms on NPR.
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Jonathan Fein '72 explores the value of objects in a post-9/11 world through his documentary, "Objects and Memory."
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Paintings by Associate Professor of Fine Arts Ying Li are featured in“Sacred Land: Paintings from Where St. Francis Lived,” running April 6-May 6 in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery.
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The Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges—under the direction of Associate Professor of Music Thomas Lloyd—are a well-traveled group; they've been to Poland, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. This year, they participated in their fifth international inter-cultural exchange during winter break, traveling to Ghana Jan. 13-23 for a series of performances with local Ghanaian choirs.
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James House becomes a new and interactive space dedicated to student artists.
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This spring, the Committee for Environmental Responsibility's "Community Empowerment through the Environment" Conference will be received by a receptive audience after this year's environmental discourse on campus.
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Joya Manasseh '10 entered Haverford as a guest student after fleeing the Shia War in Lebanon.
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The unsung history of landscape painting in Pennsylvania is revealed in a new exhibition at Haverford's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery.“The Pennsylvania Landscape: Colonial to Contemporary,” running March 2 – April 1, 2007, is the first exhibition to bring together depictions of the Keystone State from first European settlement to the present day.
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Jessica McHugh '99 shares her travels of twelve different countries on four continents.
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