About a year after Sept. 11, 2001, Professor of Astronomy Bruce Partridge was meeting with close friend and Haverford alumnus Jim Kinsella ‘82 in London. Both bemoaned the poor relations between the Islamic and Western worlds—particularly the United States—and wondered what Haverford might do to help counteract the growing hostilities. They came up with the idea of a scholarship that would bring Islamic students to Haverford, where they would see a different, more positive side of America.
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Legendary track and field coach Tom Donnelly and alternative death care pioneer Katrina Spade ’99 will receive honorary degrees at Commencement.
Thanks for Nothing by Professor and Chair of Sociology Matthew McKeever draws on 40 years of data to understand why the financial outlook for single mothers remains stagnant.
A music education teacher and composer, Grace Coberly '21, writes music for people. "I like relating to other people through music," they say.
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“Four Printmakers” will exhibit their works in Haverford's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Oct. 27-Nov. 22, 2006. The exhibit will be curated by painter and printmaker Hee Sook Kim, assistant professor of fine arts. -
Gilbert F. White, known worldwide as the "father of floodplain management" and one of the most distinguished and internationally recognized faculty members at the University of Colorado at Boulder, died on Oct. 5 at his home in Boulder. He was 94. -
Allyn Gaestel '09 shares travels in Taiwan.
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Let's drop the modesty right from the start. Peter Hochman '75 says the food in his restaurant, the inventive and funky Alberta Street Oyster Bar & Grill, in Portland, Ore., is better than sex.
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Tom King, Director of Safety and Security, ensures law and order on Haverford's campus.
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Out of the 15,000 singers participating in this year's MNBA America Collegiate Barbershop Quartet Contest in Indianapolis, Ind., only one of them performed while wearing a banana costume. He was from Haverford College.
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This fall, the Haverford community discovered something different—actually, several somethings—about the familiar eatery known as the Coop. During the summer, Facilities Management and the Coop staff were hard at work renovating and updating the popular 13-year-old Campus Center hangout. -
The Washington Monthly College Rankings: Liberal Arts Colleges
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We are pleased to announce that the members of the Alumni Association Executive Awards Committee have selected the alumni listed below to receive alumni awards during Volunteer Weekend, Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 2006. The awards will be presented on Friday evening at the Volunteer Dinner with President Tom Tritton and the Board of Managers in Founders Great Hall.
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After Hurricane Katrina, Lane Savadove '89's theater company, EgoPo, relocated to Philadelphia.
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For some, gardening is a quiet hobby; for Abby Rosenheck '99, however, urban agriculture has become a force for social change. Rosenheck is co-founder and executive director of Urban Sprouts, a garden-based education non-profit operating in four San Francisco schools. Committed to educating middle and high school students in San Francisco's underserved areas, the program hopes to bolster academic performance, health and nutrition, ecoliteracy, and youth development.
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Secrets of the underground production of German V-1 and V-2 rockets, the dark and foreboding beginning of the modern space age, will be shown in a display of photographs by Philadelphia-based photographer Alvin Gilens at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Sept. 15-Oct. 20. An opening reception will be held Friday, Sept. 15, from 5-7 p.m. at the Gallery. -
When volunteers came to Burundi in 2002 to promote a variation of the United States“Alternatives to Violence Project” (AVP), they sought a translation for trauma in the official language of Kirundi.
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Indradeep Ghosh, Casey Londergan, Ana Lopez-Sanchez, Peter Love, Bret Mulligan, and Jennifer Pals join Haverford's faculty.
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