Haverford Headlines

Community Care and Resources in Response to Israel-Gaza

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.

A women's basketball player drive to the hoop while wearing a white Haverford uniform.

News & Updates Haverford magazine

Game Changer: Inside the Athletics Action Plan

The new plan aims to elevate the field of play, and not just for student-athletes.

Faculty

COOL CLASSES: “Japanese Book Art and Printing”

This hands-on class explores Japanese book arts and a wide range of printmaking processes.

Summer Centered: Karlie Pollock ’22 Organizes Pediatric Concussion Data

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Students, Centers

The psychology major is doing neuropsychology research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia’s center.
Summer Centered: Anita Zhu ’22 and Kate Scully ’22 Research Mental Health History

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Students, Centers

The history and psychology majors are Scattergood Behavioral Health Reading and Writing Interns in Quaker and Special Collections this summer.
What They Learned: Jacob Coleman ’21

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Alumni

The French and Francophone Studies and German and German Studies double major combined his language studies with literary analysis in his thesis, which explored Colette’s fiction through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical theories.
What They Learned: June Hoang ’21

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Alumni, Science, Students

The chemistry major explored molecular and enzymatic diversity in bacteria that has major pharmaceutical implications.
Summer Centered: Lía Hermosillo Rojas ’22 Ties the Past to the Present

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Students, Centers

The English major is curating a 1960s folk music exhibit at the Woody Guthrie Center this summer.
What They Learned: Joseph Weisberg ’21

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Alumni

The history and Spanish double major reexamined popular perceptions of the past, close to and far from home.
Summer Centered: Taylor Johnson ‘24 Documents the Life of Ira De Augustine Reid

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Centers, Students

The prospective sociology major is working with a documentary team to produce a film on the life of one of Haverford’s most important figures.
Summer Centered: Scott Kaiser '22 Gets With the (Chemistry) Program

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Students, Centers

The chemistry major is an early member of Assistant Professor Clyde Daly's lab, where he is part of a team researching carbon dioxide in ionic liquids this summer.
What They Learned: Ellie Burns ’21

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Alumni

The history major and religion minor used her thesis to investigate the history of Chinese porcelain in the global economy and the Sino-Western exchange.
Fixing Our Broken Election System

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Alumni, magazine

Alumni advocates outline the problems—and the solutions that are gaining ground.
Ryan Lei Awarded National Science Foundation Grant

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Faculty, awards

The grant will support the assistant professor of psychology’s research on how children overlap race and gender in their representation of social categories.
What They Learned: Hannah Doll ’21

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Alumni, Science

The biology major studied zebrafish with an ap2s1 gene mutation who don’t respond to startling visual stimuli that mimic predators, but overreact to startling auditory stimuli.
Summer Centered: Julie Post ’22 Learns About and Advocates for Indigenous Rights

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Students; Centers

Sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, the anthropology major is working as an advocacy intern at Cultural Survival.
Where They’re Headed: Brett Hungar ’21

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Alumni

The math and linguistics double major is pursuing a Ph.D. in theoretical math at Ohio State University starting this fall.
What They Learned: Hasibe Caballero-Gomez ’21

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Alumni, Science

The chemistry major and environmental studies minor used her thesis to examine the rise in lead poisoning in Philadelphia, continuing her work in public health.