Then & Now: Microscopes Now

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Then & Now: Microscopes

A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation brought several new high-tech instruments to campus. Among them is this confocal microscope, which employs a laser beam to produce high-quality images.

Missed yesterday’s photo? See microscopes back "Then".

Shanaye Jeffers, Faraz Sohail and Kaitlyn Shank, all Class of 2012, in their Bio300 class, aka "Super Lab."

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Then & Now: Microscopes

Then & Now: Microscopes

Exactly when Haverford got its first microscope no one knows, but by the mid-1880s scientific labs were crowding out space in Founders once reserved for natural history museum specimens.

Come back tomorrow to see “Now”.

In 1919, the opening of Sharpless Hall brought what were then state of the art science facilities to the College, illustrated in this circa 1925 photo from the College Archives titled "Students at their microscopes."
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Next Sunday, December 11, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Student Garden

The Haverford Garden Initiative is a student organization with a mission to create food gardens and similar green spaces on campus for the benefit and use of the Haverford community. To celebrate the most recent harvest, Ehaus used the veggies in their weekly Thursday community dinner.

December 5th, Isaac Ellman '12 and Ruben Land '12 picked lettuce in the student garden during the final harvest of the season.
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