Writing Program

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The Writing Program administers the first-year writing seminars which encourage students to become rigorous thinkers and writers who can construct arguments that matter, and supports a Writing Center where specially-trained peer tutors work with fellow students.

Postdoctoral Writing Fellow Paul Farber helped create the public art and urban research project Monument Lab at Philadelphia's City Hall. Photo: Brad Larrison

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Where They’re Headed: Henri Drake ’15

Where They’re Headed

Henri Drake ’15, who graduated with honors in mathematics, is working as a research specialist at Jorge Sarmiento’s oceanography laboratory at Princeton University for a year.

Part of the Where They’re Headed series in the Haverblog.

While at Haverford Drake learned about the enhanced effects of CO2 on salt marshes, and studied the relationship of Zen Buddhist poets with the environmental activism of the Beat generation.
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