In the Collection – Birds of America

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In the Collection

John James Audubon’s The Birds of America: From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories is considered an artistic and scientific masterpiece. In addition to two first-edition sets produced between 1839 and 1844, the College possesses a pen-and-ink sketch of a Red-breasted Snipe with field notes in Audubon’s hand.

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Where They’re Headed: Fangyu Xiong ’15

Where They’re Headed

Fangyu Xiong ’15 is starting work at Facebook’s headquarters in August as a software development engineer.

“Haverford has a well-rounded education, rather than [just] being career oriented,” he says. “I actually think that I [spent] more time playing music than coding!”

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

Xiong credits his liberal arts education with not only teaching him how to code but how to strive to use that skill to help people.
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