Assistant Professor of Chemistry Lou Charkoudian '03 has lots of books in her office, but two have particular significance: the chemistry textbooks she used when she was a Haverford student in the organic chemistry classes of professors Karin Åkerfeldt and Fran Blase, who are now Charkoudian’s colleagues.
Read Office Hour in the Spring/Summer 2017 issue of Haverford Magazine.
Charkoudian, who has a Ph.D. from Duke University, describes her research and teaching interests as lying “at the intersection of organic chemistry and biology.” Photo: Patrick Montero.
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History major and Bryn Mawr film studies minor Gus Helbock '17 is moving to Los Angeles to begin his career in film production as a freelance production assistant.
"Where They're Headed" is a blog series detailing the post-graduation plans of the Class of 2017.
The John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities (HCAH) supports the intellectual and artistic ambitions of faculty, students, and staff. They foster collaboration, experimentation, and critical thought through seminars, symposia, research and curricular support, working and reading groups, arts and performance residencies, exhibitions and visual culture programming.
The art installation DEARBED, sponsored by the HCAH through the E. Clyde Lutton 1966 Memorial Fund and created by Yoshifumi Nomura '18, transformed Founders Great Hall in April, 2017. Photo: Caleb Eckert '17.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.