Along with teaching courses in calculus, geometry, and linear algebra, Senior Lecturer of Mathematics and Statistics Jeff Tecosky-Feldman directs the Chesick Summer Institute, a vital part of the Chesick Scholars Program, a four-year academic mentoring and leadership program for under-represented, under-resourced, or first-generation Haverford students that includes a residential summer program.
Read Office Hour in the Spring 2018 issue of Haverford Magazine.
Tecosky-Feldman's interest in under-represented groups in science has also led him to become the director of MSP (formerly known as the Multicultural Scholars Program). Five years ago, he worked with Dean Michael Martinez to launch Horizons and also finds time to help run the annual Yiddish Culture Festival on campus. Photo: Patrick Montero
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When director Ava DuVernay went looking for a science advisor for the new Disney film adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 science fiction/fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time, she found the perfect candidate in Stephon Alexander ’93, a professor of physics at Brown University.
Read "Tell Us More" in the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Haverford magazine.
Photo: Patrick Montero
Jessica Koshinski ’18, a chemistry major with a biochemistry concentration, synthesized organic molecules to identify therapeutic treatments for pancreatic cancers.
"What They Learned" is a blog series exploring the thesis work of recent graduates. Photo: Dr. Lance Liotta Laboratory
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