Photo: Caleb Eckert '17
Haverford attracts intellectually curious, independent learners who value honesty, collaboration, and above all, new ways of seeing and improving the world.
As you perform real-world research and immerse yourself in hands-on learning, you'll work side-by-side with professors who are at the top of their fields.
Our mascot—the Black Squirrel—has a genetic adaptation that gives it a bold, black coat. Join our distinctive community and stand out from the pack with your fellow Haverfordians.
Haverford has more than 140 groups that publish magazines, host symposia, sing a cappella, discuss religion and spirituality, stay politically active, maintain a system of student self-government, dance, demonstrate, and create.
The Mainliners perform in Stokes Auditorium for their 2018 Fall Semester Show. Photo by Ruiming Li '22
The varied research interests of Professor of Physics and Astronomy Suzanne Amador Kane delve into soft condensed matter physics and statistical physics, but it is her work in biological physics—which uses the tools of physics to better understand living organisms—that has attracted widespread attention in recent years.
Read Office Hour in the Fall 2018 issue of Haverford Magazine.
Suzanne Amador Kane's office in the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center includes a standing treadmill desk. Photo: Patrick Montero.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.