Various feathers featuring intricate patterns

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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.

One of Suzanne Amador Kane's ongoing projects uses mathematics to model pattern formation on feathers like these. Photo: Patrick Montero.

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Headshots of the five Fulbright winners
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
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Haverford College Named Top Fulbright Producer

Five Fords earned Fulbrights for the 2018–2019 year, putting the College in the company of fewer than 50 undergraduate liberal arts institutions in the country with the highest number of student grants.

"We are once again absolutely thrilled to see and celebrate our students' extraordinary success in securing Fulbright Awards, which constitute a profound recognition of their extraordinary commitment to enacting ideals of global citizenship." — President Kim Benston

The 2018–2019 cohort of Haverford Fulbright recipients: (clockwise from top center) Julian Schneider '17, Brett Pogostin '18, George O'Hara '18, Anna Russell '14, and Charles Hale '17. Photos by Dex Coen Gilbert '21, Patrick Montero, and Sarah Bowman.

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Next Friday, February 22, 2019
Rosales talking o a crowd in a room bathed in blue light
Friday, February 22, 2019
Exhibit

Guadalupe Rosales: Legends Never Die, A Collective Memory

Through March 8, 2019
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery

Since 2015, artist Guadalupe Rosales has been building an archive of vernacular photographs and ephemera connected to Latinx culture in Los Angeles. Her projects exist as both archives of physical objects and crowd-sourced digital archives, assembled on her widely followed Instagram accounts. Details » 

Guadalupe Rosales leads a talk during the opening reception for Guadalupe Rosales: Legends Never Die in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. 

Photo: Cole Sansom '19

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