Chemistry major, biochemistry concentrator, and French and Francophone studies minor Gabriel Braun ’19 built his thesis on the work of nearly a generation of Haverford chemistry students. He had been working in Professor of Chemistry Karin Åkerfeldt’s lab since the summer after his sophomore year, and his thesis work was a continuation of past theses, including investigations conducted by at least five previous lab members.
Braun will spend next year at Lund University in Sweden, conducting research with his longtime collaborator Sara Linse under a Fulbright Research Award. "What They Learned" is a blog series exploring the thesis work of recent graduates.
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Deputy Director and Chief Curator of Brown University's Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Kevin P. Smith '81 and his colleagues analyze compounds from animal bones to reveal climate conditions in the distant past.
Read "Collecting Ancient Climate Data" from the Winter 2019 issue of Haverford Magazine.
Photo by Stephanie Alvarez Ewens.
“I’m immensely happy that I made the decision to study abroad at University College Dublin during the spring 2019 semester. I had the opportunity to experience a whole new educational system and national culture, make a new set of friends, and see parts of the world and hear viewpoints that I never would’ve gotten the chance to otherwise.” – Caroline Tien '20
Each year more than 130 Haverford students take advantage of the opportunity to study abroad.
The 2019 Study Abroad Photo Contest second-place winner in the Places category: Mason McNulty '19, "Italian Slopes," taken in La Thuile, Italy.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.