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Through funding from the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, prospective biology and environmental studies major Poppy Northing ’22 studied the biological nuances of an urban farming initiative at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center supported astrophysics major Sam Ditkovsky's summer research on isocurvature perturbations, cosmic disturbances caused by an alteration in the ratio of the particles that comprise the fabric of the universe. The rising senior did his work at the University of Toronto’s Dunlap Institute and on Haverford’s campus.

This summer anthropology major Jasmine Reed ’22 is delving into the archives as a research assistant for the BlackQuakerProject with renowned scholar Harold D. Weaver '56 (left).

Supported by the Center for Career and Professional Advising’s Liberal Arts in the Workplace Fund, political science major Isabel Clements '21 is interning at Physicians for Human Rights, a non-governmental organization of health professionals dedicated to defending human rights across the globe.

Physics major Shufan Xia '21 is studying peacock courtship displays by examining the scientific intricacies of their feathers. The work is being pioneered by Professor Suzanne Amador Kane.

For Matthew Ridley '19, a summer internship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is another notch in his belt of archival experience. Funded by the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, the history major is working in the museum’s conservation department through August.

Anthropology major Jessica Lopez ’21 is doing a Whitehead Internship with real estate group Shift Capital to learn how a for-profit real estate group can foreground its positive social impact.

Led by professors Anne Preston and Anita Isaacs, a team of Haverford students is working to combat misinformation about immigration and immigrants by collecting and sharing personal stories from migrants in Mexico about their immigration and deportation experiences.

On her Hurford Center-sponsored internship, religion major Allison Wise ’20 is working with images and illustrations at the Library Company of Philadelphia to supplement one of the Philadelphia area’s canonical records.

Classics major Claire Blood-Cheney ’20, who minors in psychology and international studies, is spending the summer at StartX, a Stanford University-affiliated nonprofit that pools resources and funding from its community of businesses to support emergent startups.