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JT Waldman holding a comic up to a group of students
Friday, April 29, 2016
Academics Students

COOL CLASSES: “Reading Comics and Religion”

"Reading Comics and Religion," which explores how representations of religion arise in comics and graphic novels, is co-taught by religion professors Ken Koltun-Fromm (Haverford) and Yvonne Chireau (Swarthmore), and features a weekly “making” lab with artist-in-residence JT Waldman.

Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.

JT Waldman (right) visits "Reading Comics and Religion". Photo by Caleb Eckert '17.

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Mauricio Arango, The Night of the Moon Has Many Hours
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Exhibit

Among the Unburied

Among the Unburied
Through April 29, 2016
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Whitehead Campus Center

Three artists-cum-storytellers invite us to consider a world of ghosts as firmly planted in the complex geopolitics and cultural schisms of Colombia, the Pacific Northwest, and Korea. Details »

Mauricio Arango, The Night of the Moon Has Many Hours, 2010. HD video, sound, 12-00. [production still].

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Lives That Speak banner hanging in front of Barclay Hall
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Alumni

Lives That Speak: Karan Shah '09

“The environment has been an issue that a lot of people at Haverford are passionate about. It’s a school that really cares about reducing our carbon footprint, about fighting global warming, about making the world a better place.” –Karan Shah '09, co-founder of Grow-Trees.com

Karan is the sixth in a series of individual vignettes directed by Ben Hickernell ’00 that take us further into the lives of Haverfordians profiled in the documentary “Lives That Speak”.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Centers

KINSC Scientific Imaging Contest

The KINSC Scientific Imaging Contest is an annual competition for student-submitted images from experiments or simulations that are scientifically intriguing as well as aesthetically pleasing. Judging is based on both the quality of the image and the explanation of the underlying science.

Chloe Wang '17, An optical micrograph of corroded stainless steel, taken at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 2015-16 First Place Winner.
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Elisabeth Smith '04
Friday, April 22, 2016
Alumni

Elisabeth Smith '04

Economics major Elisabeth Smith '04 became president and CEO of a machining and parts supplier to the aerospace and power-generation industries in 2014.

Read "Elisabeth Smith '04: Aerospace Industry CEO" in the Winter 2016 issue of Haverford magazine.

Smith is aiming to attract more women to the industry, she says, by showing them "we are a forward-thinking, technologically advanced company that uses million-dollar computers to cut metal". Photo: Chris Langer.

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Class at the Mutter Museum
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Academics Students

COOL CLASSES: “Science as Fiction”

Brook Henkel '05 teaches a "Science in Fiction" seminar in the Bi-Co German department. Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.

The class took a field trip to Philadelphia's Mutter Museum to allow the students to consider firsthand how wonder and fright contribute to scientific curiosity. Photo: Hina Fathima '15.

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