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Saturday afternoon of Family & Friends Weekend will focus on Haverford alumni who are prominent leaders in business, as we celebrate Howard W. Lutnick ’83 and his 21 years of service on Haverford’s Board, and we honor the legacy of the late John C. Whitehead ’43.

The keynote event features Adi Ignatius '81, editor in chief of Harvard Business Review, who will interview Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners. Get the full schedule of events.

“Studying abroad was educational in more ways than I ever thought it could be. I experienced a new culture and a new language, and gained valuable new perspectives.” – Rachel Grunden ’16

Each year more than 130 Haverford students take advantage of the opportunity to study abroad.

Much of Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sorelle Friedler’s research takes place in a heady realm known as “high-dimensional space”—used to model data sets with many attributes—where, instead of the two or three dimensions most of us are familiar with, there can be 250 or even 1,000 dimensions.

Read Office Hour in the Spring/Summer 2015 issue of Haverford Magazine.

Jonathan Wilson, assistant professor of biology and environmental studies, recently published a paper outlining an extensive evolutionary history of silica biomineralization—the absorption of silica from soil—in plants, proving that this process is much older than previously thought.

Lives That Speak: The Campaign for Haverford

An anonymous graduate has made a seven-figure gift for financial aid, sustainability, and diversity. The gift will support operational needs, new endowed scholarships and a presidential discretionary fund for strategic initiatives.

As the men's ultimate team at Haverford prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary this weekend, we look back at the history of the club sport that defined so many Fords' college experience. 

A gallery of historic photos of the team, courtesy of Matt Lowenthal '12, appears on the Haverblog.

The Wall in Our Heads: American Artists and the Berlin Wall
Opens Friday, October 23, 2015
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Whitehead Campus Center

Features critical American artistic perspectives of the Berlin Wall from 1961 through the present, including artworks that confront social boundaries in the United States as well as the complex historical crossroads of Berlin. Curated by Paul M. Farber, Postdoctoral Writing Fellow. Details »

Haverford College has forged innovative partnerships with some of the world’s top academic institutions to offer students additional opportunities for graduate study.

Our degree partnership programs allow students to pursue an accelerated course of study toward a master’s degree.

Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Danielle Lillehaugen recently returned to campus from an exciting treasure hunt for Zapotec texts during a three-week research trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. Lillehaugen was on the lookout for manuscripts to add to the growing collection in the Ticha Project—a digital publication of Colonial Zapotec resources.

Testimonies in Art & Action: Igniting Pacifism in the Face of Total War
Through December 11, 2015
Sharpless Gallery, Magill Library

This exhibition juxtaposes primary source materials from the Quaker relief work in Spain, much of which is from Haverford’s own Quaker & Special Collections, with student digital humanities projects that explore the peace testimonies embedded in the literature and art from the interwar period. Details »