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After graduation, more than 12,000 alumni maintain their connections through regional events, such as the first Multicultural Alumni Action Group summer boat party.
Photo by Patrick Montero.
Tosin Alliyu ’18 spent her summer studying bias in computer-generated decisions in her KINSC-sponsored research internship with Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sorelle Friedler.
Photo by Hina Fathima ‘15.
Alison Love ’18 and Safiyah Riddle ’18 encouraged food justice both in the fields and the classroom this summer. With funding from the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, they worked for Weavers Way Community Programs near Philadelphia.
Alison Love ’18 and Safiyah Riddle ’18 at Weaver's Way. Photo: Patrick Montero
With funding from the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, Katie Tsai '16 and Emily Winesett '16 worked for Assistant Professor of Chemistry Lou Charkoudian '03. Their projects focused on how fungi and bacteria create natural antibiotics and how these processes can be replicated.
Emily Winesett '16, Grace Thiele '17, and Katie Tsai '16 in the lab. Photo: Hina Fathima '15
With funding from the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Laura Eckstein '16 spent her summer attempting to map Jewish networks along the Mississippi River Delta region prior to the Civil War.
Eckstein at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Department of Music at Haverford offers a creative approach to music theory, a curriculum in music history that deals with music in the social context and embraces world music and jazz, while our applied music program and ensembles provide students with opportunities for performances and tours.
With funding from the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, Abby Fullem ’16 is spending her summer collecting soil samples at Unionville Serpentine Barrens for her geology thesis research.
History and chemistry double-major Max Findley ’15, the former co-captain of Haverford’s fencing team, took some time to talk to Haverford magazine about the venerable sport of fencing and why it has held him in thrall since elementary school.
Read the “Anatomy of an Athlete” in the Spring/Summer 2015 issue of Haverford Magazine.
With funding from the Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities, Emma Lumeij ’16 is researching Edison’s films and photographs circa 1900 at the Library of Congress for her upcoming English thesis.
English and creative writing professor Asali Solomon draws on her own family’s story for her acclaimed debut novel Disgruntled, which explores race and class, and “the mythologies of childhood.”
Read the feature article in the Spring/Summer 2015 issue of Haverford Magazine.
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