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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.

John R. Coleman, Haverford’s ninth president, published his book Blue Collar Journal in 1974 and caused a sensation. The book was based on his experiences going incognito on a “secret” sabbatical, during which he hauled trash in a small town in Maryland, made sandwiches in a Boston restaurant, and dug sewer lines in Atlanta.

“History Lesson” is a regular series in Haverford magazine.

With funding from the Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities, Emma Lumeij ’16 is researching Edison's films and photographs from around 1900 at the Library of Congress for her upcoming English thesis.

HaverFarm is the name for both the student-run club and the plots of land where food is grown: one behind HCA’s apartment 19, a smaller one behind HCA 22, and the third, larger space behind the facilities and maintenance building. It was born out of an environmental studies senior capstone class project in 2013, and, since then, has grown to include the construction of a new greenhouse and the hiring of an inaugural farm fellow.

With funding from the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, May Plumb ’16 is working with Assistant Professor Brook Lillehaugen to preserve and educate people about Colonial Valley Zapotec, a native language of Mexico’s Southern region.

At Haverford, athletics can be big in the classroom and on the field. As The New York Times reports, many seniors choose to focus their thesis project on sports, and a large number of grads work in Major League Baseball.

Where They’re Headed

Robin Banerji ’15 is starting a career in economic analysis at Moody’s Analytics.

“Over my four years, I’ve found that my writing has evolved to be more organized, clearer, and limited to the data and analysis that my professors and peers have found convincing.”

Part of the Where They’re Headed series in the Haverblog.

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.

Established nearly 80 years ago by the Campus Club, the 2.2-mile Nature Trail encircling Haverford College’s campus provides a shady path for dog walkers, joggers and runners.

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.