With funding from the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, Tom Sternberg ’17 is researching the artistic contexts of plays, writing blog posts, and supporting the day-to-day operations of the Pig Iron Theater Company by calculating ticket sales and digitizing archives.

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.

The Fine Arts at Haverford emphasize the individual. Studio classes are small and all students—from beginners to declared majors—receive individual, focused instruction, and are encouraged to develop the physical and critical skills necessary to create art.

The KINSC Scientific Imaging Contest is an annual contest 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.

In the Collection

Artist and illustrator Maxfield Parrish, Class of 1892, already showed great promise while a student here, as evidenced by his fabulously illustrated chemistry notebook. The notebook is part of the Maxfield Parrish Collection, which includes letters, manuscripts, original sketches and drawings, and other items.

The John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities supports students across a range of internships, faculty assistantships, and research projects. Follow the students throughout the summer on the Decentered blog.

Where They’re Headed

Sarah Eppler-Epstein ’15 is a research assistant at the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. “Haverford prepared me well for this opportunity,” says Eppler-Epstein. “In my Peace, Justice, and Human Rights concentration, I studied incarceration and criminal justice in the United States. In my political science major, I learned about public policy and learned how to conduct social science research.”

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

The honeybee hives, which were installed in May in the Retention Pond behind HaverFarm, were the idea of the Haverford’s BeeKeeping Club, which was formed by Alanna Matteson ’15 and Dana Ducombe ‘17 earlier this year.

With its inception, the Club joins a larger national effort that’s working to restore the population of honeybees in the country.

Haverford’s small size makes possible a highly personalized, hands-on educational experience. Professors work side-by-side with students to do high-level research while also developing analytical thinking and pushing the boundaries of each discipline.

In the Collection

John James Audubon’s The Birds of America: From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories is considered an artistic and scientific masterpiece. In addition to two first-edition sets produced between 1839 and 1844, the College possesses a pen-and-ink sketch of a Red-breasted Snipe with field notes in Audubon’s hand.