Since 2011 College Communications has produced a unique homepage each weekday to spotlight the rich diversity of Haverford's academic programming, extracurricular offerings, campus culture, and community members' accomplishments.
More than 25 years after first laying eyes on a cloth-draped stone statue in Japan, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies Hank Glassman publishes his book on Buddhist deity Jizō.
Read the Spring/Summer 2012 Faculty Profile in HAVERFORD magazine »
Each year, Fords look forward to the myriad traditional events such as the Collection speaker series; pinwheel day; the annual weekend throwdown at the end of the year called Haverfest; and, most importantly, Fall and Spring Plenary.
In a unique student-faculty collaboration, Professor Carol Solomon and Janet Yoon ’10 co-curated Mapping Identity, an exhibition featuring internationally-recognized artists whose works deal with issues of transnational identity, and the effects of displacement, exile, hybridity cosmopolitanism and the state of the in-between.
The Army Specialized Training Program (or A.S.T.P.) included basic engineering, foreign area and language studies, which were taught at Haverford in 1943 and 1944, as part of the program to add non-combatant service students during World War II.
Haverford’s student-faculty ratio is 8:1 and 97% of our full time faculty hold the highest degree in their field. With half the faculty living on campus, mentoring and commitment to excellence in teaching are cornerstones of the Haverford experience.
This 1885 map of Indian Territory bordered by Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas was commissioned by Dr. Charles Kirk, who served as superintendent of the Friends Indian Mission. Part of the Quaker Collection, the large cloth map measures 60 inches by 40 inches, and was hand-colored by Quaker artist Marcus Mote.
“I like that “student-athlete” is hyphenated and not two words because in my life the two cannot be separated. I do not think that I could sanely do one without the other. In both areas the goal is the same: pursuit of excellence.“—Darian Lunne ’09, women’s cross country and track
At Magill Library’s Special Collections, the focus is on making the Library’s extraordinary holdings—and the up-close glimpses of history they offer—widely available to faculty, students and scholars. The Fall 2010 issue of HAVERFORD magazine delves deeper into these accessible treasures.
“Fellow Geology major Kelsey Meisenhelder ’13 and I sat on top of a hot, steaming vent from an older lava lake on Hilo, Hawaii. We also got to see a sulfur dioxide cloud glow red at red out of the active Kilauea volcano.” – Rachel Davis ’13
Haverford students can choose from 31 majors, including Geology at Bryn Mawr College, thanks to our academic partnerships.
Currently, Founders Hall is a mixed-use building that houses the President’s office, Institutional Advancement, classrooms and faculty offices and the Great Hall, which hosts myriad social functions.
Missed yesterday’s photo? See what the green looked like “Then”.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.