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Graduates throw caps in the air
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Commencement 2019

Congratulations, Class of 2019!

Commencement is Saturday, May 18, at 10:00 a.m. in the Alumni Field House. Tickets are not required, nor is there a limit to the number of guests graduates may invite.

The Commencement Program is available for download in English, Spanish, and Mandarin.

Use #haverford19 to share your Commencement excitement with us on Twitter and Instagram! Photo: Dan Z. Johnson

Composite of students' talking about their thesis projects
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Senior Thesis

The senior thesis represents the culmination of a Haverford student’s academic experience, and is one of the most important and rewarding ways that Haverford realizes its educational mission. It is an opportunity to do original research at levels usually reserved for graduate students, in partnership with faculty mentors. Haverford College is one of a very few institutions in the country that includes a senior thesis project as part of every student’s academic program.

"Two-Minute Thesis" is a video series produced by the Haverford College Libraries. Haverford senior thesis writers briefly discuss their theses, the research process, and share the ups and downs of their thesis-writing experience. Watch now»

A Streptomyces coelicolor spore grown on a semi-solid agar plate
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

KINSC Scientific Imaging Contest

The KINSC Scientific Imaging Contest is an annual competition 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.

Renata DiDonato '19 won third place in the 2019 contest for "A Streptomyces coelicolor spore grown on a semi-solid agar plate."

A woman sits at a desk
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Office Hour – Ariana Huberman

Originally from Argentina, Associate Professor of Spanish and Spanish Department Chair Ariana Huberman joined the Haverford faculty in 2010. Since then, she has taught every level of the College’s Spanish-language courses, along with such classes as “Writing the Nation: Perceptions of Violence in Latin American Literature,” and “Spanish American Colonial Writings.”

Read Office Hour in the Winter 2019 issue of Haverford Magazine.

 Ariana Huberman's office in Hall building includes art, photos of her family, and copies of her book Gauchos and Foreigners: Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside. Photo: Patrick Montero.

Hundreds of freshly harvested tomatoes grown on campus
Monday, May 13, 2019

Sustainability

As a core institutional principle, sustainability animates ​Haverford's broad mission of stewarding ​its​ financial, ethical, and curricular endowments in the interest of educating principled global citizens while safeguarding intergenerational equity as a perpetual institution.

The College, which pledged to devote at least 20% of its dining budget to local, ethically sourced food (like these tomatoes grown on campus at the Haverfarm) by 2020 following a 2016 Plenary resolution, surpassed that ambition 10 months ahead of schedule. Photo: Patrick Montero.

KINSC photo contest
Friday, May 10, 2019

KINSC Scientific Imaging Contest

The KINSC Scientific Imaging Contest is an annual competition 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.

Daniel Feshbach '20 won first place with a heat map depicting paths for a circular robot, which moves at an unreliable angle until encountering a wall.

“Ethical Struggles in Catastrophic Times: Quakers’ Responses to the Holocaust”
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

COOL CLASSES: “Ethical Struggles in Catastrophic Times: Quakers’ Responses to the Holocaust”

“Ethical Struggles in Catastrophic Times: Quakers’ Responses to the Holocaust”

This religion course is an examination of some of the remarkable—and highly controversial—activities in which Quakers engaged as they tried to provide assistance to Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis.

Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.

Students in Professor David Harrington Watt's class went to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. to see the exhibit on American reactions and responses to the Holocaust. Photo by Jacob Gorenburg '22. See what other courses the Department of Religion is offering this semester.

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