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.
Our campus has 200 acres of award-winning architecture and landscaping, more than 50 academic, athletic and residential buildings, and a nationally recognized arboretum with 400 species of trees and shrubs, a 3.5-acre duck pond, gardens, and wooded areas.
Founders Hall at night. Photo: Patrick Montero.
Haverford fields 23 varsity teams, and club and intramural options include badminton, crew, golf, soccer, Ultimate, volleyball, and rugby.
53% of our students are on varsity or club teams.
Members of the varsity Men’s Cross Country team. Photo: Michael Branscom.
Through March 9, 2018
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
Drawing on the photographic archives of the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn's exhibition turns the ethnographic gaze onto itself, reflecting upon the administration of racialized labor for transporting artifacts from across the world to the collections of European museums. Details »
Detail from The Administration, 2016 Inkjet prints on archival paper. Courtesy the artist and Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm.
As a preserve manager with Natural Lands—an organization that protects and cares for open space across eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey—the former English major supervises about 600 acres of woods, meadows, and crop fields.
Read "At Home (and Work) in Nature" in the Fall 2017 issue of Haverford magazine.
Barringer oversees Crow's Nest Preserve along French Creek in Chester County, PA. Photo: Patrick Montero.
The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) encourages and supports creative and strategic thinking around a problem, a need, a question, or simply an interest. The goal is to find new solutions and opportunities for entrepreneurial projects and paths of learning.
The Microfinance and Impact Investing Initiative (Mi3) and HIP held a discussion in the new VCAM facility with Ben Powell '93, CEO of Agora Partnerships, a social enterprise accelerator. After the talk, Rebecca Fisher '18 gave a presentation on her cricket farm project. Photo: Wanyi Yang '20.
Haverford’s biochemistry program is located at the interface between the biological, chemical, and physical sciences. For our ambitious students and faculty who seek to understand biological processes from physical and chemical points of view, this is an especially exciting place to be.
The 2015 "Biochemistry Superlab" course was the subject of a recent PLOS Biology paper co-authored by all of the class' 16 students and its co-teachers, Professor Rob Fairman (center) and Assistant Professor Lou Charkoudian (third from right). Students from across the sciences take the class—with preference given to biochemistry concentrators—and professors from the Departments of Biology and Chemistry team-teach it, addressing interdisciplinary interests.
Former Haverford soccer players Amy Arundale '07 and Erica Blanco '07, who met on their first day on campus, compete together on an Australian Rules Football team.
Read "Playing Footy" in the Fall 2017 issue of Haverford magazine.
Amy Arundale ‘07 is a member of the Philadelphia Lady Hawks footy team. Photo: Lynton Crabb.
An utterly transformed Alumni Field House—think floor-to-ceiling red curtains and candlelight—hosted a gala celebration of Lives That Speak: The Campaign for Haverford. The presentation featured an elaborate set and faculty, staff, and students speaking about the improvements the campaign has made possible.
Missed yesterday’s photo? See the Field House back “Then“.
Musical interludes composed for the occasion were performed on piano by Ruth Marshall Magill Professor of Music Curt Cacioppo. Photo: Dan Z. Johnson.
Donated by alumni and friends of the College in 1957, the Alumni Field House provides extensive facilities for athletics and recreation.
Come back tomorrow to see the Field House at Haverford “Now”.
Students decorating the Field House with balloons for an event, circa 1965.
Haverford’s new Visual Culture, Arts, and Media (VCAM) facility houses the College’s Interdisciplinary Minor in Visual Studies, the Haverford Innovations Program, and the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, and its new Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives initiative.
Maker Arts Technician and Coordinator Kent Watson ran a workshop, one of several he hosted last semester, to introduce the Maker Space. “We together all created a fork—I thought was a fun, simple first design, ” said Watson. “But also there was a lot experimentation within that. You have a clear goal, you know what a fork looks like.” Photo: Patrick Montero
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.