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Taught by Assistant Professor Jane Chandlee, this introduction to the methodologies used in the automated recognition and synthesis of human speech (used for such technologies as Siri and Amazon Echo) is cross-listed in the computer science and linguistics departments.
Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.
Photo: Wanyi Yang '20.
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 and Track & Field teams are referred to as Goats. Haverford means “goat crossing” in Welsh. Photo: Michael Branscom.
The Bi-College Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC) links rigorous language training to the study of East Asian—particularly Chinese and Japanese—culture and society.
EALC is co-sponsoring A Taste of Japan: Food in Japanese Cinema. The first film, A Drop of the Grapevine (Budō no namida), will be shown in the VCAM Screening Room on Sept. 27, 2017.
Assistant Professor of Biology Roshan Jain’s research focuses on how genes control behavior, using zebrafish to ask and answer questions about decision making, learning, and memory.
Read Office Hour in the Special issue of Haverford Magazine.
Jain played bassoon through grad school and is a member of the Bi-Co Chorale, where he plays with other musicians from Haverford and Bryn Mawr. Photo: Cole Sansom '19.
Through October 30, 2017
Alcove Gallery, Magill Library
In collaboration with Associate Professor of Classics Bret Mulligan's Tales of Troy class, this exhibit features Greek vases and modern prints. Details »
Attic Black-figure Lekythos, Unknown Artist, ca. 515 BCE-510 BCE.
This chemistry course taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Yang Yang "seeks to comprehend chemistry as a science, but equally appreciate its artistic aspect and the complementary roles a chemist plays as both scientist and artist."
Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.
Course illustration by Yang Yang.
Through October 8, 2017
Atrium Gallery, Marshall Fine Arts Center
This exhibition brings together important photographs, manuscripts, and related works by five artists from the late 19th–early 20th century. Four of them attended Haverford, and all were birthright Quakers, born in Greater Philadelphia and nurtured by the city’s culture and traditions. Details »
Cricket Shed, Haverford College [1901], Platinum print on paper; 6 x 8 in. (15.24 x 20.32 cm), Gift, Trina Vaux McCauley, December 2013 / HC14-5213.
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 Inititative (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 has more than 145 student clubs and organizations, like the Bi-Co Gymnastics Club. The club offers both enthusiastic beginners and former champions the chance to practice their skills in twice-weekly meetings at an off-campus gym.
Members of the Bi-Co Gymnastics Club practicing at the Upper Merion Dance & Gymnastics Center in King of Prussia, PA. Photo: Wanyi Yang '20
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.