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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.

Heidi Witmer ’02, founder of the LEAF Project, brings together diverse groups of teenagers to learn about nutrition, cooking, and farming—and the values of hard work, entrepreneurship, and sustainable living.

Madison Skerritt, Charlie Hale, Lynnie Woodruff, Chloe Wang, Katy Frank, and Deedee Eisape (not pictured) are the 2017-18 class of Haverford House Fellows and will spend a year exploring global citizenship in Philadelphia and strengthening connections between the College and the city.

Amira Abujbara ’17 was completely new to fencing when she joined the Haverford team as a sophomore. In just three short years, the foilist rose to the rank of team captain while her fencing prowess earned her a spot on the national team of her native Qatar.

Read "Fencing in Qatar" in the Spring/Summer 2017 issue of Haverford magazine.

A talented team of student photographers helps the Office of College Communications document life at Haverford for the web, social media, the magazine, and posterity. These 10 Fords shot more than 30,000 photos at 236 different events during the 2016-17 academic year.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Lou Charkoudian '03 has lots of books in her office, but two have particular significance: the chemistry textbooks she used when she was a Haverford student in the organic chemistry classes of professors Karin Åkerfeldt and Fran Blase, who are now Charkoudian’s colleagues. 

Read Office Hour in the Spring/Summer 2017 issue of Haverford Magazine.

John G. Bullock, Maxfield Parrish, and George, Mary, and William Vaux: Photographers of the Real

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 »

Caleb Eckert '17 pondered the pivotal role of water in the lives of those in his hometown of Flagstaff, Arizona. The anthropology major and environmental studies minor filmed and researched alongside springs ecologists to understand the settler colonial entanglements of human-water relationships in Northern Arizona.

Math major Amelia DiAngelo '17 is working as a research associate at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a nonprofit government contractor that helps address national security concerns.

The Chesick Scholars program is a four-year academic mentoring and leadership program for exceptional students from underrepresented or under-resourced backgrounds. This year’s 15 scholars capped their five-week summer session with a symposium on identity formation and social reproduction.