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Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature David L. Sedley teaches French with a focus on the 16th and 17th centuries.
Read Office Hour in the Winter 2017 issue of Haverford Magazine.
David Sedley in the College Avenue home he shares with his wife, Associate Professor of History Lisa Graham. Photo: Patrick Montero.
Opening April 4, 2017
4:30 p.m.
Sharpless Gallery & Magill Library
Curated by Victor Medina Del Toro '17, Expanding the Universe problematizes the conventional wisdom of rapid scientific progress in astronomy after the creation of the telescope. Details »
Samuel Alsop, Jr., director of the observatory and professor of physics and astronomy, in front of the Haverford Observatory in 1878.
Haverford College mailed acceptance letters to the 859 students offered admission to the Class of 2021. This class represents the College's most selective year yet. After receiving a record 4,424 applications, Haverford admitted 19 percent of its applicants.
The picture of the future Class of 2021 will become even clearer after May 1, the date by which accepted students must commit to enroll in the College. Photo: Patrick Montero.
Through April 15, 2017
Alcove Gallery, Magill Library
Through his lens, Miao (Hmong) scholar Bode Wang illustrates a colorful and sophisticated world of the Miao nationality. On exhibition is a sampling of his photos which demonstrate the environment, human communities, social customs, and religious practices of his hometown. Details »
Exhibition sponsors include the Bi-Co East Asian Languages and Cultures Department and the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment. Photo: Bode Wang.
Fake news has become a social media scourge, and perhaps a threat to all of us. Four alumni journalists muse on what’s driving the phenomenon and how it might be stopped in the Winter 2017 issue of Haverford magazine.
The campus community is invited to register for a Liberal Arts Consortium for Online Learning event titled "You Are the New Gatekeeper of the News" that will take place on April 4.
Among the holdings in Special Collections' vast Charles Roberts Autograph Letters Collection are a number of letters written by Alexander Hamilton—who, though he's been dead for more than 200 years, has become just about the hottest Founding Father ever, thanks to the smash broadway musical Hamilton.
"In the Collection" highlights some of the rare and marvelous items that are part of Magill Library's Special Collections. Photo: Patrick Montero.
"This course examines how and in what ways consumption has come to occupy a central—and often unquestioned—place in our everyday lives." — Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Elise Herrala
Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.
See what other courses the Sociology Department is offering this semester. Photo: Macy's store on Black Friday, 2012. (cc) Diariocritico de Venezuela
The passion Megan Holt ’14 has for field hockey has sent her on an incredible journey. It started in her hometown of Bryn Mawr, continued at Haverford—where she was a field hockey team captain—and has taken her all the way across the world to Copenhagen, where she now lives and plays for a club team.
Holt was the first non-Dane to be voted Female Player of the Year by the Dansk Hockey Union. Photo: Claus Peuckert.
The College’s long-running Mentoring and Student Teaching program, which welcomed its newest class in January, gives Haverford students the opportunity to tutor local secondary school students in science and writing, creating a relaxed environment where learning is a mutual experience.
MAST tutor Hassan Ahamed '19 works with high school students Stephen Njiru and David Miller to build a mousetrap racecar. Photo: Leigh Taylor.
In the 1930s, Haverford's admission viewbook was little more than a bound set of postcards illustrating the college experience. By the 1970s (as shown in the viewbook pictured left) hundreds of words did the talking.
The energetic design of the new viewbook (right) spotlights student agency, and unpacks today’s Haverford by portraying the lives and work of four specific students.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.