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Recent Acquisitions 2013 to 2016

Through December 4, 2016
Atrium Gallery, Marshall Fine Arts Center

The Haverford College Photography Collection is one of the largest of any liberal arts college in the nation. This exhibition gathers 60 stellar works gifted to and purchased by the College over the last three years. Details »

Haverford’s Physics major and minor bring together students and faculty interested in investigating the physical principles that animate the natural world. Our rigorous programs provide significant opportunities for first-hand experimental and theoretical investigations and a solid foundation in the basic principles of the discipline.

"Thinking About Music"

"The class examines the big questions that swirl around music and musical creativity, and it tries to examine how musicians and musical thinkers have tried to answer them over the ages." — John C. Whitehead '43 Professor of Humanities and Associate Provost Richard Freedman

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

Haverford has more than 145 student groups that publish magazines, host symposia, sing a cappella, discuss religion and spirituality, stay politically active, maintain a system of student self-government, dance, demonstrate and create.

A chemistry major and biochemistry concentrator, Toan Nguyen '14 developed a passion for medicine and social justice after taking an independent college programs course called “Bodies of Injustice: Health, Illness, and Healing in Contexts of Inequality.”

The Committee for Environmental Responsibility (CER) was created by the students, faculty, and staff of Haverford College, and founded on our socially responsible principles. CER's mission is to educate our community about global environmental concerns, and to be a positive example for students at Haverford and other colleges to follow.

English major Courtney Carter '17 curated an exhibition after creating a curatorial proposal as a final project for her sophomore year class  “Theory and Practice of Exhibition: Objects, Images, Texts, Events.”

This year’s Family and Friends Weekend, which welcomed hundreds of our students’ relatives to campus, was themed around issues of environmentalism and sustainability.

“I specifically remember choosing Haverford, in part, because of the 4+1 engineering program. It provides a fantastic opportunity for Haverford students to get two degrees from two great schools in only five years, while also opening up an avenue into the engineering world for those of us who want to pursue that career path.”  - Sam Yarosh '16

Haverford is the first liberal arts college in the world to enter into such an agreement with an Ivy League engineering program.

Case Studies in Environmental Issues: Concepts, Contexts, and Conundrums

"The study of the environment is larger than any one class—or faculty member’s expertise—so we’ve designed the course to study a small number of case studies each year from the perspective of two faculty members in different disciplines: ideally, a scientist and someone from the social sciences, humanities, or arts." — Assistant Professor of Biology Jonathan Wilson

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