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.
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 recently the first non-Dane to be voted Female Player of the Year by the Dansk Hockey Union. Photo: Claus Peuckert.
Haverford has more than 145 student clubs and organizations, like the Outdoors Club, which has a climbing sector that does weekly indoor rock climbing trips, technical lessons, and outdoor climbing trips over school breaks.
Erica Blum '18 rock climbing at the New River Gorge, W.Va., over fall break. Photo: Noah Weinstein '18.
October 21, 2016–December 11, 2016
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
Curated by Jeanne Vaccaro with Stamatina Gregory, Bring Your Own Body: transgender between archives and aesthetics presents the work of transgender artists and archives, from the institutional and sexological to the personal and liminal. Details »
Zackary Drucker, Southern for Pussy (2015). Film still. Courtesy of the artist.
Opening October 21, 2016
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
Curated by Jeanne Vaccaro with Stamatina Gregory, Bring Your Own Body: transgender between archives and aesthetics presents the work of transgender artists and archives, from the institutional and sexological to the personal and liminal. Details »
Zackary Drucker, Southern for Pussy (2015). Film still. Courtesy of the artist.
Much of Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sorelle Friedler’s research takes place in a heady realm known as “high-dimensional space”—used to model data sets with many attributes—where, instead of the two or three dimensions most of us are familiar with, there can be 250 or even 1,000 dimensions.
Read Office Hour in the Spring/Summer 2015 issue of Haverford Magazine.
The Summer Institute on Ethical Leadership aims to provide future leaders with tools to use when dealing with challenging situations. Twelve students were part of the inaugural cohort, and twelve alums returned to campus to lead the program.
Physician and biotech entrepreneur Ted Love '81, CEO of Global Blood Therapeutics, shared ethical-investor strategies during the inaugural Ethical Leadership Summer Institute. Photo: Leigh Taylor.
"I wanted to create a space of real interdisciplinarity. Many fields—including history, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies—address the visual. Bringing them together can help us map out a picture of the world that is truly nuanced and complex—one that centers critical questions rather than answers." — Assistant Professor of Visual Studies Christina Knight
Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience .
See what other courses Independent College Programs is offering this semester. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech
“Being in a community like Haverford with such a strong code of ethics and honor helps form a basis from which to successfully interface with colleagues and grow a professional network in a field that relies heavily on collaboration and a degree of trust.” – Sarah Burke Spolaor ’06
The Young Academic Alumni Lecture Series connects current students, faculty, and community members to Haverford’s vibrant alumni presence in the academic world. These presentations are sponsored by the Library in partnership with different academic departments.
Nicholas D'Avella '01 recently gave a talk entitled "Barrio Ecologies: Patios, Real Estate, and the Politics of Articulation in Buenos Aires." Photo: Lily Hangcheng Xu '19.
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.
Men's Soccer midfielder Max Krieg '19 practicing on Swan Field. Photo: Holden Blanco '17.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.