Mercedes Davis '20, Deborah Ekwale BMC '21, and Valentina Zavala-Arbelaez '21 make up the first cohort of this new fellowship, an outgrowth of the longstanding Haverford House Fellows, that partners recent graduates with entry-level positions at nonprofits in Philadelphia.
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The environmental studies major will join the 74th Coro Class of Northern California, rotating through six placements in San Francisco across government, nonprofit, and business sectors to accelerate positive change.
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The environmental studies major will be based at Makerere University, researching how local livelihoods around the Lake Victoria basin must be both adaptive and resilient in light of hydro-climatic disasters.
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The German studies and economics double major will spend next year in Germany immersing herself in international dialogue and strengthening her teaching skills.
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The history major who has been working as a global writing and speaking fellow at NYU Shanghai since her graduation will move to Spain next year to further enrich her teaching practice.
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Associate Professor of Linguistics Brook Lillehaugen and her collaborators were honored by the Latin American Studies Association for their volume of open access, pedagogical resources centered on Valley Zapotec-language materials created during the Mexican Colonial period.
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Berson is one of the screenwriters of Judas and the Black Messiah, which tells the story of the 1969 assassination of 21-year-old Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and the FBI informant who betrayed him.
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Soha Saghir and Joseph Stein will spend the next year traveling the world in pursuit of independent research projects cultivated on a global scale thanks to the $36,000 award.
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The assistant professor of physics and astronomy earned a five-year $689,561 grant to support his research on topological assessments in granular materials.
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The political science major is one of 212 students from 39 states, Washington, D.C., and Mexico who make up the 2021 cohort of the fellowship, which provides yearlong learning and networking opportunities emphasizing personal, professional, and civic growth.
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Sixty-five percent of the Fords who applied this year were selected as semi-finalists for the international fellowship program that funds research projects, courses of study, and English Teaching Assistant Programs.
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The assistant professor of computer science earned the NIH award for a project that will use machine learning to develop algorithms for analyzing genomic datasets.
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Building on earlier NIH-funded work that engaged 40 undergraduate researchers, the associate professor of chemistry will continue her acyl carrier protein research thanks to a new $297,992 grant.
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The award recognizes full-time faculty members with outstanding teaching records.
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The associate professor of computer science is studying discrimination and mitigation of algorithms on social networks with her collaborators, including Haverford alum Aaron Clauset ’01.