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  • Exploring Displacement through Text and Image

    A new on-campus multimedia exhibition by Dita Cavdarbasha ’19, letter to my serbian neighbor, presents a personal engagement with the effects of the Kosovo War.

  • Inaugurating Haverford’s First Liberal Arts Career Conference

    The CCPA event opened dialogues about career paths, networking, and professional resources between attendees from a variety of disciplines and industries.

  • Out-of-This-World Fun

    A large crowd gathered for liquid-nitrogen ice cream, rocket building, and a student talk on dark matter as part of Strawbridge’s Public Observing event.

  • Richard Phillips portrait

    Richard Phillips '18 Wins Computing Research Association Award

    The computer science major is the only one of the four winners of the 2018 Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award from a liberal arts college. 

  • The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

    Due to finals, all may not be calm, but it sure is bright thanks to the denizens of Lloyd, who are continuing the tradition of Lloyd Lights by decorating their doorways in festive, seasonal style.

  • Science Made Visual

    This semester the Biology Department launched its first film series to “spark a conversation about biological themes and how students can get involved in research early during their time at Haverford.”

  • Members of the Biochemistry Superlab course with their professors

    The Class That Publishes Together

    A "Biochemistry Superlab" course co-taught by Professor Rob Fairman and Assistant Professor Lou Charkoudian recently published a peer-reviewed paper in PLOS Biology detailing not only the results of in-class research, but also how the class itself was designed to facilitate such research. 

  • Celebrating India’s Revolutionary Optimists

    A recent screening of a documentary about Prayasam, which works to empower disadvantaged youth from the Kolkata slums and has employed CPGC-sponsored interns in the past, showcased the connection between the organization and Haverford.

  • George O'Hara portrait

    Translating the Russian AIDS Crisis

    George O'Hara '18, a double major in Russian and chemistry, combined his interests by joining an epidemiological research project that resulted in a paper in PLOS Medicine's recent special issue on HIV/AIDS. 

  • A discussion section at the MMUF Regional Conference at Haverford College

    Celebrating Professorial and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education

    At the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, fellows and coordinators from local MMUF institutions visited Haverford for two days of discipline-spanning workshops, presentations, and discussions related to diversifying the academy.

  • The Haverford student group at High Rocks in West Virginia

    Learning to Serve, Serving to Learn

    Over fall break, the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship sent its latest contingent of volunteers to High Rocks, an education and leadership institute for rural girls in West Virginia. 

  • The Rhythm of the Words and the Pleasure of the Sounds

    Award-winning poets Joan Larkin and Robert Hershon read a selection of their work last week at an event organized by Visiting Assistant Professor of English Thomas Devaney and sponsored by creative writing programs at Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities.

  • How To Make a Fork

    In a workshop in the VCAM building’s new Maker Space, students learned 3D modeling software and digital fabrication equipment.

  • Eating From the Ground Up

    Ehaus’ third annual Haverfarm dinner celebrated final big harvest of the season.

  • What Fall Break? These Fords Spent Their Vacations Doing Research

    Thanks to funding from the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, Liana Alves ’18 and Aaron Schankler ’18 used their week off from classes to gather data for their senior theses.

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