Where They're Headed: Rachel Miller '17

Where They're Headed

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Rachel Miller ’17, who majored in political science with a concentration in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, will gain experience in the fields of international security, foreign policy, and counterterrorism at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

"Where They're Headed" is a blog series detailing the post-graduation plans of the Class of 2017.

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Previous Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Anna Schrecengost '18 and Kristen Whalen

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Kristen Whalen Earns NSF Award

The assistant professor of biology was awarded $356,028 as part of a larger collaborative grant to fund her work exploring why certain "infochemicals" in the ocean cause phytoplankton death. This summer, Whalen is in Norway conducting field work with her student Anna Schrecengost '18 at the Norwegian National Mesocosm Centre at the Espegrend Marine Biological Station to understand how a bacterial molecule, or "infochemical," she identified—known as HHQ—influences the dynamics of natural communities of bacteria and phytoplankton.

Anna Schrecengost '18 (left) and Assistant Professor of Biology Kristen Whalen in Norway.

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Next Thursday, June 22, 2017

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Magill Library

Magill Library houses more than half a million volumes and provides access to 2.5 million more through a catalog system that connects it to libraries at neighboring Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges.

Summer Reading is a series that asks Haverford’s librarians and library staff for book recommendations that will enlighten, entertain, and educate you during this vacation season. Research and Instruction Librarian Semyon Khokhlov suggests three relatively new books—two from 2016 and one 2015 reissue of a book from the ’80s that had been long out of print—that grapple with desire, politics, and the modern condition. Photo: Patrick Montero.

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