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Sustainability

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As a core institutional principle, sustainability animates ​Haverford's broad mission of stewarding ​its​ financial, ethical, and curricular endowments in the interest of educating principled global citizens while safeguarding intergenerational equity as a perpetual institution.

The annual Do it in the Dark energy-saving competition featured a month of energy reduction, sustainable food practices, and environmentally focused events sponsored by the Committee for Environmental Responsibility. Photo: Patrick Montero.

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Previous Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Students using a 16-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
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COOL CLASSES: "Advanced Topics: Observational Astronomy"

“Advanced Topics: Observational Astronomy”

Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Karen Masters's observational astronomy course makes use of the telescopes we have on campus, including a 16-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain, and includes a field trip to the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia to do some radio astronomy.

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

Elizabeth Teng '20 looks through the telescope in Strawbridge Observatory. Photo: Holden Blanco '17. See what other courses the Department of Physics and Astronomy is offering this semester.

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Next Thursday, April 4, 2019
Students getting up-close with machinery
Thursday, April 4, 2019
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Then & Now: Machine Shop

Machine Shop

The circa-1925 machine shop in long-gone Whitall Hall was a prime teaching tool for the engineering program of the time. According to the 1925 course catalog, there were woodworking and metalworking shops, a drafting room, and a materials laboratory for the testing of boilers, engines, air compressors, and the like.

Come back tomorrow to see the machine shop "Now."

Photo: College Archives.

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