Alyssa Mayo '13 & Marjon Zamani '13 collect flocking data outside Roberts Hall for their research with Prof. Suzanne Amador Kane.
Each summer, approximately 75 students gain invaluable hands-on experience by assisting faculty with original scientific research in the seven departments of the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center.
Inside Marshall Auditorium, which offers a Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand piano, a Schlicker two-manual Baroque style organ, and a Shortridge-Jacquet two-manual harpsichord.
Choral music has long been an important part of campus life at Haverford and Bryn Mawr. An oratorio choir of 150 singers, the Chorale performs a major work with an orchestra each semester.
Environmental anthropologist Nikhil Anand lectures on the history of the global environmental movement.
The Tri-College Environmental Studies Program offers students across the three campuses an interdisciplinary approach to some of the crucial issues of our time.
Anthropologist Jesse Weaver Shipley (pictured with camera during a recent visit to Kenya) has embarked on an initiative to showcase the rising phenomenon that is African hip-hop.
Haverford faculty model academic excellence through their scholarship and an ongoing commitment to compelling, effective instruction.
Hank Glassman with a Jizō statue (center) in the College’s Japanese garden.
More than 25 years after first laying eyes on a cloth-draped stone statue in Japan, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies Hank Glassman publishes his book on Buddhist deity Jizō. Read the Spring/Summer 2012 Faculty Profile in HAVERFORD magazine »
Glenn Kaino, Graft (Ostrich), 2006. Python skin, ostrich, feathers, plastic, thread and paint, lifesize. Installation photo by Andy Kim '10.
In a unique student-faculty collaboration, Professor Carol Solomon and Janet Yoon ’10 co-curated Mapping Identity, an exhibition featuring internationally-recognized artists whose works deal with issues of transnational identity, and the effects of displacement, exile, hybridity cosmopolitanism and the state of … Continue reading
Associate Professor of Political Science Anita Isaacs teaching in her home on the Haverford campus.
Haverford’s student-faculty ratio is 8:1 and 97% of our full time faculty hold the highest degree in their field. With half the faculty living on campus, mentoring and commitment to excellence in teaching are cornerstones of the Haverford experience.
Here students celebrate handing in their exams by tossing them to the front of the room.
In the academic context, the Honor Code engenders an immediate sense of trust and colleagueship between students and faculty and creates a relaxed, personal atmosphere.
Shanaye Jeffers, Faraz Sohail and Kaitlyn Shank, all Class of 2012, in their Bio300 class, aka "Super Lab."
Then & Now: Microscopes A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation brought several new high-tech instruments to campus. Among them is this confocal microscope, which employs a laser beam to produce high-quality images. Missed yesterday’s photo? See microscopes … Continue reading
Alberto created an image of a black squirrel that's only two to three microns wide. Just how small is it? You could fit 1000 of his squirrels head-to-tail on the head of a pin.
“Professor Walter Smith put me in charge of a $100,000 scanning electron microscope and trusted me with a new technology for Haverford: electron beam lithography. Being able to manufacture nanoscale objects was fascinating, and I loved being on the cutting … Continue reading
Professor of Fine Arts Ying Li instructs a student during a painting class.
The Fine Arts at Haverford emphasize the individual. Studio classes are small and all students—from beginners to declared majors—receive individual, focused instruction, and are encouraged to develop the physical and critical skills necessary to create art.
Follow the Helen K White blog this summer as her lab group returns to the Gulf to research effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill.
Through funding from the KINSC’s travel stipend program, Katie Sheline ’13 was able to join Environmental chemist Helen White as part of a team of scientists on a research cruise that studied the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf … Continue reading