Haverford Blogs

Quaker & Special Collections of Magill Library provide a lighthearted inside look at some of the treasures of Special Collections.

Janet Yoon '10 hopes to document all the steps that go into curating a show and what she did as a student research assistant for Prof. Carol Solomon and their upcoming exhibit Mapping Identity.

Ehaus is a co-op on campus that works to live in a more environmentally sustainable way and bring awareness about the impacts of living this way.

Assistant Professor Bret Mulligan blogs on news and events (mostly) related to Haverford Classics courses.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science John "JD" Dougherty blogs on exploring how to design and implement tools and teaching methods to resolve issues in both diversity and accessibility.

Assistant Professor White is reporting on her lab as they investigate how organic compounds persist in the environment and move between different reservoirs.

How does music alter and enhance a film? How does film change the way we perceive music? Jane Holloway '11 and Genna Cherichello '11 will be exploring these questions and more through their Student Seminar blog.

Jennifer Trowbridge '04 relays stories from the grave(site) for those would like to follow along as she practices forensic anthropology in Guatemala.

David Felsen '72 writes, produces and shoots. He also blogs about the modern production office experience.

Andrew Peterson '04 documents his experiences in Burundi working with a Quaker organization that conducts workshops on conflict management, peace building, trauma healing, and reconciliation in East Africa.

Monica Stegman '10 is spending the summer on a field project in New Mexico with Bryn Mawr's new ecologist studying temperature regulation in lizards.

Associate Professor of English Maud McInerney is going to be in a great many interesting places looking at art and architecture from the perspective of someone whose research interests lie in the 12th-15th centuries.

Nick Lotito '10 will be traveling to Niger to work with the Nigerien Movement for the Defense and Promotion of Democratic and Human Rights.

Meghan McAllister '10 will be researching the architecture of social housing in Belfast, focusing on finding ways to incorporate peacebuilding into the design process of social housing in highly religiously segregated neighborhoods.

Eli Blood-Patterson '11 and Dena Kronfeld BMC '11 will be sharing thoughts and photos from Nanjing, China as part of their summer internship with Amity Foundation Teaching Program.

Katie Johnston-Davis '10 will be working with the Self Employed Women’s Association, an organization that works to organize its members to achieve their goals of full employment and self reliance.

Ariel Herm '10 will be blogging about her internship with Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in New York.

Maggie Bishop '10 returns to Nicarague to work with Asociación Los Quinchos, an intricate program for former glue-sniffing street children.

Nora Graham '11 and Mohenna Sarkar '11 are working for Ashoka International in New Delhi.

Andrew Bostick '12 will be blogging from Southern France as part of his summer internship with World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms.

Martin Blood-Forsythe '10, Garrett Vanacore '11 and Alex Cahill '11 are in Santander, Spain collaborating with researchers, exploring fermions in curved spacetime and the cosmic microwave background at the Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria.

Cecily Moyer '09 will be testing the soil and vegetables of community gardens in Philadelphia for lead and other heavy metals with Ari Briski BMC '09.

Misha Baker '10 will be attempting to infiltrate the underground reggae and ska scene, hoping to explore youth identity transformations and cultural movements as well as the theme of social justice through music using the Czech Republic as her research site.

Fay Strongin '10 is in Philadelphia exploring the intersection between urban and rural life, the dynamics of local food production, and getting to know all the plants and people who make it happen.

David Garcia-Pedrosa '10 is in Shanghai getting his Teaching English as a Foreign Language Certificate before traveling to Quetzaltenango to volunteer at the Pop Wuj medical clinic and teach in the language school.

Kayleigh Herrick-Reynolds '11, Kara Percival '11 and Jane Holloway '11 will be blogging from Guatemala this summer.

French major Grant Firestone '10 returns to the "City of Lights" for a summer internship at the International Herald Tribune.

Alexa Kutler '11 is photo-blogging from her semester abroad in Cape Town, South Africa. She will be there from July to December studying about Religion, Race and Conflicts in South Africa.

The 2009 Hurford Humanities Center Mellon Symposium was a series of four simultaneous, collaborative workshops that teamed contemporary artists with Haverford students.

Campus Philly and 20 college students decided against spending money on airfare, hotels over Spring Break. Instead, they stayed in the City to focus on helping their local community.

Michael Novinson '10 is a political science major, education minor, and prospective journalist. He will be studying abroad in Cairo during the spring semester.

Documents the three days of non-stop field trips that students organized for Harrell Fletcher's visit to Haverford as part of the among friends Symposium. Field trip leaders posted reactions to and pictures of their trips.

Lauren Dickey '10, Roby Yoskowitz '09, Alexa Kutler '11 and Student Activities Director Jason McGraw shared their photos and experiences from the inauguration of President Obama.

Adam Subhas '09 went on a month-long research cruise with Jess Adkins '90 looking for deep sea corals.