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Star Gazing at Haverford

Haverford astronomer Bruce Partridge credits the International Year of Astronomy, a worldwide Galileo celebration, as inspiration for “No Night Without a Telescope.” The event, which Partridge helped launch, features free observing nights at eight Philadelphia area institutions every night of the lunar cycle running through November 24.
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Curt Cacioppo's "When the Orchard Dances Ceased" performed at Carnegie Hall

On Monday, November 30th at 7:30 pm, the world premiere of Curt Cacioppo's "When the Orchard Dances Ceased" will be performed at Carnegie Hall in NYC by the American Composers Orchestra. This piece is "a meditation, or a lamentation, on the destruction of the Navajo peach orchards in Canyon de Chelly during the 1860's, part of a scorched earth/forced relocation policy carried out against the tribe by the government". Learn more>
“My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.”

Look for Haverford College in the closing credits of the new Jane Campion film Bright Star, about poet John Keats' secret love affair with Fanny Brawne. Haverford gets a special thank you for providing access to an 1819 love letter written by Keats that is part of Special Collections at Magill Library.
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Haverford College Receives $10 Million Challenge Gift

The Jaharis Family Foundation pledges support for a new dormitory, tentatively sited on Orchard Lot, which will be a cornerstone of Haverford’s upcoming comprehensive fundraising campaign.

Alumni News

Lane Savadove '89 Relocates a Theater Company

After Hurricane Katrina destroyed their theater in New Orleans and the homes of many company members, Savadove's EgoPo Theater Company made a new home in Philadelphia.
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Alumni Founders of Video Game Company Aren't Just Playing Around

Halsted Larsson '03 and Tim Ambrogi '04 are two of the creators of Final Form Games, a Philadelphia-based game development company. Their mission is, among other things, to create socially responsible games.
Opinion Piece by Karan Shah '09 Appears in Wall Street Journal's India-Based Publication

The former economics major advises India's United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government not to misuse governors for partisan purposes.
Do Not Meddle in the States
Harlan Jacobson '71 Heads Film Fest

Jacobson, a longtime film critic and scholar, has taken over as artistic director of the Philadelphia Film Festival, which runs through October 19.
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Rodger Jardine '89 Recalls His Journey to Becoming CEO of South African Construction Group

Former "rabble-rouser" Jardine now heads Aveng, one of South Africa's leading construction groups. He was recently profiled in the South African Financial Mail.
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The Truth About Hitler's Skull

When cinematographer Jonathan Miller ’01 shot an episode of the new History Channel series “Mystery Quest” he didn’t expect it to become an international incident and fodder for a Letterman monologue. But that’s just what happened.

Faculty News

Mel Santer Delves Into Science's Past

Two articles by the Emeritus Professor of Biology, focusing on the history of notable scientific discoveries, have been published this fall in academic journals.
Zolani Ngwane to Speak at Philadelphia Theater's South Africa Symposium

The associate professor of anthropology will join a panel of experts to discuss post-apartheid South Africa at the Wilma Theater on November 8, in conjunction with the current run of Athol Fugard's play Coming Home.
Casey Londergan Receives NIH Grant

The funding will allow the Haverford chemistry professor and his lab to use new methods to study the structural changes that occur when proteins bind to other proteins. The lab's research could shed light on several common diseases associated with disordered proteins.
Fall 2009 Faculty Updates

Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances and publications.
Ruti Talmor is the Hurford Humanities Center's 2009-11 Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow

Talmor is a scholar and filmmaker who explores the art world as an "intercultural zone," where art and objects become global representations of specific cultures.
Helen K. White Joins Haverford as Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry

White's position is the first to be funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support environmental studies at Haverford. She'll also help to develop an environmental studies curriculum.

Haverford in the News

Feeding the World

The Jewish Exponent recently published an Op Ed piece adapted from a talk American Jewish World Service President Ruth Messinger gave at Haverford in October. Messinger, who spoke about the AJWS's "Fighting Hunger From the Ground Up" campaign, spent four days on campus as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.
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