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The Associate Professor of Anthropology will show and discuss her latest documentary, Broken Pots, Broken Dreams: Working In Jingdezhen's Porcelain Industry, this week.

The Associate Professor of Music talks about the challenges and rewards of directing choral programs at small liberal arts colleges. He recently chaired a panel discussion on this topic at Yale University.

A volume on the history of China co-edited by Paul Jakov Smith has been recognized by Choice, a magazine for academic libraries.

Professor of English Theresa Tensuan and filmmaker and bookstore buyer Mary DiLullo are shooting a documentary about the innovative writing workshops led by bestselling author and artist Lynda Barry.

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.

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>

Assistant professor of mathematics Joshua M. Sabloff answers that question in an article that appears in the new issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society, the worlds most widely read magazine aimed at professional mathematicians. Sabloff’s article is part of a series designed to introduce members of the Society to important current topics.

Two articles by the Emeritus Professor of Biology, focusing on the history of notable scientific discoveries, have been published this fall in academic journals.

The associate professor of anthropology joined a panel of experts to discuss post-apartheid South Africa at the Wilma Theater in conjunction with the current run of Athol Fugard's play Coming Home.

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.

Helen White was hired as a tenure-track assistant professor as a result of a national search, and arrived on campus in early August to set up a new environmental chemistry lab and prepare for chemistry and environmental classes she will be teaching during the 2009-2010 academic year.

The installation, created by artist Zoulikha Bouabdellah, is on view at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design as part of an exhibition of works by the winners of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize, which aims to build links between the Middle Eastern and Western art worlds. A panel discussion is set for September 10 (see below).

Jerry Gollub and University of Cambridge collaborators discover a new mechanism for the swimming of micro-organisms.

Blase was recognized by the Philadelphia branch of the American Chemical Society for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.