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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>

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.

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.

The high-tech camera, along with reduced foliage and brighter lights, is meant to increase safety along the trail leading to the Haverford College Apartments.

Haverford hosted a week of brainstorming sessions to create a prototype for "Earth Dashboard," an interactive computerized exhibit that will be displayed in the lobby of the U.N. Building.

Thanks to the Hurford Humanities Center, Julia Dunbar '10 is spending this summer with the University of Pennsylvania's Mapping Du Bois Project. She's helping to create a board game, documentary, and interactive map aimed at teaching inner-city students about Philadelphia's diverse history.

Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore Colleges will use the grant to evaluate and develop tools for assessing student learning in selected academic departments.