Presidential Search Update

The Presidential Search Committee met several times over the summer and much progress has been made in the search. With input from the community, three documents have been developed: The advertisement for the position, a piece titled, “Challenges and Opportunities,” and a Presidential “viewbook,” which gives a panoramic look at the College for potential candidates. All of these documents and up-to-date information may be found on the Presidential Search Web page, www.haverford.edu/presidentialsearch

The committee has retained the executive search firm of Isaacson, Miller, and the nominations phase of the process is now in full swing. An online nomination form can be found on the College’s Presidential Search Web page.

Along with Barbara Stevens and Peter Stanley of Isaacson, Miller, the committee will move quickly to identify the best nominees and narrow the field to a list of candidates to be seriously considered.

Feedback and comments about the search, the process, the candidates, and Haverford in general are encouraged. Contact information for committee members is found on the Search Web page.

Presidential Search Committee
Howard Lutnick ’83, chair
Cathy P. Koshland ’72 &
Barry L. Zubrow ’75, ex officio
Additional Board members:
Jennifer Boal ’85
Martha Brown Bryans BMC ’72
Rich Cooper ’64
Hunter Rawlings ’66
Sheila Sachs
Rick White ’81
Students:
Aleem Ahmed ’07
Geddes Munson ’07
Faculty members:
Linda Bell
Anne McGuire
Iruka Okeke
Bruce Partridge
Wendy Sternberg
Staff Representatives:
Joanne Brown
Amy Feifer
Alumni Association Executive Committee representative:
Garry Jenkins ’92
Bryn Mawr representative:
Catherine Allegra BMC ’84

Haverford Welcomes New Executive Director of the CPGC

Joseph G. Bock has been appointed executive director of Haverford’s Center for Peace and Global Citizenship. Bock was most recently executive director of the Secure World Foundation, having previously served as vice president and interim executive director of the American Refugee Committee, as well as country representative and director of development education with Catholic Relief Services. In these roles, Bock has worked extensively with educational, service, and development organizations in many places in the world, including Canada, England, China, Africa, the Balkans, Israel, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Prior to these administrative and service roles, Bock served as state representative in the Missouri General Assembly, where he chaired the Energy and Environment Committee and was vice-chair of the Commerce Committee.

Bock’s bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work are from the University of Missouri, and his Ph.D. in international relations is from the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of two books, Sharpening Conflict Management and The National Security Assistant and the White House Staff.

Revealed: Selections from the Fine Arts Collection of Haverford College
October 2, 2006 through January 31, 2007
Free and open to the public
Magill Library

Beauty, skill and imagination will be uncovered when more than 70 works of art—many presented in public for the first time—go on display in the exhibition Revealed: Selections from the Fine Arts Collection of Haverford College. Spanning many centuries and cultures, the show includes prints and paintings by artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Edouard Manet, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, and Haverford’s native son Maxfield Parrish, artifacts from ancient Greece and Africa, as well as a rich selection of photography including prints by André Kertész, Diane Arbus, Eikoh Hosoe, and Andres Serrano.

For more information:
Phone: (610) 896-1161
Or, visit haverford.edu/library/special/

Six New Tenure-Track Professors Join Haverford's Faculty

Indradeep Ghosh joins the department of economics as assistant professor. Ghosh holds a bachelor's degree from St. Stephen's College in New Delhi, India, a master's from Girton College at the United Kingdom's University of Cambridge (where he received the Adam Smith Prize as top graduating student); and most recently, a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ghosh, a former business analyst at the investment bank McKinsey and Company, is an expert in open economy macroeconomics as well as internation and financial economics, and is currently researching the relationship between trade and FDI (foreign direct investment) on developing countries and optimal monetary policy in a small, open, devloping economy.

Casey Londergan, assistant professor of chemistry, holds a bachelor's degree from Williams College and a master's and doctorate from the University of California, San Diego, where he won an Excellence in Teaching Award. He comes to Haverford from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow working on two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of backbone molecular vibrations in peptides and proteins. Londergan's main research focuses on the development of new physical techniques for understanding conformational flexibility and structural switching in proteins at the atomic level. A former research assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, Londergan will teach courses in physical chemistry and advanced general chemistry.

Ana Lopez-Sanchez joins the Spanish department as assistant professor. Lopez-Sanchez has a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in applied linguistics from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in Spain, as well as a master’s degree from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. She has also received an Erasmus Scholarship from the Université Rennes Il Haute in Bretagne, France. Her areas of concentration include second language pedagogy and acquisition, pragmatics and linguistic anthropology. She comes to Haverford from Smith College, where she taught in the department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Assistant Professor of Physics Peter Love earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Oxford University, where his work in three-dimensional lattice gas models for amphiphilic fluids was supported by a CASE Award from Schlumberger Cambridge Research. Most recently a visiting research scientist at Tufts University, he is a former intern with Joint European Torus (JET) in Oxfordshire and Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Love was a co-recipient of the HPC (High Performance Computing) Challenge Award for Most Innovative Data-Intensive Computation, Supercomputing 2003, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery.

Bret Mulligan, who served as a visiting assistant professor in the classics department this past year, begins a tenure-track appointment as assistant professor. Mulligan received his bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. in classical philology from Brown University. He is a specialist in classical Greek and Latin literature (especially epic and epistolography), Latin and Greek literature of Late Antiquity, and classical tradition. At Haverford, Mulligan has taught courses in elementary and intermediate Latin, intermediate Greek, introduction to Latin literature, fifth-century Athenian culture and society, and Roman comedy.

The psychology department welcomes Assistant Professor Jennifer Pals, whose research covers lifespan development with an emphasis on self and identity processes, personality change and growth in adulthood, narrative construction of self and identity, and self-theories of intellectual ability and personality. Pals has a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She comes to Haverford from Northwestern University, where she was a research assistant professor at the Foley Center for the Study of Lives and an adjunct instructor in the psychology department.

Haverford Alumni Awards

The 2006 Alumni Awards Ceremony was held during the Opening Ceremonies of Alumni Weekend on Saturday, May 27. The awardees were as follows:

The Alumni Award
Joe Quinlan ‘75
The Alumni Award, the most distinguished award for alumni activities given by the Association, honors an individual who, in a variety of ways, has provided sustained service to Haverford. It recognizes especially loyal and active support of the work of the College.

Over the years, Joe has donated countless hours on behalf of the College as an admissions representative, as a special gifts volunteer, and as a member of the Alumni Association Executive Committee, the Athletic Steering Committee, and the Committee of One Hundred.

One of Joe’s most notable contributions to the College is his active career mentoring of literally hundreds of alums in the world of media, and his endless creation of internships benefiting alums at media powerhouses such as McNeil-Lehrer and HBO.

The Forman Award
Anthony J. Petitti ‘83
The Lawrence Forman Award goes to a superior Haverford athlete who, throughout his or her career or volunteer time, has devoted a significant portion of their energy to the betterment of society.

While at Haverford, Tony Petitti was a leader in athletics as the Baseball team’s Catcher and Co-captain, and a member of the Varsity Club. Not only was Tony an athlete—he was also a sports fan. So much so, that he made it a career. For almost 2 decades, Tony has been a top figure in the world of sports television.

Tony was instrumental in the development of the unprecedented Bowl Championship Series, and in 1997 he was hired by Sean McManus, then president of CBS Sports, as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and Programming. Here, Tony was instrumental in the network’s re-acquisition of the NFL.

After a stint at New York’s WCBS-TV, Tony returned to CBS Sports in 1999 where today, he acts as Executive Vice President and Executive Producer of CBS Sports where he oversees daily operations and the acquisition of new programming, and maintains relationships with rights’ holders for: the NFL, the Super Bowl, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, the Masters, and the U.S. Open, among many others.

He has devoted countless volunteer hours to his role on the board of directors for the Youth Advocacy Center in New York, and as youth soccer coach and volunteer at The Hackley School.

The Haverford Award
Dr. Kent Campbell ’66 and Dr. Louis Miller ‘56
The Haverford Award supports and demonstrates the College’s expressed concern for the application of knowledge to socially useful ends. It seeks to identify, reward, and focus public attention on those alumni/ae who best reflect Haverford’s concern with the uses to which they put their knowledge, humanity, initiative, and individuality.

Both of the two recipients of this year’s Haverford Award have devoted their respective careers and life’s work to the research, control and treatment of malaria, the most widespread of tropical diseases.

Dr. Carlos C. (Kent) Campbell has been a leading authority on international public health and the control and
therapy of malaria for over 30 years. Kent began his professional career with the U.S. Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with most of his 21 years of service as the Chief of the Malaria Branch. His team at the CDC was instrumental in major advances in the therapy of drug resistant malaria, the impact of malaria on pregnant women and young infants, and in the demonstration of the effectiveness of insecticide-treated bednets. Following his service with CDC, he joined the faculty of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center where he served as the Interim Dean of the College.

In 2003 Kent began serving as a consultant to the “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Infectious Diseases Program” where he helped develop the Foundation’s program directions in support of malaria control in Africa. This work resulted in the funding of the “Malaria Control & Evaluation Partnership in Africa” of which he is currently the Director.

Kent has been awarded “The Meritorious Service Medal of the U.S. Public Health Service”, has served as the Senior Malaria Advisor for UNICEF based in New York City, has published over 150 peer reviewed articles in the fields of public health, maternal and child health, and malaria, and is President-elect of the “American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene”.

Dr. Louis Miller is a world-renowned malaria researcher. After graduating from Haverford College, Louis Miller went on to Columbia University and the medical school at Washington University, where he began his life work on malaria. In 1971, he came to the National Institute of Health (NIH) to head the malaria section of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases.

During his career, Louis has made important discoveries about how malaria parasites infect and survive in humans and mosquitoes. Of particular significance, Louis identified a molecule on red blood cells that gives the malaria parasite passage to invade and proliferate in the bloodstream. These molecules are now being tested for possible development into a malaria vaccine.

During the last 10 years, in response to the need for more effective tools in the face of drug resistance, Louis has led a program

in developing vaccines against the malarial parasite. Louis currently heads the malaria section of the “Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases” at the “National Institute of Health” in Bethesda, Md.

He is a previous recipient of many other prestigious awards and honors, including: The Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Disease Research; Election to the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine; The Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, and, from the Office of the President of the United States, the “The Presidential Award.”

Louis’ research has advanced the understanding of malaria at the molecular level, and is credited with providing hope that a cure may eventually be found for this devastating disease. He is a tireless advocate for applying that knowledge to benefit affected regions of the world.

For additional information on Alumni Awards, including past recipients, please see http://www.haverford.edu/alumni/awards/

Faculty Notes

Karin Akerfeldt, associate professor of chemistry, attended the Council of Undergraduate Research National Conference at DePauw University, June 22-27.

Professor of French Koffi Anyinefa traveled to the African Literature Association meeting in Accra, Ghana, May 16-20.

Lynne Butler, professor of mathematics, traveled to the Fourth International Conference on Permutation Patterns in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 12-16.

Rob Fairman, associate professor of biology, attended a meeting of the Protein Society in San Diego, Aug. 5-8.

Professor of Philosophy Ashok Gangadean traveled to the American Yoga College at the University of Arizona in Tucson, July 9, and the Language of Spirit conference in Albuquerque, Aug. 12-15.

Associate Professor of History James Krippner attended the Ornohundro Institute for Early American History Annual Conference in Quebec, June 7-10.

Emma Lapsansky-Werner, professor of history, attended the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists in Greensboro, N.C., June 23-25.

Associate Professor of Computer Science Steven Lindell participated in the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Programme Theme: Logic and Algorithms at the United Kingdom’s Cambridge University, May 22-June 1. He also attended a seminar on the cryptology and breaking of axis codes during World War II at England’s Bletchley Park, Aug. 1-4.

Wyatt MacGaffey, Emeritus John R. Coleman Professor of Social Sciences, published the article “Death of a king, death of a kingdom? Social pluralism and succession to high office in Dagbon, northern Ghana” in the Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 44 Issue 1.

Rob Mortimer, professor of political science, attended the Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (International Council of French-speaking Studies) in Paris, June 25-July 9.

Paul Jakov Smith, professor of history, wrote a chapter entitled “Irredentism as Political Capital: The New Policies and the Annexation of Tibetan Domains in Hehuang (the Qinghai-Gansu Highlands) under Shen Zong and his Sons, 1068-1126” for the book Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics, published by Harvard University.

Associate Professor of English Gustavus Stadler wrote the book Troubling Minds: The Cultural Politics of Genius in the United States, 1840-1890, published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Emeritus Professor of History Susan Mosher Stuard’s book Gilding the Market: Luxury and Fashion in 14th-century Italy was published by University of Pennsylvania Press.