Gardner Center Wins Praise at Clinton Global Initiative
The campus is buzzing happily about the newly opened (October 17) Douglas B. Gardner ’83 Integrated Athletic Center. But former President Bill Clinton was ahead of the curve and recognized The Doug's “green” qualities at the inaugural Clinton Global Initiative Conference, held in New York City in mid-September. Haverford president Tom Tritton traveled to New York to accept the accolades.
The nonpartisan conference brought together a diverse and select group of current and former heads of state, business leaders, noteworthy academicians, and key NGO representatives participating in a series of dynamic, interactive workshops. The conference focused on the best methods to reduce poverty; to implement new business strategies and technologies to combat climate change; and to strengthen governance.
As Haverford, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and The Turner Corporation were singled out for their environmentally conscious efforts, Clinton announced a series of commitments aimed at transforming the way buildings in schools across the United States are designed and operated in order to reduce their energy consumption, environmental impact, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
President Tritton has enacted a building policy at Haverford stating that all new construction will be environmentally friendly. If the Gardner Center passes the USGBC’s stringent approval process, the 100,000-square-foot facility will be the largest athletic building in the U.S. to achieve certification under the organization’s LEED Green Building Rating System.

Haverford Biology Professor is Awarded Prestigious Fellowship
Assistant Professor of Biology Iruka Okeke has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Science and Society Foundation of Zurich, Switzerland. She was one of only three international scholars to receive the Branco Weiss Fellowship in 2004, traditionally given to researchers in the life sciences whose work can be viewed through a social and cultural context.
Okeke will receive up to five years of support from the Foundation for her research on drug resistance of the E. coli bacterium, specifically for a proposal titled Antimicrobial Resistance in West Africa: Magnitude and Containment. “The fellowship supports my studies of the nature, mechanism, and predisposing factors for the spread of genetic material encoding resistance in E. coli from West Africa,” she says.
The Science and Society Foundation provides assistance to researchers in the natural sciences whose work extends to include social and cultural perspectives, and Okeke is no exception. “The emergence and spread of resistant bacteria is promoted by human activities,” she says. “I am interested in identifying human determinants that may encourage the spread of resistant bacteria, particularly in developing countries. Ultimately, my research is aimed at working with affected communities to identify practicable and acceptable interventions for resistance control.”
Okeke joined Haverford’s faculty in 2002. Previously, she was a career development lecturer in the department of biomedical sciences at the University of Bradford, UK, with a research specialty in molecular epidemiology and the pathogenesis of E. coli. She is an advisor to the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA) International.

Commencement 2005
Four distinguished individuals in the arts, sciences, education, and human rights were awarded honorary degrees during Haverford’s 2005 Commencement ceremonies: Antonia Hernandez, president and CEO of the California Community Foundation; Molly Ivins, nationally syndicated political columnist; Dave Matthews, South African vocalist/guitarist; and Juan Williams ’76, senior correspondent, National Public Radio, and contributing political analyst, Fox News.
In their brief speeches, all four recipients included words of wisdom and inspiration. Adding to Hernandez’s urgent “go forth and make a difference” message, Ivins pled the case for having fun in the process. Matthews explained his own personal preferences for prayer, finding beauty and peace in everyday “undamaged” things. Williams related a heartfelt anecdote about Thurgood Marshall and his fight against segregation.

Gollub Elected to Council of National Academy of Sciences
Jerry P. Gollub, Professor of Physics and John and Barbara Bush Professor of Natural Sciences at Haverford College, has been elected to the governing Council of the National Academy of Sciences. He was one of four scientists selected by members of the Academy in a national election.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. The Academy’s Council, composed of 12 members (councilors) and five officers, is responsible to the membership for the activities undertaken by the organization and for the corporate management of the National Academy of Sciences, which includes the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the National Research Council (NRC).
Gollub has been a member of the Academy since 1993, and serves on the Steering Committee of the National Research Council Math/Science Partnerships Project. He previously served as co-chair of the NRC Committee on Programs for Advanced High School Science and Mathematics Education. From 1995-2000 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the National Science Resources Center, developers of primary school science curricula affiliated with the National Academy.
A member of Haverford’s faculty since 1970, Gollub has pioneered research in the fields of chaos and non-linear dynamics, fluid dynamics, and condensed matter physics. In 1984, he was selected as a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and in 1985 he was the first recipient of the American Physical Society's Award for Research in an Undergraduate Institution. He won an international "Science for Art" Award in 1994.

Jess H. Lord is New Dean of Admission and Financial Aid
Haverford College appointed Jess H. Lord to the position of Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, effective July 1, 2005. Lord most recently was Senior Associate Dean of Admissions at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. The appointment came after a comprehensive national search process that started last fall and that engaged students, faculty, administrators, alumni, and Board members.
“Jess impressed everyone in the community with the depth of his knowledge, his commitment to liberal arts education, and his ready understanding of the special virtues of Haverford,” said Thomas R. Tritton, president of the College.
Lord worked in admissions at Pomona since August 1999, and managed the day-to-day operations of the office since June 2001. In addition to his regular travel workload, application evaluation and assessment, and interviewing, Lord was involved in the overall processes of admission policy and decision-making for Pomona, including issues such as the recruitment and enrollment of students of color, the integration of technology with all facets of the admission process, and managing a large-scale computer conversion project. He also has had direct involvement with hiring of all staff, served on a college-wide Web site redesign team, and supervised the publications committee. He also coordinated office travel and oversaw international admissions.
Prior to Pomona, Lord was an admission officer (1994-1996), assistant director (1996-1999) and associate director (1999) in the Brown University Office of Admission.
“I am honored by the opportunity to serve the Haverford College community as the next Dean of Admission and Financial Aid,” Lord said. “I have long held deep admiration for Haverford and the special place it holds in the spectrum of higher education, and I am enormously excited to join this community myself.”
Lord is a graduate of Westtown School and continued his education at Brown, where he earned a B.A. in Modern European History, with significant coursework in literature, religious studies, and international relations. He is a member of the Hartford (Conn.) Monthly Meeting and attended the Orange Grove (Pasadena, Calif.) Monthly Meeting. His wife, Andrea Nuneviller, a Souderton, Pa., native and Brown University graduate, was a middle school teacher at the Polytechnic School in Pasadena. They have a daughter, Emma, 2.

Aaron Rabinowitz ’03 Wins Mitchell Scholarship
Aaron Rabinowitz ’03 was selected as one of 12 nationwide recipients of the 2005-2006 George J. Mitchell Scholarship. Aaron was chosen from 220 applicants representing 166 colleges and universities. He will study economics at the National University of Ireland in Galway.
At Haverford, Aaron majored in economics and was captain of the baseball team. He began aspiring to a career in health policy after witnessing the stark differences between the patient care his younger brother received during a heart transplant and his undergraduate experiences traveling to Cuba with the College’s baseball team. Today, Aaron remains active in spreading awareness of the need for organ donation among college students.
Launched in 1998 with an endowment from the Government of Ireland, the Mitchell Scholarship recognizes outstanding young Americans who exhibit the highest standards of academic excellence, leadership, and community service. The Scholarship, administered by the US-Ireland Alliance, is named in honor of the pivotal role the former U.S. Senator from Maine played in the Northern Ireland peace process.


Two Fords Awarded Watson Fellowships
Kira Intrator ’05, of Ferney-Voltaire, France, and Chris Kingsley ’05, of Portland, Maine, have been awarded Thomas J. Watson Fellowships for 2005-2006. The fellowships provide funding for one year of independent study and travel outside the United States. Participating institutions, of which there are 49, may nominate four candidates each year. The most recent year in which Haverford had two Watsons was 2001. In all, 50 college seniors across the country were chosen for Watson Fellowships this year.
Kira Intrator will be studying indigenous musical forms—specifically classical Islamic and Hindustani vocal techniques—in Egypt, Turkey, and India. She wants to incorporate these techniques with jazz singing, her main passion. “The tones are more delicate and subtle, and singers use vocal trills and half-notes that aren’t heard in Western music,” she says. “It will be amazing to apply this sound to my jazz singing.”
Intrator’s father is a jazz violinist, so the genre, she says, “permeated every crevice of my house” growing up: “I was singing Billie Holiday songs at age five.”
Her fascination with multicultural music was stoked during the summer following her sophomore year, when she used a Kessinger Family Fund grant to travel to Morocco. “I was always interested in Islam and its culture,” she says, “not just what I read in books, but its everyday life.” While abroad, she attended music festivals and was awed by the blending of Moroccan music with that of other countries such as Senegal.
During the second semester of her junior year, she took a break from Haverford and went to Boston, where she took jazz singing lessons at Berklee College of Music and audited a course at Harvard focusing on ethnomusicology through Islamic music. She was shown raw footage of Islamic music festivals and knew then and there that someday she would witness them in person.
“Music is a way for me to discover myself, and also to delve into another culture,” she says. “It gives me a true taste of that way of life.”
Chris Kingsley ’05, a Growth and Structure of Cities major (at Bryn Mawr) will be traveling to South Africa, India, and Hong Kong to study the public rationale for Internet usage. Aside from Canada, Kingsley has never been outside the U.S.
Internet access is a theme Kingsley explored in his senior thesis on “Wireless Philadelphia,” a project being pursued by Mayor John Street’s administration. Announced in August 2004, the initiative would provide free wireless access for anyone within the city limits (135 square miles) within two years. “It’s a very interesting concept because everyone needs connectivity,” Kingsley says, “and it brings up issues of e-government and how cities are run.”
It also brings up issues of socioeconomic disparity and access to public resources. Kingsley took off four years before attending Haverford and lived in Florida, North Carolina, and Chicago—and witnessed some startlingly hollow inner-city neighborhoods. In Philadelphia, he has been able to draw parallels to that experience. “In Rittenhouse Square you will have people taking advantage of wireless access,” he explains, “and in West Philly you’ll be hard pressed in some neighborhoods to find a computer.” Similarly, Kingsley has taken an interest in Johannesburg, where some impressive, progressive projects are underway, as compared to nearby Soweto, “where you’d be lucky to find running water.”
In addition to technological disparities, Kingsley has witnessed the poverty, despair, and racial divisiveness—as well as the drugs and violence—that beset many inner-city communities. At Haverford, he has found the kind of community he'd like to explore and foster elsewhere in the world. "I just love the public spirit of Haverford," he says.

 

Faculty Notes
Associate Professor of Music Ingrid Arauco’s composition, “Trio for alto saxophone, viola, piano,” was performed last spring at Temple University, Symphony Space in New York City, and Haverford College. Her piece “Triptych for solo piano” was included on the recording Millennium Crossings – Incroci di Millennio, Piano Music: 1975-2000, released in late 2004.
Marilyn Boltz, professor of psychology, presented her paper “The cognitive interplay of film and musical soundtracks” at a meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition at Northwestern University, Aug. 4-8. She also attended the meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Minneapolis Nov. 18-21, where she gave a paper titled “Response latencies and social impression formation.”
Stephen Boughn, professor of astronomy, wrote the article “Further Evidence for Dark Energy in the Universe” for the newsletter of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).
Professor of Mathematics Lynne Butler attended the Retrospective in Combinatorics Conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 22-26. She gave an invited talk, “On the area of cylic polygons.”
Ruth Marshall Magill Professor of Music Curt Cacioppo gave a series of performances abroad in Germany and Italy during October. In Germany he appeared at the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg with bass-baritone Michael Riley in a program of his vocal music, including selections from the new art songs he is writing on poems by the contemporary German-American Friedrich Thiel. He then gave a lecture/recital on his piano music at the Folkwang Hochschule für Musik, also performing the music of colleagues Joseph Hudson and Haverford Associate Professor of Music and Music Department Chair Ingrid Arauco. Riley and Cacioppo recorded at the Folkwang Musikhochschule and gave a concert together in Mülheim. In Italy Cacioppo gave four concerts in collaboration with composers Joe Hudson of the Conservatory at SUNY Purchase and Italian maestro Marino Baratello, and pianist Lisa Weiss of Goucher College to promote their new CD Millennium Crossings – Incroci di Millennio. The tour included performances in Venice, Trieste, Treviso, and a final appearance at the Teatro Cimarosa in Aversa, near Naples. A statement from the US Consul General in Naples Suneta Halliburton introduced the last concert, which was recorded by RAI radio and TV for subsequent broadcast.
Rebecca Compton, assistant professor of psychology, attended the Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Nov. 18-21.
Professor of Music Richard Freedman attended the National Meeting of the American Musicological Society in Seattle, Nov. 10-14. He serves as chair of the society’s Chapter Fund Committee.
Professor of Philosophy Ashok Gangadean participated in the Parliament of Religions in Barcelona, Spain July 7-12, where he presided over four sessions; and the Annual World Future Society meeting in Washington, D.C., July 31-Aug. 3, where he co-led “Futureum: World Town Meetings 2020 and Direct Consensus Democracy (Parts I and II).”
Linda Gerstein, professor of history, attended the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Dec. 5-7 in Boston.
Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies Hank Glassman traveled to the American Academy of Religion Annual National Meeting in San Antonio, Nov. 19-23.
Shizhe Huang, assistant professor of Chinese and linguistics, attended the 12th Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics in Tianjin, China, June 18-20.
Professor of History Emma Lapsansky-Werner attended a meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association in Bethlehem, Pa., Oct. 21-23.
Steven Lindell, associate professor of computer science, gave a talk titled “Revisiting finite-visit computations” at the 2004 Conference on Computational Complexity at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 21-24.
A composition by Associate Professor of Music Tom Lloyd titled “Leaves of Grass—Ode to America, texts by Walt Whitman, for unaccompanied mixed choir,” premiered in June in St. Petersburg, Russia and Tallinn, Estonia, performed by the Bucks County Choral Society (of which Lloyd is Artistic Director). Lloyd also led the Bucks County Choral Society and the Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges on the recording The Wishing Tree—The Choral Music of Robert Maggio, released in 2004.
Professor of Political Science Rob Mortimer attended the Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones in Liége, Belgium, June 19-23. He presented a paper about Yasmina Khadra, a former officer in the Algerian army who has written about the role of the army in the Algerian political crisis of the 1990s, and also traveled to Algeria to conduct further research on the country’s political system.
Zolani Noonan-Ngwane, assistant professor of anthropology, attended the African Studies Association Annual Conference in New Orleans, Nov. 11-14.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Alex Norquist presented a poster detailing the structures and properties of new metal sulfates—studied this year by him and his students—at the Gordon Research Conference on Solid State Chemistry at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., July 25-30.
Iruka Okeke, assistant professor of biology, was awarded a Branco Weiss Fellowship from the Science and Society Foundation of Zurich, Switzerland. The fellowship is traditionally given to researchers in the life sciences whose work can be viewed through a social and cultural context.
Associate Professor of Economics Anne Preston’s book Leaving Science: Occupational Exit from Scientific Careers Between 1965 and 1995 has been published by the Russell Sage Foundation Publications.
Rob Scarrow, professor of chemistry, attended the Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry Gordon Conference at Bates College in Maine, June 20-26. He contributed a poster representing his work on the X-ray spectroscopy of manganese and iron in the enzyme lipoxygenase.
Associate Professor of German Ulrich Schönherr had the following articles published: “When the pictures learned to hear: Music, Avantgarde Aesthetics and Gender in Wim Wenders’ Lisbon Story” in the journal Monatshefte, Vol. 96 Issue 2; “Adorno and Jazz: Reflections on a Failed Encounter” in Theodor W. Adorno, Ed. Gerard Delanty, Vol. 2 ‘Aesthetic Theory;’ “Adorno, Tradition, and the Postmodern,” in Theodor W. Adorno, Ed. Gerard Delanty, Vol. 4 ‘Cultural Theory and the Postmodern Challenge;’ “- ‘I am lost to the World’ – The Locus of Music in Gert Jonke’s Work” in Gerhard Melzer/Paul Pechmann (eds.), Sprachmusik. Grenzgänge der Literatur; and “‘To be delivered in the world, hard by the tall thorn hedge, at the limit of reason:’ Notes on Gert Jonke’s Choral Fantasy” (afterword), in Gert Jonke, Chorphantasie.

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