Through the Tri-College Consortium, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore students take classes at all three schools and frequently collaborate on extracurricular activities.
The new Tri-Co Philly Program is a semester-long, non-residential program that provides students both curricular and co-curricular activities in nearby Philadelphia.
The urban setting of Philadelphia provides a sense of place to enhance the classroom experience, helping students learn firsthand how the material in the courses is informed by the environment around them.
Haverford attracts intellectually curious, independent learners who value honesty, collaboration, and above all, new ways of seeing and improving the world.
As you perform real-world research and immerse yourself in hands-on learning, you'll work side-by-side with professors who are at the top of their fields.
Our mascot—the Black Squirrel—has a genetic adaptation that gives it a bold, black coat. Join our distinctive community and stand out from the pack with your fellow Haverfordians.
The biology major from Sunnyvale, Calif., will spend next year at the University of Oslo in Norway, researching a toxic polypeptide associated with ALS and Frontotemporal Dementia in a cellular model.
Stephen Lippard ’62 returned to campus to talk about his time at Haverford and career with Ted Love ’81, students, and faculty.
Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.
The English major will spend the year after his Haverford graduation traveling to four continents to explore communities through their barbershops thanks to the $30,000 award.
The College received a record number of applications this year and offered admission to 801 students.
This philosophy course addresses questions such as,“What is technology?” “Do we control technological innovation or does technology in some sense control us?” and “Does our entanglement in a technological world hinder or help us in communicating with one another?”
On May 18, the College will award honorary degrees to GLAD Civil Rights Project Director Mary L. Bonauto and actor, director, producer, and alum Daniel Dae Kim ’90.
Mohamed Ali ’22 created a robotic prosthetic hand in the College's Maker Space.
Jonah Salz ’78 was grappling with end-stage kidney disease, facing 12 hours of dialysis a week and a long wait for a donor kidney. Then classmate Rick Rybeck stepped forward and changed his life.
With plenty of jars and brine to go around, the brand new Bi-Co Pickling Team aims to spread pickling skills and conversation across campuses.
Mar
26
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
Chase Auditorium
The number of private schools in the US approximately doubled in the decade after the Supreme Court ruled against public school segregation. Scholars have recently identified this phenomenon as part of the birth pangs of the modern Religious Right: explicitly motivated by anxiety over secularization but implicitly motivated by anxiety over racial integration. This talk by Distinguished Visitor Vincent Lloyd will explore the ambivalent Quaker response to this rapidly shifting landscape.
Mar
26
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
4:30PM to 6:30PM
VCAM Create Space Lounge
Join members of People’s Paper Co-op and Reentry Think Tank for the opening reception of their pop-up exhibition and conversation about the creative solutions these organizations deploy in transforming the stereotypes, social services, and platforms that impact our lives and communities.
Mar
26
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
VCAM 201
Distinguished Visitor Manu Karuka's book, Empire’s Tracks, boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path.
Mar
27
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
11:00AM to 12:00PM
Facilities Conference Room
Learn the basic principles of beekeeping in this introductory workshop with Eli St. Armour. If you have ever been interested in beekeeping now is the time to start this fun and environmentally sustainable hobby! Registration is required: call (610) 896-1102 or email jciborowsk@haverford.edu. Members, students, and faculty $10 | Non-members $15.
Mar
27
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
12:30PM to 2:30PM
Stokes Auditorium
Gene Demby is the lead blogger and co-host of NPR's Code Switch, which explores "the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting."
Mar
27
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
Hilles 109
Distinguished Visitor Cara Nine received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Arizona and her B.A. in philosophy from Carleton College. Her work mainly focuses on issues in justice and location, or how one's location (residence, territorial citizenship, etc) can affect what is owed to that person as a matter of justice.
Mar
27
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
7:00PM to 9:30PM
Chase Auditorium
Join us for a performance and Q&A with writer and storyteller Nimisha Ladva. Her stories have been broadcast on NPR’s Newsworks and CommonSpace programs. In July 2018, her story, “An American Family,” was anthologized in The RISK! Book: True Stories People Never Thought They’d Dare to Share.
Mar
28
Thursday, March 28, 2019
7:30PM to 9:30PM
Sharpless Auditorium
Keynote address by Simone Browne for the 2019 Mellon Symposium, "Subverting the State’s Policing Gaze: Genealogies of Surveillance." This symposium, convened by Aniko Szucs, will bring together scholars from various disciplines to interrogate genealogies and technologies of surveillance in a comparative, transnational context, and will ask how the histories of state control and control societies inform contemporary surveillance practices.
Mar
29
Friday, March 29, 2019
9:00AM to 6:00PM
VCAM 201
The 2019 Mellon Symposium, convened by Aniko Szucs, will bring together scholars from various disciplines to interrogate genealogies and technologies of surveillance in a comparative, transnational context, and will ask how the histories of state control and control societies inform contemporary surveillance practices.
Mar
29
Friday, March 29, 2019
1:30PM to 2:30PM
Gest 101
A talk by Distinguished Visitor and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Sean Kelsey.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.