Charlie Marquardt ’16 was a Haverford first-year when he began a dogged quest to join the top ranks of the running world. Six years later, he finally reached his goal.
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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.
The former astrophysics major, now pursuing a Ph.D. in astronomy, has turned her undergraduate thesis research into a published article.
The Professor of Biology and Coordinator of the Concentration in Biochemistry and Biophysics has been awarded a $211,536 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his research on Chlamydomonas, a single-celled model organism that provides insight into the cell biology of many eukaryotes, including humans.
This course address issues of linguistic diversity, experiences of difference, and power structures as they relate to the perception and use of language, and struggles for justice in linguistic context.
Led by Panos Panidis ’09 and sponsored by the Center for Career and Professional Advising and Haverford Innovations Program, this series of workshops equipped Haverford students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in the data-driven, digitally dependent workplace.
Back for a third straight year, the Tri-Co Hackathon drew 11 teams of students to design computer programs in just 24 hours.
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Karen Masters collaborates with Oxford Professor Chris Lintott, whom she recently brought to campus, on Galaxy Zoo, an award-winning data-gathering project that asks the public to help identify features and structures in images of galaxies.
Upcoming Events
Mar
18
“Understanding Sexual Violence on College Campuses”
Monday, March 18, 2019
4:15PM to 6:15PM
Gest 101
Distinguished Visitor Shamus Khan '00 works primarily within the areas of cultural sociology and stratification, with a strong focus on elites. Most recently Khan has been working on the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT), which seeks to understand sexual health and sexual violence at the Columbia and Barnard communities, and beyond.
Mar
19
Tears the Civil Servant Cannot See: Levinas on Ethics and Politics
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
VCAM 201
A talk by Distinguished Visitor Michael Morgan, Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies, Indiana University and Senator Jerahmiel S. and Carole S. Grafstein Chair in the Department of Philosophy and Jewish Studies, University of Toronto.
Mar
20
Strange Truth: QUEST
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
7:00PM to 9:30PM
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Directed by Jonathan Olshefski and produced by Sabrina Schmidt Gordon. Filmed with vérité intimacy for nearly a decade, QUEST is the moving portrait of the Rainey family living in North Philadelphia. A conversation with Jonathan Olshefski, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, and Christopher “Quest” Rainey will follow the screening. hav.to/strangetruth
Mar
20
Gnome Home Terrarium Workshop
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
7:00PM to 8:30PM
Facilities Conference Room
Celebrate the first day of spring by building a magical, mossy world that is home to a gnome! Get creative in this make and take workshop by designing a garden terrarium out of moss, ferns, stones, soil and more. Adorn your terrarium by painting a gnome home and let your miniature resident move in! Join us for a fun night out of planting and crafting, all supplies will be provided! Registration is required—please call (610) 896-1102 or email jciborowsk@haverford.edu. Members & Students $20 | Non-members $25.
Mar
21
Strange Truth: BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez
Thursday, March 21, 2019
7:00PM to 10:00PM
VCAM Screening Room
Directed by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon. As a pioneer of spoken word poetry, Sonia Sanchez's influence on hip hop is fundamental. But her tireless commitment to justice for all people has come at a personal cost. A conversation with Sabrina Schmidt Gordon will follow the screening. hav.to/strangetruth
Mar
22
"Molly Crabapple & Marwan Hisham: Syria in Ink" Opening Talk & Reception
Friday, March 22, 2019
4:30PM to 7:30PM
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
Molly Crabapple & Marwan Hisham: Syria in Ink includes over 50 original drawings by artist Molly Crabapple and the voice of author and journalist Marwan Hisham. With pen and brush, together they capture Syria from before its precipitous fall to its current state of crisis and mass displacement.
Mar
25
Jason Lutes: Berlin
Monday, March 25, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
VCAM 001 Screening Room
Join Distinguished Visitor Jason Lutes for a talk on Berlin. During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism.
Mar
25
Affective Justice: Rethinking the Survivor v. Perpetrator Refrain in International Criminal Law
Monday, March 25, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
Chase Auditorium
Discussion between Distinguished Visitor Kamari Clarke, professor of international and global studies, Carleton University and Sara Kendall, senior lecturer in law, University of Kent, UK.
Mar
25
Home Fires Burning: Mothers, Motherland and Return to Postconflict Liberia
Monday, March 25, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
VCAM 201
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Liberia and over one hundred and eighty interviews, Distinguished Visitor Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso investigates how women’s intersectional identities together with local and international agencies and systems, co-construct returnee women’s imbricated experiences of ‘home’, and ultimately, shape their lives, their reintegration, and their nation.
Mar
26
"The Racist Origins of Christian Education"
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.
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