Wendy Raymond, a distinguished molecular biologist with national standing on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, will be Haverford's 16th president. She was a professor at Williams College for 19 years and is currently vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Davidson College.
Wendy Raymond will become Haverford's 16th President on July 1, 2019. Photo: Patrick Montero
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Raymond, a distinguished molecular biologist with national standing on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, will become Haverford's 16th president on July 1, 2019. She was a professor at Williams College for 19 years and is currently vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Davidson College.
In a continuation of hallowed campus wintertime tradition, Lloyd residents have decked their halls for a are competing to create the best doorway holiday display competition.
The biology major combined her passion for drawing comics and experience in science with an exhibition of autobiographical comics in the Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center (KINSC).
Students in Kimiko Suzuki’s “Advanced Japanese” course took their learning beyond the classroom by collaborating with Philadelphia artists to produce the dyed textiles on display in VCAM.
Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.
A recent symposium related to the current Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery exhibit united scholars, artists, activists, and curators in a discussion of the history of lynching, antiracist activism, and the role of contemporary art in visualizing and confronting racial violence.
This sociology class introduces students to the social forces that shape the production of scientific knowledge and technological devices.
This history class is an in-depth analysis of Vietnamese history and the country’s struggles for independence and national unification from antiquity to the present day, and it includes an oral history project with members of the “Viet Nam Generation” as a core component.
The Haverford physics professor and the physics major co-authored a paper in PLOS ONE describing findings about the biomechanics of peafowl crests during social displays.
Following the success of last year’s “Taste of Guangdong,” the student-run club continues to celebrate different Chinese cuisine traditions via annual dinners.
Dec
10
Monday, December 10, 2018
7:30PM to 9:00PM
VCAM 201
Distinguished Visitor Sarah E. Bond is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa, and the author of Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, October 2016) and numerous articles and volume chapters. She is also committed to outreach and has been a regular contributor to Forbes.com and Hyperallergic.com.
Dec
11
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
4:30PM to 6:00PM
VCAM Screening Room
Raquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia and a CantoMundo Fellow. Their work has appeared in journals such as the Revista del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Apogee, McSweeney’s, Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, and has been featured on the Academy of American Poets website.
Dec
13
Thursday, December 13, 2018
2:30PM to 4:30PM
VCAM 106
Learn science and be engaged. Student pairs will be giving a series of short presentations (5 min short pieces) on a diversity of topics related to human impacts in the marine environment and solutions for engaging both the local and broader communities in efforts to solve or mitigate human impacts in a diverse array of ecosystems.
Dec
13
Thursday, December 13, 2018
8:00PM to 9:00PM
Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium
The Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, directed by Nathan Zullinger, will perform their Annual Winter Concert, featuring complete Mid-Winter Songs by Lauridsen, with works by Hassler, Kopylov, Kirchner, and Pfautsch, plus the premiere of a new work by St. Louis-based composer Zachary Cairns.
Dec
14
Friday, December 14, 2018
6:00PM to 8:00PM
Zubrow Commons, KINSC
The Oxford Blues are Haverford's longest standing all-women a Capella group. They hope to bring a passion for music and performance to their group members and the rest of the Haverford Community.
Dec
17
Monday, December 17, 2018
7:30PM to 9:15PM
Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium
The Haverford-Bryn Mawr College Chamber Music program, directed by Heidi Jacob, presents the first of two Fall Concerts featuring music by Peter Schickele, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Lili Boulanger, Leopoldine Blahetka, Germain Tailleferre, and George Gershwin.
Dec
18
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
7:30PM to 8:30PM
Bryn Mawr College, Goodhart Music Room
The Haverford-Bryn Mawr College Chamber Music program, directed by Heidi Jacob, presents the second of two Fall Concerts. The program features music by Arthur Foote, Dvorak, Schumann, Milhaud, and Faure.
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.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.