Our campus has 200 acres of award-winning architecture and landscaping; more than 50 academic, athletic, and residential buildings; and a nationally recognized arboretum with 400 species of trees and shrubs, a 3.5-acre duck pond, gardens, and wooded areas.
The Campus
The arboretum renewal program reached its goal of planting 300 trees on campus by the end of 2019. The 300th tree planted this year by the arboretum staff is a dawn redwood (Metasequoia) and can be found by the Walton Road entrance to the campus. Photo: Patrick Montero.
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Character
Haverford attracts intellectually curious, independent learners who value honesty, collaboration, and above all, new ways of seeing and improving the world.
Mind
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.
Squirrels
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.
Haverford Headlines
The exhibit in the Jane Lutnick Fine Arts Center features a selection of photographs recently acquired by the Haverford College Photo Collection.
This religion course introduces students to debates about the senses in Islam, including exploring the relationship between sound and the sacred.
This co-taught linguistics course, which explores five issues in which modality effects might be evidenced in Mandarin and American Sign Language, is experimental, as the professors and students form and test hypotheses against data together.
Computer science major Isabella Muno ’21, who recently attended the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Detroit to explore possibilities for her own campus-created startup, writes about what she learned there.
This biology course for non-majors explores how human activities impact Earth’s climate and, in turn, all living things on the planet.
Sponsored by Haverford Innovations Program and Swarthmore’s Center for Innovation and Leadership, a daylong workshop led by Alexandra Wolkoff ’14 from Puentes de Salud gave participants direction on how to support Latinx immigrant communities in Philadelphia.
The Fall 2018 iteration of the “Impact Investing” course chose to support Vega Coffee, a direct-trade venture whose products are now available in the Coop and new Library Cafe.
This English course introduces students to the early English novel, as well as to the tradition of scholarship that seeks to explain its origins.
Founded in 2018, Haverford’s Step team isn’t afraid to be heard.
This music course examines musical change over a thousand-year span, uncovering how—and why—Western music evolved from a monastic ritual of plain, unaccompanied song into a secular entertainment for elite audiences in modern cities.
Upcoming Events
Nov
20
"Amniotechnics: Do Electric Sheep Dream of Water Babies?"
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
4:15PM to 5:45PM
Gest 101
Somewhere in Philadelphia, artificial wombs are gestating sheep fetuses. Humans are next. This project explores miraculous clinical developments involving growing sheep fetuses in plastic bags, or “bio-bags.” These technologies have the potential to realize the old dream of the artificial womb, they also force us to return to an old question: Why would we want to automate gestation in the first place? Sophie Lewis is a professor at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, a writer, theorist, and translator.
Nov
20
Rescheduled for 11/20: Technology and Justice Artist Talk with Mimi Onuoha
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
VCAM 102
Mimi Onuoha is a Nigerian-American artist and researcher whose work highlights the social relationships and power dynamics behind data collection. Technology and Justice 2019-20 focuses on the ethics of technological adoption and adaptations, inviting technologists, academics, activists, and artists to examine issues from algorithmic decision-making in the criminal justice system to the near constant surveillance of our actions to the future of work in an automated world.
Nov
21
"From Across the Waters: Voices for Immigration"
Thursday, November 21, 2019
6:30PM to 8:30PM
Lutnick 200
What can words do in response to animosity and violence, often targeting immigrants and refugees? In the wake of last year's Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, writers Olga Livshin and Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach started the reading series From Across the Waters: Voices for Immigration. Now a year strong, the series presents immigrants and allies of immigrants writing across genres about immigration in today's America.
Nov
21
"Windows and Walls: Discovering and Asserting Personal Boundaries"
Thursday, November 21, 2019
7:00PM to 9:00PM
Founders Common Room
We hear a lot these days about the importance of setting boundaries. But we don't always know what our boundaries are. In our individualistic culture, how do we assert boundaries while still maintaining mutualistic, empathetic relationships? In this workshop, we use a series of prompts to explore our emotional and physical boundaries in a variety of contexts. After identifying some of our boundaries, we will work on the important skill of expressing them.
Nov
22
Fall Orchestra Concert
Friday, November 22, 2019
8:00PM to 9:30PM
Marshall Auditorium
The Haverford-Bryn Mawr College Orchestra, conducted by Heidi Jacob, will perform their fall concert. The program will include William Grant Still’s Miniature Overture and The Peaceful Land, Ulvi Cemal Erkin’s Lively Dance from Aegean Spring arranged by Kathryn Woodard, and selections from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suites #1 and #2.
Nov
25
Launch: Pedagogics of Liberation and LÁPIZ Journal
Monday, November 25, 2019
4:15PM to 7:00PM
Stokes Auditorium
LAPES promotes the dissemination of Latin American education philosophies and practices by facilitating South-South and North-South dialogue among scholars, teachers, students and activists through its symposia, journal, and publications. In this, it works to overcome the binary between liberatory education theory and practice, and it seeks to work with others who are actively engaged in anticapitalist, antiracist, decolonial, feminist, anti-imperialist, and LGBTQ+ liberation sturggles.
Dec
4
His Wife’s Lover (1931)
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
7:30PM to 10:00PM
Chase Auditorium
Billed as the “first Jewish musical comedy talking picture” this farce combines ribald romantic comedy, music and the gifted tummler Ludwig Satz (who prefigures Sid Caesar and Jerry Lewis). Directed by Sidney M.Goldin. Film restoration & new English subtitles by The National Center for Jewish Film. In Yiddish with English subtitles (80 minutes–we last showed this in 2005). Part of the Yiddish Culture Festival.
Dec
5
Distinguished Visitor Allyn Gaestel '09
Thursday, December 5, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
VCAM 201
Distinguished Visitor Allyn Gaestel '09, photographer and freelance journalist Tea at 4:15 p.m.
Dec
5
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Science and Space Policy in the Current Era
Thursday, December 5, 2019
4:30PM to 6:00PM
KINSC H109
Dr. Kelsie Krafton, John N. Bahcall Public Policy Fellow, American Astronomical Society (AAS) will provide an overview of the current political environment for science and space policy, which current events are dominating policy discussions in the astronomical sciences, the role of the AAS in such discussions, the role of the AAS in advocating for the astronomical sciences in Washington, and what individual scientists can do to effectively engage in the political process.
Dec
6
Public Observing
Friday, December 6, 2019
7:30PM to 9:30PM
Strawbridge Observatory
These events include observing though one or more of our telescopes (weather permitting), activities for children, and a student-led talk on a topic in astronomy. This event takes place rain or shine.
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