The KINSC Scientific Imaging Contest is an annual competition for student-submitted images from experiments or simulations that are scientifically intriguing as well as aesthetically pleasing. Judging is based on both the quality of the image and the explanation of the underlying science.
KINSC Scientific Imaging Contest
Yixuan Zhou '20 won third place in the 2018 contest for "Fringes in a photoelastic particle when it was squeezed diametrically," a photo of research advised by Assistant Professor Ted Brzinski.
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Haverford College is conducting a search for its 16th president. Details
Smith, one of three Nobel laureates in chemistry this year, is the fourth Haverford College alum to win a Nobel Prize and the second—after Joseph Taylor Jr.—from the Class of 1963.
The political science major and Africana studies concentrator spent his summer in Atlanta, Ga., at the Carter Center, where he advised the former president’s organization on youth participation in local politics and researched issues relating to sexual and gender-based violence.
A recent party celebrated the relaunch of the College’s literary magazine as “Milkweed,” as well as the release of its spring 2018 issue.
A Haverford alum, Gerber is widely regarded as a major influencer of the modern classical music scene. Thanks to summer work with the Haverford Libraries by Alice Berry BMC ’19, his compositions have been given new life online.
This history course examines the history of the United States through its built environment—the physical spaces and landscapes through which Americans have constructed their habits, hopes and divisions in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Haverford alumni are stepping up as first-time political candidates, boldly challenging longtime incumbents and the political “machine” in their communities. For all, the decision to seek office is an effort to live their values. “If you feel something, don’t just throw your shoe at the TV,” says one. “Do something.”
The sculptor and animator works with found objects to turn the everyday into the masterful.
The Haverford Innovations Program held a panel devoted to the achievements of female entrepreneurs, two Bi-Co alumni among them.
Members of the Haverford community celebrated the publication of the first English-language translation of the Odyssey by a woman with a 10-hour-long public reading.
Organized by the Multicultural Alumni Action Group in partnership with student organization Haverford Votes, the panel featured alumni with diverse political backgrounds sharing the importance of next month’s elections.
Upcoming Events
Oct
22
"Poéticas, archivos y apuestas: estudios del Caribe"
Monday, October 22, 2018
4:15PM to 6:00PM
Bryn Mawr Room, Dining Center
Visiting Assistant Professors of Spanish Lina Martinez Hernandez and Giselle Roman Medina will give a faculty publication talk. The essays selected in Poéticas, archivos y apuestas reveal the threads behind constructs that try to reduce the Caribbean to either paradise or hell. Join the editors, Lina and Giselle, in a bilingual conversation about the reasons behind editing this anthology.
Oct
23
Music & Conversation with THE BRASS PROJECT
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
8:00PM to 9:00PM
Marshall Auditorium
The Brass Project is a brass sextet formed by leading players from the Curtis Institute of Music. These brass players united around a shared set of multifaceted goals: to expand the repertoire for chamber brass, to record and distribute new works, and to engage with a wide community through outreach and educational programs.
Oct
24
"Whitechapel Noise: Sex, Politics, and Religion on the Streets of London’s East End 1884-1914"
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
7:30PM to 9:30PM
Chase Auditorium
This talk with song by Vivi Lachs, Yiddishist, historian and performer from London, explores the abundance of Yiddish kupletn written by songwriters and poets in pre-World War I London. Penned by the famous and the unknown, they tell tales of an immigrant culture in flux. Part of the Yiddish Culture Festival.
Oct
25
Hot and Cold Gas in Galaxy Groups
Thursday, October 25, 2018
4:30PM to 6:00PM
Hilles 109
Distinguished Visitor Kelley Hess will talk about her research using radio telescopes to understand the hot and cold gas content of groups of galaxies in the nearby and distant Universe. Tea at 4:15 p.m.
Oct
25
CPGC Social Justice Film Series: "Food Chains"
Thursday, October 25, 2018
5:00PM to 8:00PM
Stokes Auditorium
Food Chains focuses on an intrepid and highly lauded group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida who are revolutionizing farm labor. Their story is one of hope and promise for the triumph of morality over corporate greed–to ensure a dignified life for farm workers and a more humane, transparent food chain. Join us for a shortened version of the film (run time: 35 minutes) followed by a conversation with invited panelists.
Oct
26
Family & Friends Weekend
Friday, October 26, 2018
9:00AM to 10:00PM
Entire Campus
Join us for Family & Friends Weekend. Visit hav.to/family to view the complete schedule of events.
Oct
26
"Death, Dying, Spiritual Health, and Migrant Communities in México"
Friday, October 26, 2018
1:00PM to 2:45PM
Chase Auditorium
M. Antonio López Galicia, this semester's Friend in Residence, will present his proposal for a spiritual humanistic framework for working with issues on death and dying rising out of his work with migrant communities as the director of the Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City.
Oct
26
"The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America" Opening Reception
Friday, October 26, 2018
4:30PM to 5:30PM
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Lounge
Opening Reception begins at 4:30 p.m. with introduction from Assistant Professor Lindsay Reckson. The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America, which runs through Dec. 16, presents the Equal Justice Initiative's groundbreaking research into the history of lynchings and connects it to digital media, documentary film, contemporary artworks, and archival materials.
Oct
26
"Edna Lewis: Chef and Humanitarian" Opening Reception
Friday, October 26, 2018
5:00PM to 7:00PM
Atrium Gallery, Marshall Fine Art Center
Edna Lewis was a leader of the revival and rediscovery of the regional culinary delights of the South. Haverford College celebrates Lewis’ legacy with an exhibit of 40 black-and-white and color photos of Lewis by John T. Hill, a close friend and photographer who made the portrait that adorns her first cookbook, alongside Lewis’ own family photographs, articles on southern cooking, and her books.
Oct
26
"Radical Hospitality Across Culture: Migration, the Border, and the Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City"
Friday, October 26, 2018
5:00PM to 6:30PM
Stokes 102
How do we welcome other people and talk about challenging issues across cultural and philosophical difference? Come hear from Friend in Residence M. Antonio López Galicia, the executive director of Casa de los Amigos, about their timely work.
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