The astronomy major is a good fit for students who want an in-depth education in astronomy that can be applied to a range of careers. Our faculty work at the cutting edge of modern astronomy and cosmology, creating exceptional research opportunities for majors.
Astronomy at Haverford
At 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 26, Haverford's Strawbridge Observatory will participate in the Franklin Institute's Citywide Star Party by hosting a family-friendly public observing event rain or shine. Photo: Sarah Jennings '21.
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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.
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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.
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This religion course is an examination of some of the remarkable—and highly controversial—activities in which Quakers engaged as they tried to provide assistance to Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis.
Yuchao Wang ’20, Rui Fang ’18, and Yabin Lu ’18 co-authored a paper in PLOS ONE with Professor of Physics and Astronomy Suzanne Amador Kane on the biological physics of the color of peacock feathers.
The pinwheels taking over Founders Green today mean spring has officially sprung on campus.
The College, which pledged to devote at least 20% of its dining budget to local, ethically sourced food by 2020 following a 2016 Plenary resolution, surpassed that ambition 10 months ahead of schedule.
This peace, justice, and human rights course is a study of recent work in Latin American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Diasporic critical theory and related resistance movements.
This first-year writing seminar introduces students to the many ways queer lives and theories challenge normative conceptions of linear time.
For the second straight year, the Black Students’ League Fashion Show drew a large crowd to the VCAM for a multifaceted artistic exploration of black experience and identity.
The 2019 Mellon Symposium, organized by Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Aniko Szucs, convened a diverse set of scholars to explore how surveillance has been carried out and undermined across national and temporal contexts.
The physics and astronomy double major from Oakland, Calif., will spend next year conducting research at the Max Planck institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.
Both new and experienced players are encouraged to try their hand at the age-old game of strategy and perseverance.
Upcoming Events
Apr
25
"At Home in the World: Perspectives on a Changing Nature" Symposium
Thursday, April 25, 2019
11:30AM to 6:00PM
VCAM 106
This symposium showcases student work that questions how we can imagine care, family, home, hospitality, kinship, justice, and, indeed, intimacy, given the fragility, or the antagonism, or the simple interference of a nature many have understood as a setting secondary to human activity. Students will pose this question to contextualize, together, their own anxieties and meditations on environment in an age of climate change with the aid of visiting experts, contemporary artists, and scholars in the environmental humanities.
Apr
25
From Child-Saving to Citizen-Making: Protection & Punishment in an Unequal City
Thursday, April 25, 2019
4:15PM to 5:45PM
Gest 101
Carla Shedd, associate professor of urban education and sociology, CUNY will discuss research on the extent to which both formative and reformative social institutions (e.g., schools and juvenile justice courts) shape the perceptions, experiences, and outcomes of urban adolescents.
Apr
25
"At Home in the World" Concert Premiere
Thursday, April 25, 2019
7:00PM to 8:00PM
VCAM 106
An evening of performances dealing, most generally, with anxiety about the future. Through movement, music, film, and poetry, the artists embody what it means and how it feels to inherit an environment whose capacity to support life may be diminishing. The night will culminate with the world premiere of a composition for solo saxophone, “At Home in the World,” by New York Times-acclaimed composer Scott Ordway, written especially for the symposium.
Apr
26
State Representative Vitali Talk
Friday, April 26, 2019
1:30PM to 3:30PM
Chase Auditorium
State Representative Greg Vitali is coming to Haverford. He is an environmental champ in Pennsylvania and is currently the co-chair of the Environmental Energy & Resources Committee in Harrisburg. He will be talking about his journey as an environmental policymaker, the challenges of working across the aisle on climate policy, and one of the biggest and most important pieces of legislation he is co-sponsoring, a bill to switch PA to 100% renewable energy by 2050.
Apr
26
Public Observing: Philadelphia Star Party
Friday, April 26, 2019
7:30PM to 10:00PM
Strawbridge Observatory
Join your friends and neighbors to stare at the stars, contemplate the constellations, and be amazed by astronomy—right in your own backyard. As part of the Franklin Institute's Citywide Star Party, local astronomers will bring dozens of telescopes to 20+ stargazing sites across the region to educate and inspire us all to better understand our universe. This is a rain or shine event.
Apr
28
Joe Schwartz '83 Memorial 3K Run/Walk
Sunday, April 28, 2019
12:30PM to 2:30PM
Founders Green
The 3K Run/Walk is designed to attract the running superstar and the walking novice because that is exactly how Joe Schwartz, a committed member of Haverford's cross country and track teams, would have wanted it. He simply loved people lacing up their shoes and enjoying the freedom to run and walk, a freedom that was deprived of him by ALS. Race Day Registration is available from 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. This is a family-friendly event with a free post-race BBQ, many games including bubble soccer, over 30 great prizes, and a kids fun run.
Apr
28
"The Ancient Law (Das Alte Gesetz)"
Sunday, April 28, 2019
2:00PM to 5:00PM
Stokes Auditorium
This German-Jewish silent film from 1923 is a landmark of cinematic history. The drama contrasts the closed world of an Eastern European shtetl with the liberal mores of 1920s Vienna, as the son of a rabbi leaves his village to become an actor in the big city. The movie paints a complex portrait of the tension between tradition and modernity. Part of the Yiddish Culture Festival.
Apr
28
Spring Chorale Concert
Sunday, April 28, 2019
3:00PM to 5:00PM
Marshall Auditorium
The 120-voice Haverford-Bryn Mawr Chorale and Chorale Orchestra, conducted by Nathan Zullinger, will perform their Spring Concert, featuring Chatman’s Proud Music of the Storm and Cherubini’s Requiem in C Minor. Ahead of the performance, at 2:15 p.m. in Union 114, Visiting Assistant Professor Thomas Devaney will give a pre-show talk on the role of music in Walt Whitman's life and poetry.
Apr
29
B-Cell Clonal Expansions in Health and Disease
Monday, April 29, 2019
2:30PM to 4:00PM
Sharpless Auditorium
A talk by Distinguished Visitor Eline T. Luning Prak, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Apr
30
Faculty Publication Celebration
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
4:30PM to 6:30PM
Bryn Mawr Room, Dining Center
Eat, drink, and celebrate the past year's amazing faculty scholarship! Books, articles, art, and music will be on display, as well as a catalog of the year's work
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