Headline Archive for Rebecca Raber

  • The weekend before Valentine’s Day, Fords Against Boredom held their annual edible graham-cracker-house-decorating competition with deliciously creative results.

  • This interdisciplinary course, which is cross-listed in economics and political science, explores the relationship between policy and economic outcomes— to understand “who gets what”— in the United States.

  • trees

    Following the College's first-ever comprehensive tree assessment, a massive renewal project aimed at preserving Haverford's beloved natural resources for generations to come and keeping the campus community safe is taking shape.

  • Mary Tuomanen headshot

    Award-winning playwright and performer Mary Tuomanen will spend her time as this semester's Friend in Residence making, workshopping, and performing theater that imagines a better world.

  • Richard Phillips portrait

    The computer science major is the only one of the four winners of the 2018 Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award from a liberal arts college. 

  • The 12 Bi-Co students in Naomi Safran-Hon’s “Sculpture: Materials and Techniques” class were asked to construct site-specific installations across campus—from the library to the Nature Trail to the KINSC Rotunda—for their final projects this fall.

  • Due to finals, all may not be calm, but it sure is bright thanks to the denizens of Lloyd, who are continuing the tradition of Lloyd Lights by decorating their doorways in festive, seasonal style.

  • This Peace, Justice, and Human Rights course explores the ethics, politics, and practice of oral history as an activist research methodology, and is focused on the theory, practice, and ethics of documenting oral histories.

  • This psychology seminar examines the theory and research of stress and coping processes and their links with disease and mental health, and includes an experiential learning component in which students learn stress-management techniques.

  • Marilou Allen

    The former director of Haverford's Women*s Center and 8th Dimension died Dec. 9. 

  • This class in the Department of Religion on early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature explores the social functions of apocalyptic and ask why this form has been so persistent and influential.

  • Members of the Biochemistry Superlab course with their professors

    A "Biochemistry Superlab" course co-taught by Professor Rob Fairman and Assistant Professor Lou Charkoudian recently published a peer-reviewed paper in PLOS Biology detailing not only the results of in-class research, but also how the class itself was designed to facilitate such research. 

  • For students returning from internship experiences who wish to deepen their understanding of social justice and healthcare, this course integrates experiential learning with readings on cultural conceptions of health, structural determinants of health, and addressing health inequalities in the United States and other countries.

  • Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.

  • George O'Hara portrait

    George O'Hara '18, a double major in Russian and chemistry, combined his interests by joining an epidemiological research project that resulted in a paper in PLOS Medicine's recent special issue on HIV/AIDS. 

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