Haverford Headlines


  • Mark Maienschein-Cline '07 has been recognized by the Department of Energy, and Joshua Carp '07 by the National Science Foundation.
  • Thanks to her <a href="http://spinningindie.blogspot.com/">Spinning Indie blog</a>, Jennifer Waits '89 has established herself as THE expert on college radio. Waits, who recently posted a history of radio at Haverford (complete with vintage photos), was the subject of an article on SFGate.com by music writer Ben Fong-Torres.

  • The former Director of Development, hailed for his intelligence and compassion, died Saturday, April 29.
  • The scholarship, established by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, gives Fang the opportunity to attend graduate school at England's University of Cambridge.
  • Through Wednesday, April 29, Special Collections in Magill Library is offering a rare chance to see the entire collection of ancient Greek artifacts donated to the College in 1989.
  • With his pioneering Massachusetts clinic, best-selling books and sold-out workshops, Jon Kabat -Zinn '64 has been melding medicine and meditation and bringing mindfulness to the masses for more than two decades.
  • President Emerson summarizes the Haverford College budget for FY 2009-10.
  • In a classic <em>New York Daily News</em> column, the prolific author reminisces about his undergraduate band Federal Duck, which performed during his 35th reunion in 2004.

  • Ever since architect Gil Schafer '84 built himself a Greek Revival-style weekend home he's had clients seeking him out to design new houses that look like they've been around for a century or two.

  • Brother Guy Consolmagno, who spoke at Haverford on April 29, discusses his studies of meteorites and the relationship between science and religion.
  • A documentary co-produced by Ellen Brodsky '85, about a radical 1920s housing experiment in New York, will air nationally on PBS's Independent Lens. The film tells the story of the United Workers Cooperative Colony, a Bronx apartment complex built by immigrant Jewish garment workers with a vision of a just society.
  • Anthropologist David R. Braun '98 was part of a team that discovered a set of 1.5 million-year-old footprints in northern Kenya. Analyzed in a study published in the journal Science, the prints have become big news for what they reveal about human evolution.
  • Professor Steve McGovern's seminar "Grassroots Politics in Philadelphia" provides a service learning component by having students intern with local nonprofits.
  • Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances and publications.
  • A cautionary letter from Quaker founder George Fox to slave holding Friends in Barbados; legal documents freeing the slaves of their Quaker masters; the working manuscript of 18th century abolitionist Thomas Clarkson's magnum opus on slavery—these are just a few of the items soon to be available online, thanks to a grant awarded to Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.

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