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Transformative $25 Million Gift From Michael B. Kim ’85 to Establish Haverford’s Institute for Ethical Inquiry and Leadership

The institute is a cornerstone of Haverford 2030, the College’s strategic plan. Through it, students will discover new pathways to become the world’s ethical thinkers and leaders.

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Community Care and Resources in Response to Israel-Gaza

At a time of conflict and divide, the College is working to bring students, faculty, and staff together to support one another and engage these important issues through peaceful and constructive dialogue.

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Faculty Focus: Professor of Chemistry Alex Norquist

A solid state chemist, Norquist seeks out new solids with unique and useful properties. Assisted by robots and artificial intelligence, his lab’s current work is designed to help in the fight against climate change.

Dr. Thomas A. Farley '77: Health Guru

A New York Times profile of Farley, the NYC health commissioner, explores his ideas about the health benefits of life-style changes and his belief that promoting behavior change "is the 21st century's equivalent of 19th-century advances in sanitation."
Iain Haley Pollock '00 Wins Cave Canem Poetry Prize

The coveted award, given by the Cave Canem Foundation, goes to exceptional first books by African-American poets. Cave Canem faculty member Elizabeth Alexander, who was selected by President Obama to compose a poem for his inauguration, chose Pollock's Spit Back a Boy for the award. The University of Georgia Press will publish the book in spring 2011.
Oxford Blues Mark 25 years of A Cappella

The Oxford Blues, Haverford's oldest all-female a cappella group, joined with over 40 alums to celebrate the group's 25th birthday on November 6.
Premiere for Thomas Lloyd

In its November 21st program,“The Harmony of Yin-Yang, ” Lyric Fest will premiere a new work by Associate Professor of Music Thomas Lloyd. Lloyd's song,“Fatherly Reflections,” will be performed by prominent tenor Richard Troxell. In an interview, Lloyd, a tenor himself, talks about the genesis of the work and discusses his wide-ranging musical career.
Paul Savage '83: Direct Current's Best Friend

The CEO of Nextek Power Systems believes converting the electrical grid from from AC to DC could save energy, and he's traveling the world to promote his ideas.
Stephon Alexander '93 on NOVA's â€œSecret Life of Scientists and Engineersâ€

Alexander, an associate professor of physics at Haverford, is the subject of several videos debuting November 3 on“Secret Life,” a web video series and site created by the makers of the PBS science show NOVA. Aimed at students and teachers, the site features researchers talking about their work and their lives beyond science. Alexander's secret? He's a jazz saxophonist.
Haverford Students Find Fulbright Success

A report in the Chronicle of Higher Education puts Haverford College in the top 25 of bachelor's degree granting institutions for the number of its students awarded Fulbright grants in 2010.
Award for Daniel Dae Kim '90

Kim has received the San Diego Asian Film Festival's "Influential Asian American Artist" award.
Daniel Dae Kim '90 on Being a Working Asian Actor

Kim is featured in the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog.
Celebrating Photographer Paul Strand

The Aperture Foundation marked the publication of Strand in Mexico, the new book by Professor of History James Krippner, with a two-day symposium on the seminal photographer and an exhibition of his work.
Koshlands Name Humanities Center Directorship

On October 1st, Haverford welcomed Cathy '72 and Jim '73 Koshland to campus to thank them for generously endowing the Directorship of the John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center. View our photo gallery from the dedication celebration.
Strengthening Science

Students and faculty are enhancing their research with new, high-tech instruments purchased courtesy of a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Q&A: Waleed Shahid '13 on aiding flood relief efforts in Pakistan

The Haverford sophomore has organized a benefit concert to help Pakistan, where more than 20 million people have been affected by the floods. Along with raising money, Shahid hopes the event will educate concert goers about the crisis, the low levels of giving it has inspired internationally, and "the politics of humanitarianism."
Q&A: Allyn Gaestel '09 Provides First-Hand Reports of Haiti's Recovery

Gaestel, who lives and works as a journalist in Port-au-Prince, spoke at Haverford about her experiences at two events organized by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship. In an interview, she discussed her motivation for the move to Haiti and the progress the country has made since the quake.
Ben Hickernell '00 Participates in Philadelphia Film Festival

Hickernell's film Lebanon, Pa., about the unlikely friendship between a Center City executive and a small-town teenager, will be screened as part of the Festival.