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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.

Faculty

COOL CLASSES: “Electronic Music Evolution: From Foundational Basics to Sonic Horizons”

Electronic music is an ever-changing genre. This course covers its history and theory while offering students opportunities to use cutting-edge production tools and technologies.

Students awards

Two Haverford Students Receive Goldwater Scholarships

The aspiring scientists will leverage their scholarships to advance their organic chemistry research and uncover innovative ways to diagnose schizophrenia.

"Doing da Vinci"

Leonardo da Vinci expert Jonathan Pevsner '83 is the resident scholar on a six-week Discovery Channel series that has him working with a team of architects, carpenters and engineers to construct some of da Vinci's inventions.
Playing for Laughs

Students in assistant professor of Classics Robert Germany's Latin 102 class got to do more than just focus on grammar and vocabulary this term. Also part of the course: a semester-ending, script-in-hand performance of Germany's original translation of one of the masterworks of Roman comedy.
Haverford Students Take the Stage at American Physical Society Meeting

Students past and present both contributed to and gave several research presentations along with physics faculty members at the Society's 2009 Meeting in March.
Karen Katz '11 Named Gilder-Lehrman One-Week History Scholar

This summer, Katz will spend a week exploring Abraham Lincoln's ties to New York City through research and field trips.
Professor's Research Takes Flight With Launch of Planck Satellite

Bruce Partridge, who has been working on Planck for nearly two decades, was watching the May 14 launch live in French Guiana.
Accidental Expert

Joel Warner '01 was surprised to find that a web page he created on "Swine Flu Epidemics" for a course he took at Haverford in 1999 has become a much-referenced source on the Web. Warner, a writer for Denver Westword, wrote a blog post about that long-ago course and his sudden notoriety.
In Memoriam: John P. Spielman

The former Haverford College professor, an expert in Habsburg history, died April 25. A campus memorial service will be held on September 26.
Gene Ludwig '68 On Bank 'Stress Tests'

The Haverford Board of Managers member and former Comptroller of the Currency appears on NPR's 'Morning Edition'
Two Students, One Alumna Receive Fulbrights

Dan Arnstein '09 will pursue neuroscience research in Holland, while Angelina Gomes '09 and Elizabeth Gray '08 will teach English in Spain and Uruguay respectively.
Two Haverford Alumni Win Prestigious Graduate Fellowships

Mark Maienschein-Cline '07 has been recognized by the Department of Energy, and Joshua Carp '07 by the National Science Foundation.
Jennifer Waits '89: The Source on College Radio

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.
In Memoriam: Skip Lawrence

The former Director of Development, hailed for his intelligence and compassion, died Saturday, April 29.
Zhao Fang '09 Awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship

The scholarship, established by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, gives Fang the opportunity to attend graduate school at England's University of Cambridge.
Glimpsing Ancient Greece

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.
Meditator-in-Chief

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.