Haverford Headlines

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.

Abigail Pruszinski smiles in a portrait taken on Haverford's campus. Behind her are out-of-focus trees and a campus building.

Summer Centered Students Campus Centers

Summer Centered: Abigail Pruszinkski '27 Helps Honor the Memory of Guatemala's Missing

The prospective English major spent the summer working with Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo, which searches for those who disappeared during the country’s civil war.

Ghislaine Niyodusenga looks at the camera in a portrait. She wears a black button up shirt and is pictured in front of a building on Haverford's campus.

Summer Centered Students Campus Centers

Summer Centered: Ghislaine Niyodusenga '27 Teaches Computer Literacy to Ghana's Young People

Niyodusenga worked at the Dalun Information, Communication, and Technology Center, a critical space for young people in nearby communities to gather and learn important technological skills.

Celebrating Earth Day on Campus

Students helped plant wildflowers and gathered on Founders porch for a reading of Dr. Seuss's The Lorax by the Arboretum's Mike Startup.
Lionel Anderson Writes Post for New York Times' The Choice Blog

The assistant director for the Office of Academic Resources offers advice for how to succeed in college.
Michael Martinez Named Dean of First-Year Students

Martinez, who is currently associate dean at Bates College, will succeed Raisa Williams in the post, starting July 1.
Two Haverford Seniors Selected for Princeton in Latin America Program

Jake Weisenthal and Shanina Halbert have won full-year fellowships that will support their work with organizations in Guatemala and Colombia, respectively.
Maya Barlev '12 Profiled in The Washington Post

Barlev tells the paper about the international astronomy education outreach she's been doing during her <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/58701/51">Watson Fellowshop</a>-sponsored travel.
Dean Philip Bean Writes New York Times Blog Post

The dean of academic affairs and associate dean of the College writes about choosing a major for The Choice blog.
Dr. Kari Nadeau '88 on NPR's Fresh Air

The director of the Stanford Alliance for Food Allergy Research, Nadeau talks to Terry Gross about her food allergy research.
Mark Geragos '79 Reviewed In The Wall Street Journal

Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works... and Sometimes Doesn't, the famed defense attorney's new book, is reviewed.
Seth Gillihan's Research Finds Most Effective PTSD Therapies Are Not Being Widely Used

In a paper the visiting assistant professor of psychology co-authored for Psychological Science in the Public Interest, he and his collaborators argue that while clinical research has identified certain psychological interventions that effectively ameliorate the symptoms of PTSD, most of the nearly eight million people struggling with PTSD don't receive those treatments.
Samuel Rodriques '13 Named Hertz Fellow

Rodriques, who also won a Churchill Scholarship earlier this year, will use the generous award, valued at over $250,000, to support graduate studies at M.I.T.
From Classics to Cosmology

Recently released results of the Planck space telescope's sky survey are giving us a whole new picture of the universe. Ben Walter '13 has been working with Emeritus Professor of Astronomy Bruce Partridge to sharpen scientists' reports on the game-changing data.
Music: Jeanne (Braun) Velonis â€˜94

Jeanna (Braun) Velonis '94 works for three-time Grammy Award-winning Classical Producer of the Year Judith Sherman.
Roads Taken and Not Taken: Ralph Shayne â€˜89

More than two decades after he completed a senior thesis that combined art history and physics, Ralph Shayne '89 took a trip to see the French cathedral his capstone project was focused on.
3 Questions With Richard Freedman

A new book by musicologist Richard Freedman explores Music in the Renaissance.
Anita Isaacs Talks to CNN

The Benjamin R. Collins Professor of Social Sciences is interviewed about the U.S.'s role in the Guatemalan genocide trial of Efrain Rios Montt.