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.

Faculty

COOL CLASSES: “University City: Race, Power and Politics in Philadelphia”

This course focuses on the role Philadelphia’s colleges and universities — and their affiliated healthcare entities — play in organizing the region’s economy.

News & Updates

Haverford Announces 2024 Honorary Degree Recipients

At Commencement, the College will recognize mindfulness pioneer and alum Jon Kabat-Zinn ’64 and Dr. Ala Stanford, founder of the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium.

Carousel Connections Comes to Haverford

This summer Amy and Chris McCann (both '02) launched a live-in life-skills program for young adults with special needs on campus that was staffed by current students.
Susanna Wing On Voice of America

The associate professor of political science discusses the reappointment of Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra and his new deadline to form a unity government in Mali.
Steve Spaulding '05 in The New York Times

Staff counsel for watchdog group Common Cause, Spaulding weighs in on the ethical issues surrounding Representative John F. Tierney's family finances.
Haverford on the Radio

Former WHRC DJ Jennifer C. Waits '89 chronicles nine decades of campus broadcasting.
Battle of the Bulge

Marlene Schwartz '88 works on the front lines of the childhood obesity epidemic, advocating for changes that will help families make healthier choices.
Partner in Health

Kelsey Capron '12 volunteers at a maternity center in Jacmel, Haiti.
New Musical Direction

He's composed art songs, a Latin jazz-inspired suite, a work for a Taiko drum ensemble, and more. Now versatile L.A.-based composer David Arbury '95 is creating the score for the comedy web series Couch Surfers.
Promoting Children's Literature in Africa

During a summer in Ghana, Helen Farley '14 interned with an organization devoted to developing writers and illustrators of books for kids.
Music Man

Mario Cotto '98, a DJ at Los Angeles' free-form community station KCRW, has the dream job he didn't even know he wanted.
New Book From David Wessel '75

NPR's "Morning Edition" interviews the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> columnist about his just-published book <em>Red Ink,</em> which explores the bitter politics surrounding the federal budget.
Haverford Researchers Create Carbon Dioxide-Separating Polymer

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Joshua Schrier used supercomputers at the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center to help come up with a material that, in theory, could help efficiently separate carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions.
Telling Stories, Publishing Lives

This summer Annie Reading '13 is working with Voice of Witness, a nonprofit that publishes the oral histories of people living in ongoing human rights crises.
A Summer in Indonesia

This summer, Jacob Lowy is in Indonesia, researching and experiencing life there with other Bi-Co Students. His internship involves learning the local language, participating in field research and working at an Indonesian political organization.
The Beauty of Ruined Places

Cat Lazaroff '89 talks to Andrew Blackwell '94 about his new book, Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places.
Beyond the Classroom

A collection of articles and blogs detailing the summer work of our students