Haverford Headlines


  • A Temple University lecturer used seedlings from the elm at the Philadelphia Flower Show. Several other events in March also commemorated the 200th anniversary of the original elm's death.
  • The sophomore will deliver an essay and participate in a seminar at the 2010 Undergraduate Ethics Symposium hosted by the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University.
  • This winter, the bi-college Korean Students Association staged its first student/alumni networking event, hosted by Michael B. Kim '85.
  • Caitlin Coslett '05 helped launch the Greater Philadelphia High School Chess Open as a Haverford senior. Since then, she's returned to campus each spring to run what has become an annual event. This year's Chess Open, hosted by Haverford College, will be held on March 20.
  • All three Haverford students currently studying abroad in Chile have checked in to report that they are safe.

  • The long-lost letter appears to have been purloined by one of history's most notorious document thieves some 170 years ago. "There was only one responsible course of action,” says President Steve Emerson.“Do the right thing.”
  • The Chamber Singers of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges will travel to Turkey in March for the group's sixth international cultural exchange tour. The bi-co ensemble has been preparing for the trip with special lectures and a dinner hosted by a local Turkish-American group, and will perform a farewell concert on Monday, Mar. 1.
  • The father of George Urgo '08, Dr. Urgo will take office on July 1, 2010. He is currently vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Hamilton College in New York.

  • Join us for a celebration of black culture, history, and contribution on February 24 at 7 p.m.

  • At the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, seniors Monica Stegman and Maryann Tekverk spent a semester gaining invaluable field and lab experience.
  • <em>Looking for the American Dream: Andrew Borowiec's Ohio Photographs,</em> will be on view February 20 – May 30, 2010.

  • Till will cover politics, film, pop culture, and general issues of concern to the "millennial" generation. A research fellow with the New American Foundation in Washington, D.C., Till is also working on a book: a collection of his interviews with world leaders.

  • Assistant Professor of Political Science and Al-Qaeda expert Barak Mendelsohn has published three journal articles and a book this year, all examining aspects of terrorism around the world. Aiding Mendelsohn in his research for these works: the Global Terrorism Resource Database, which he and his Haverford students created.
  • The physics major is one of 14 students from top schools across the country to be selected for the Churchill Scholarship, which funds graduate study in engineering, mathematics and the sciences at Cambridge University.
  • Cuesta has been named a Rubin and Sarah Shaps Scholar, honoring his participation in Sloan Kettering's Summer Undergraduate Research Program.

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