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Spring 2025 Faculty Update

Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.

Faculty

Professor Emeritus Bruce Partridge Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The honor recognizes Partridge’s meaningful contributions to observational cosmology and the study of the early universe.

Filmmaker Aidan Un is pictured holding his camera gear in an empty urban lot in Philadelphia.

Alumni Haverford magazine

Spinning Stories

Independent filmmaker Aidan Un ’11 embeds himself with Philly’s dancefloor diehards for his award-winning documentary.

Tennis coach Sean Sloane talks about recruiting on NPR

Haverford men's tennis coach Sean Sloane talks about recruiting at the elite D-III level at the Donovan Tennis Strategies College Prospects Showcase at Yale on National Public Radio's "Only A Game"
Alumna Serves Her Community as a Counselor With Central PA Wilderness Outreach Program

Heidi Witmer '02 works as counselor at the Tressler Weekend Alternative Program (WAP) in Boiling Springs, Pa.
HAVERFORD CELEBRATES FIRST UNITYFEST

To all of the Haverford College community, current and past, please save October 19 through 21, 2005 when we will celebrate our first UNITYFEST, a three-day event planned to create positive opportunities for examining together some of the dimensions of diversity.
HAVERFORD ALUM'S SCHOLARSHIP HAS HER DANCING FOR JOY

When Alison D'Amato '02 decided she wanted to attend graduate school for dance, she knew it would be difficult to find funding for such“non-traditional” goals, as she puts it.
CHANGES IN STORE AS FACILITIES MANAGEMENT WORKS TO IMPROVE CAMPUS, INSIDE AND OUT

The Class of 2009 and the nearly completed Gardner Integrated Athletic Center (GIAC) won't be the only new sights to greet returning students and campus visitors this fall. Throughout the summer of 2005, Haverford's Facilities Management Department has been working to give the College a fresh appearance, both inside and outâ€¦and there's more to come.
ALUMNA SERVES HER COMMUNITY AS COUNSELOR WITH CENTRAL PA WILDERNESS OUTREACH PROGRAM

Heidi Witmer '02 enjoys job as counselor at the Tressler Weekend Alternative Program (WAP) in Boiling Springs, Pa.
CSI: HAVERFORD

Bill Astifan's crew solves Haverford's arboreal problems via planting, autopsy, treecheotomy, heavy sweating, etc.
HAVERFORD MOVES UP IN LATEST U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT RANKINGS

Haverford College is #8 in the 2006 U.S. News & World Report rankings of liberal arts colleges, released Friday, Aug. 19.
HAVERFORD WELCOMES CLASS OF 2009

Haverford College welcomes the Class of 2009 this week, one of the largest and most diverse classes in the college's history.
ECONOMICS PROFESSOR LINDA BELL EXPLORES GENDER PAY GAP

Linda Bell has been featured in the national media
REVVIN' KEVIN

A day in the life of the Coop's Chef
WE NEED YOU FOR HAVERFORD ALUMNI AWARD NOMINATIONS

A call for Alumni Award nominations
HAVERFORD BIOLOGY PROFESSOR TAKES ON NEW ROLE AS ASSOCIATE PROVOST

As the new Associate Provost of the College, Professor of Biology Philip Meneely has plans.
HUMANITIES INTERNS: SIX FROM '06 INFILTRATE PHILADELPHIA'S CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS

Six rising seniors prepare to spend their summer weekdays working at organizations in Philadelphia where they have secured internships through a new program sponsored by Haverford's John B. Hurford Humanities Center.
â€œCASCADINGâ€ INTO SCIENCE: LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ARE INTRODUCED TO COLLEGE RESEARCH THROUGH MENTORING PROGRAM

Earlier this summer, when teenagers Latasha Anderson and Jacqueline Petroski first entered the laboratory of Associate Professor of Chemistry Fran Blase, they were a bitâ€¦overwhelmed.