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.

Students sit around a crowded table surrounded by bookshelves in Haverford's Strawbridge Observatory.

Faculty

Teach for the Stars

For her latest book, Professor of Astronomy and Physics Karen Masters compiled a reading list of the best books in—and about—the universe.

Faculty

Fall 2024 Faculty Update

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

Cricket in Barbados

Caribbean Competition for Haverford Cricket
FORMER HAVERFORD TRACK STAR TO COMPETE IN PARIS

Later this month Haverford's first woman track star, Tamara Lave '90, will be competing at the World Championships in Paris.
Alum Helps Establish Medical School's Honor Code

When the first-year students at Thomas Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia take the Hippocratic oath later this month, they also will take part in a plenary to discuss, and hopefully, ratify the medical school's first honor code.
NEW ATHLETICS STAFF MEMBERS

Curt Mauger, Melissa Cruice, Ty Taylor, and Anne Preston join Haverford's athletics staff.
Historian Turned Novelist: Roger Lane Writes About Growing Up in 20th Century America

Haverford's oft-quoted authority on the history of murder in America has turned his attention away from crime and violence to research quite a different topic.
Serendipity Offers Haverford Students the Chance to Work with Children

A rarity during the academic year, dozens of children dashing around Haverford's grassy quads and playing fields is not an unusual sight on the College's campus during the summer.
Campus Far from Silent as Students Engage in Summer Research

As the weather heats up, students and professors alike are abandoning the classrooms, but Haverford College's new Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center is hardly gathering dust.
Library Exhibit Enhanced by Alumnus' Collection

Letters, books and maps offer unique peeks into the history of America's geographical expansion in the exhibit“'Under My Wings Everything Prospers:' Americans in New Territory."
CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE PRESIDENTS COUNCIL ADOPTS ATHLETIC REFORM PACKAGE

Conference Addresses Eligibility, Playing and Practice Season Concerns
Historian Turned Novelist

Roger Lane writes about growing up in the 20th Century.
JOHN CARROLL '63 IS AMONG NEW FELLOWS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Haverford College alumnus, John Carroll '63 is among the newly elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
MICHAEL PAULSON '86 AND DAVID WESSEL '75 AMONG 2003 PULITZER WINNERS

Two Haverford alumni are among this year's Pulitzer Prize winners: Michael Paulson '86, who along with the Boston Globe's investigative team uncovered the Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal, and David Wessel '75 of The Wall Street Journal, who was part of a group of reporters to contribute to The Journal's year-long series on business scandals.
CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE SPRING HONORS

Regular-season and post-season spring honors from the Centennial Conference have begun to flow, and Haverford College has its share of recipients.
Campaign Update

As the“Educating to Lead, Educating to Serve” campaign closes in on the $135-million mark, the College is approaching an important fiscal deadline. June 30, 2003, marks the end of the fiscal year.
WILLIAMS AWARDED GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP

Haverford's curator of photography and chair of the fine arts department, William Williams, has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to complete his photographic record of Civil War battlefields and historic sites where African Americans played an important role.