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Where They’re Headed: Justin Adler ’23

The neuroscience major and health studies minor started his full-time job as a cancer researcher at Penn Medicine just two days after graduation. Adler awaits his upcoming matriculation to the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

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Where They’re Headed: Meg Bowen ’23

The biology and music double major begins her post-grad career as a Medical Career Design Fellow in the orthopaedic department at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Haverford track and field coach Tom Donelly wears a black tshirt and white hat. He is surrounded by several Haverford alums and former team members.

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Tom Donnelly, Haverford’s Legendary Track and Cross Country Coach, to Retire

Donnelly’s career at Haverford spans an unprecedented 49 seasons and includes 77 Middle Atlantic and Centennial Conference championships and a 2010 NCAA Division III championship.

What They Learned: Isha Mehta ’23

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In her thesis, the East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC) major, studied the relationship between humans and animals in ancient Chinese dynasties to better understand contemporary animal welfare.
Summer Centered: Exploring American History, One Monument at a Time

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During a summer internship at Philadelphia's Monument Lab, Maya Plimack '24 is doing curatorial research and aiding preparations for an outdoor exhibition on the National Mall in Washingtong, D.C.
What They Learned: Celia Page ’23

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Page’s thesis research was rooted in the fields of sports economics and discrimination research, an area that has received research attention mainly in basketball, baseball and football.
Summer Centered: Ruth Mercedes ’24 Plumbs the Archives to Unearth the Stories of Enslaved Individuals

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In a summer internship with the Witness Stones Project, Mercedes is compiling primary source documents related to slavery and helping to craft a vision for how the stories they tell can be brought into the classroom.
Grant Awarded to Digitize Records from Quaker-operated Indian Boarding Schools

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The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) has been awarded a grant of more than $100,000 from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission to digitize 20,000 records related to Quaker-operated Indian boarding schools, in partnership with Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Quaker & Special Collections here at Haverford.
Joseph Russo 1937-2023

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Faculty

Joseph Russo, who taught classics at Haverford for more than 30 years, died August 16 at his home in upstate New York of complications from a motor neuron disease. He was 86.
Where They’re Headed: Jared Heller ’23

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Alumni

The history major has set his sights on a career as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, and beyond.
Where They’re Headed: Jared Heller ‘23

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The history major has set his sights on a career as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, and beyond.
Where They’re Headed: Sharon Williams ’23

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The psychology major at Bryn Mawr and visual studies minor at Haverford begins her post-grad career with Vanguard Group as a Portfolio Implementation Associate.
National Science Foundation Grant Goes to Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Rebecca Everett

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Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Rebecca Everett has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further her research on the effects of food quality on the maturation stages of water fleas (Daphnia Pulex), with a larger goal of better understanding the degree human activities are changing the environment and nutrient cycles.
Haverford Welcomes Four New Faculty Members

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This year, new professors join the Departments of Economics, English, and Music, as well as the African and Africana Studies Program.
Summer Centered: Michaela Richter ’25 Researches Professors’ Career Paths With an Eye on Equity

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Summer Centered, Students, Campus, Summer, Centers

During a summer internship sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Richter helped track hiring practices in academia and how they relate to careers in linguistics.
What They Learned: Caroline Gihlstorf ’23

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Alumni

In her linguistics thesis, Gihlstorf’s topic was inspired by a class she took her junior year.
Summer Centered: Bukky Olugbeko ’25 Is Advocating to End Mass Incarceration

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As a summer intern working with the Abolitionist Law Center’s probation and parole campaign, she has witnessed up close the injustice of the criminal legal system.
Where They’re Headed: Sarina Smith ‘23

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Alumni, Science

The biology major and health studies minor now works as a lab technician in Dr. Elizabeth Bhoj’s lab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.