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  • The Haverford House fellowship and the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship are supporting a two-day conference, organized by Cara Curtis '10, to give a human rights framework to local economic justice issues.
  • Cairo resident Samuel Gerstin '10 recorded an account of life in his neighborhood, just a seven-minute walk from Tahrir Square, as the revolution unfolded.
  • A trio of guest speakers will lead a series of dialogues on international peace as part of the ‘Perpetual Peace' Project, which comes to campus for a public event on Feb. 10.
  • Silver writes about finding what Emily Dickinson called a poet's "flood subject" after she was diagnosed with cancer.
  • Stichter shared insights about building a career as a sculptor and her techniques for creating large-scale works out of clay during an artist residency at Washington State University.

  • A two-hour interview with Julian Assange that became a Forbes magazine cover article lands a book deal for Andy Greenberg '04.
  • In an essay they co-authored for a new book, Professors of Biology Jenni Punt and Philip Meneely, and President Stephen Emerson, look at Haverford's focus on undergraduate research, and the College's unique Superlab course, as a way to foster future biomedical investigators.
  • One semester from graduation and considering her next move, Dana Eiselen '11 publishes an essay on her role in her family -- and her family's business in the <em>Philadelphia Inquirer.</em>

  • Former All-American lacrosse player Richard J. Schwab '79 is the founder of a girls' lacrosse league that has grown to more than 250 players on 18 teams
  • Dermansky talks to Cheryl Sternman Rule '92 about her well-received new novel Bad Marie, the pressures of producing a second book and the writing life in general.
  • Haverford College is the unlikely setting for a new romance novel that features a biology professor as a lovestruck heroine. Author Abigail Reynolds, a Bryn Mawr alumna, says her familiarity with the campus wasn't the only reason she set her "modern love story with a Jane Austen twist" at Haverford.
  • The Haverford Garden Initiative marks the end of its first successful growing season with plans for expansion and increased student involvement. Co-founder Andrew Bostick' 12 says the garden is fulfilling its promise "as a space where people can think creatively and act decisively about food and its importance."
  • Associate Professor of Political Science Cristina Beltrán, whose new book examines the elusive“Latino vote,” shares her passion for politics with her students.
  • Concerned about the plunder of antiquities in Iraq and Afghanistan, archaeologist C. Brian Rose '78 did something about it. With the help of like-minded colleagues, Rose, the president of the Archaeological Institute of America, created a program to provide cultural heritage training for troops about to be deployed.
  • In an interview with the <em>Boston Globe</em>, the Harvard Medical School assistant professor and Brigham and Women's Hospital cardiologist talks about her research into racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes and life expectancy.

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