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Transformative $25 Million Gift From Michael B. Kim ’85 to Establish Haverford’s Institute for Ethical Inquiry and Leadership

The institute is a cornerstone of Haverford 2030, the College’s strategic plan. Through it, students will discover new pathways to become the world’s ethical thinkers and leaders.

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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.

A group of 10, comprising Haverford students, staff and faculty, stand in front of a screen and a sign that reads TEDx Haverford College

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TEDx Returns to Haverford and Fills VCAM to Capacity

Six speakers — five students and one staff member — shared their ideas through the popular community-focused platform on April 27.

Prizing Both Teaching and Research

Associate Professor of Chemistry Alexander Norquist is one of six winners of the 2010 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. The prize recognizes faculty who are outstanding educators and researchers with a $60,000 unrestricted research grant.
Dispatches From the Gulf

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Helen White (right) and student Katie Sheline '13 are aboard a research cruise that will study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on marine life at the bottom of the Gulf. Sheline, whose trip was funded by the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, and White are blogging about their experiences and a special website is documenting the expedition with daily updates from the ship.
Andy Greenberg '04: Talking WikiLeaks

Greenberg, a technology journalist who writes the "Firewall" column for Forbes.com, sat down for a rare two-hour interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange, whose leaks of U.S. State Department cables have been making headlines, told Greenberg that his next target is a U.S. bank.
Premiere for Haverford Composers

Haverford music professors and composers Curt Cacioppo and Ingrid Arauco will both have commissioned works performed as part of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society concert series on December 9. Cacioppo's Philadelphia Diaries evokes five area sites. Arauco's Vistas takes its inspiration from visual art.
Op-Ed: Steve Emerson '74

Haverford College President Steve Emerson writes about helicopter parents in the <em>Washington Post.</em>
Becoming a Rhodes Scholar

Andrew Lanham '10 has won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. Lanham, one of 32 winners from a field of 800 candidates, was one of only three U.S. Rhodes winners from a liberal arts college. Lanham described the rigorous application process as“a journey of self discovery.”
Andrew Lanham '10 Wins Rhodes Scholarship

The former captain of the Men's Cross Country team is Haverford's 20th Rhodes recipient.
On Sculpture

The Hurford Humanities Center's Dialogues on Art program sends students and faculty on interdisciplinary outings to museums, exhibitions and performances. A group recently traveled to the Storm King Art Center, a 500-acre sculpture park in the Hudson Valley.
Galaxies and Llamas

A team of international scientists working with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile have reported the discovery of 10 new galaxy clusters in a paper published in Astrophysical Journal. Emeritus Professor of Astronomy Bruce Partridge and several of his students contributed to the research.
Young Alumni Make a Big Impact in October

Graduates from the last decade raised more than $250,000 this fall for the College's Annual Fund, by stepping up to a generous challenge made by an anonymous member of the Board of Managers.
Doing Well and Doing Good

Named the winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Howard W. Lutnick '83 used his acceptance speech at a gala ceremony for the prestigious award to talk about life lessons learned at Haverford College.
Mapping the 'Solidarity Economy'

With help from students Christine Letts '12 and Cameron Scherer '11, Assistant Professor of Political Science Craig Borowiak has developed a new web resource for the research seminar he teaches on Solidarity Economy Movements.
Shaun Hill '01: The Brewmaster

The veteran beer maker launched his Hill Farmstead Brewery in May. Now he's being called "Vermont's most buzzed about microbrewer."
Dr. Thomas A. Farley '77: Health Guru

A <em>New York Times</em> profile of Farley, the NYC health commissioner, explores his ideas about the health benefits of life-style changes and his belief that promoting behavior change "is the 21st century's equivalent of 19th-century advances in sanitation."
Iain Haley Pollock '00 Wins Cave Canem Poetry Prize

The coveted award, given by the Cave Canem Foundation, goes to exceptional first books by African-American poets. Cave Canem faculty member Elizabeth Alexander, who was selected by President Obama to compose a poem for his inauguration, chose Pollock's Spit Back a Boy for the award. The University of Georgia Press will publish the book in spring 2011.