Six recent graduates will spend a year living together in Philadelphia and working for local nonprofits through the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship's Haverford House program, which strengthens the school's connection to the city next door.
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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.
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.
Six speakers — five students and one staff member — shared their ideas through the popular community-focused platform on April 27.
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A film created by Sarah Harrison, Cole Fiedler-Kawaguchi, and Matt Liscovitz (all '13) as a final project for the class“Culture and Crisis in the Golden Age of Athens” has won the Best Picture category of the Terence Awards for Excellence in Classics Student Filmmaking. -
Caroline Malapero '11 is spending the summer learning about urban farming and studying ways to help New York City plan for a sustainable future. -
With the help of funding from Haverford's Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Blase A. Provitola '11 is interning at Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia, where they are helping to promote reproductive rights and sex education at the state and national level.
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Four bi-co students are spending the summer teaching English to children and middle school teachers in China, thanks to a program sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship. -
Hurford Humanities Center Associate Director James Weissinger '06 co-curated "Kat Culchur," an exhibition exploring the unique relationship between humans and felines. Organized by the Philadelphia artists of FLUXspace, the show debuted in London's Tate Modern art gallery this spring and is now on view through August 15 in Philadelphia. -
Natalie Zych '11 is spending this summer in Paris, interning with two organizations that work together to promote equality in France. -
On the schedule for the September Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe is a new production from The Groundswell Players, whose members include Ali King, Jack Meaney, Jesse Paulsen, all ‘09, and Scott Sheppard '06. For a post on the Festival blog, summer intern Ellen Freeman '11 spoke to them about their play <em>How to Solve a Bear</em> and their plans for a June 26th fundraiser.
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In his new book, Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America, religion professor Ken Koltun-Fromm brings together the fields of cultural studies and modern Jewish thought. -
Costigan-Humes is the first Haverford student to win a David L. Boren Scholarship, which will allow him to study Russian at St. Petersburg University during the 2010-11 academic year.
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At a special ceremony and gala celebration in Paris on June 8, Haverford College and the Institut de France marked the return of a long-lost letter written by philosopher Rene Descartes, and the beginning of new scholarly connections. -
Professor of Music Richard Freedman has developed a website that provides access to music books published in the 1500s by Parisian printer Nicolas Du Chemin. The site, which is now live, was created with funds from a National Endowment for the Humanities "Digital Humanities" grant. -
Alexandra Rodriguez-Negron '02, a high school chemistry teacher in Puerto Rico, has won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. -
A <em>Philadelphia Inquirer</em> article celebrates a concert program co-organized by associate professor of music Thomas Lloyd that brought together the choir of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas and the Bucks County Choral Society. Lloyd, director of the Haverford and Bryn Mawr chamber singers and chorale, is artistic director of the Bucks County group.
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President Emerson traveled to Paris to return a letter written by the French philosopher that had been stolen from the Institut de France more than 160 years ago. The letter was discovered in an autograph collection donated to the College in 1902.
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