Haverford Headlines


  • The high-tech camera, along with reduced foliage and brighter lights, is meant to increase safety along the trail leading to the Haverford College Apartments.
  • The longtime activist and current president of American Jewish World Service will visit Haverford October 6-9 as part of the President's Social Justice Speaker Series. Her visit is co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship.
  • White's position is the first to be funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support environmental studies at Haverford. She'll also help to develop an environmental studies curriculum.
  • John Spielman's life, career, and service to the College will be honored at a memorial service on Saturday, September 26, at the Haverford Friends Meeting House. Among those from the Haverford community eulogizing Spielman at the event will be Roger Lane, who, in the following "Memorial Minute," celebrates his former history department colleague as a "son of the west" and man of "timeless" virtues.
  • Now you can become a fan of Haverford College through our Alumni Facebook page! Keep up to date on what's happening at the Ford.
  • The student who was injured in a fall during a dance in Founders Great Hall earlier this month has resumed classes. (September 17, 2009)

  • The Delaware County Medical Examiner is awaiting crime lab reports before issuing a ‘final determination' in the case of a fatality arising from a car fire in the South Lot earlier this month. Read more>(September 17, 2009)
  • From the agora to the acropolis, students in a class co-taught by classics professors Robert Germany and Bret Mulligan are getting a sense of the physical layout of fifth-century Athens with the help of a series of signposts that show the equivalent locations on campus of important Athenian landmarks.
  • Amirah Nash '11, and Ben Amendolara, Bobby Danforth and Rebecca Burger-Caplan (on right in photo), all class of 2010, gained valuable experience in the field of medicine this summer thanks to primary care physician Steve Jaharis '82. Since 2000, Jaharis has sponsored internships for Haverford students in facilities that treat underserved populations.
  • Cohen, an artist-in-residence with Philadelphia Cathedral, combined images from 45 individuals and drew from her experience with public art projects.

  • Richenda Cope '05, Hannah-Ruth Miller '10, and Goda Trakumaite '10 found artistic inspiration in the scenic beauty of Newfoundland thanks to a program sponsored by Mark Chehi '78 and Johanna Chehi.
  • The new program of the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship brings scholar/activists from abroad to campus to co-teach classes with Haverford faculty and participate in a series of forums.
  • At a Magill Library open-house event this week, Haverford's new first-year students got a glimpse of some of the treasures held by Special Collections. Among them: a Buddha Scroll from the Ming Dynasty, a deed signed by William Penn and (pictured) the first of the Four Folios of Shakespeare's plays, a rare and beautiful volume that dates to 1623.
  • Kate Alfieri and Heather McMahon from the class of '10 were honored by the Protein Society for having the best undergraduate poster at the Society's annual symposium.
  • Through an internship funded by the Hurford Humanities Center, Madeline Kreider-Carlson '10 spent the summer at the Library Company of Philadelphia uncovering the lives of American women in the pre-Civil War era.

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