Haverford Headlines


  • Haverford students and alumni are playing featured roles—both onstage and behind the scenes—at the 2009 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe.
  • Stephen Janick '87 is featured in this Philadelphia Inquirer article about Rittenhouse Needlepoint.

  • Students have arrived for Customs Week, our first-year student orientation program.
  • As a teacher of mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques, Baime works at the frontier of mind-body medicine.
  • Taylor Goodman (far right), Kathleen Abels, Jesse Paulsen and Luke Van Meter, all Class of '09, are among the 2009-10 Philly Fellows. The AmeriCorps-sponsored, year-long program, which gives 20 recent college graduates the opportunity to work for Philadelphia area non-profits, was created by two Fords from the Class of '03, Tim Ifill and Matt Joyce.

  • Through the Hurford Humanities Center, Danielle Helme '10 spent the summer interning at Philadelphia's World Cafe Live and its nonprofit partner, LiveConnections.org.
  • An impressive roster of Haverford grads is working on environmental issues around the country and the world. We asked a few of them to tell us about the exciting projects they're engaged in and to give us their take on the current prospects for moving the world toward sustainability.
  • Through the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Colleen Hotchkiss '11 spent the summer interning at Grupo Venancia, a nonprofit that works to empower women in Matagalpa, Nicaragua.
  • A summer internship sponsored by the Hurford Humanities Center gave aspiring director Matthew Bessey '10 the chance to learn about documentary film production at Philadelphia's Scribe Video Center.
  • Center for Peace and Global Citizenship intern Kaia Davis '10 is spending the summer in South Africa assisting on a reality TV show with a social justice theme.
  • Associate professor of political science Steve McGovern, author of The Politics of Downtown Development, offered his insights on the challenges of urban redevelopment in an article in the Rochester (New York) Democrat and Chronicle.
  • Paul Socolar '77, editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, weighs in on the No Child Left Behind Act, President Obama's pick for Secretary of Education and how we can improve urban education.
  • The installation, created by artist Zoulikha Bouabdellah, is on view at New York's Museum of Arts and Design as part of an exhibition of works by the winners of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize, which aims to build links between the Middle Eastern and Western art worlds. A panel discussion is set for September 10 (see below).
  • Assistant Professor of English Theresa Tensuan '89 explores socially relevant themes in contemporary comic books and graphic novels.
  • Through the Hurford Humanities Center, Sarah Singley '10 is interning with Philagrafika, helping plan for the biggest international art festival ever to grace Philadelphia.

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