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  • Haverford hosted a week of brainstorming sessions to create a prototype for "Earth Dashboard," an interactive computerized exhibit that will be displayed in the lobby of the U.N. Building.
  • Jerry Gollub and University of Cambridge collaborators discover a new mechanism for the swimming of micro-organisms.
  • Smith's play, The Sacrifices, was selected from more than 1,400 submissions for the Public Theater's Summer Play Festival (SPF).
  • The former Bear Sterns executive won $1.26 million and bested more than 6,000 players to become one of nine who will play in the final rounds in November.

  • Thanks to the Hurford Humanities Center, Julia Dunbar '10 is spending this summer with the University of Pennsylvania's Mapping Du Bois Project. She's helping to create a board game, documentary, and interactive map aimed at teaching inner-city students about Philadelphia's diverse history.
  • Associate Professor of Music Thomas Lloyd co-led a July concert tour to Brazil that featured two American choral groups performing with their Brazilian counterparts.
  • The office has great 08-09 fiscal year news.
  • Over the course of six days in October, Haverford's campus sustainability officer Claudia Kent watched with growing excitement as a team of workers transformed the roof of Stokes Hall into a meadow.
  • Through an internship funded by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Suarez is spending this summer excavating ancient human and ceramic remains with the Andahuaylas BioArchaeological Project in Peru— and enjoying a few adventures along the way.
  • Professor Kaye Edwards talks with Geoffrey Kabat '67 about his Haverford experience, how the College has influenced his career, and the issues raised by his latest book, Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology.
  • Rembert's Energizing Clinton County project is featured in an article in the Columbus Dispatch.

  • In his new post, the former Time magazine editor launches a reorganization of the Harvard Business Review Group.

  • The work of sculptor Peter Rockwell '58 is the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum through October 25. In a recent newspaper profile, the artist talks about his first encounter with sculpture in a studio art class he took at Haverford. Says Rockwell,“… After about the third class, I fell head over heels in love with it.”<br />
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  • M. Elias Tousley '11 is part of a summer research project, with associate professor of physics Suzanne Amador Kane, that is using stereo video techniques to study the phenomenon of mobbing, in which smaller prey animals attack a larger predator.

  • Professor of Music Curt Cacioppo's fantasy-choruses for piano, "This Little Light of Mine," which explores the tradition of American patriotic songs, was featured in a WRTI radio broadcast on July 12.

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