2006-2007 marks the second year Haverford House Fellows have made their post-Haverford home in West Philadelphia. The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship invites you inside 4631 Spruce Street for a conversation about their exciting and challenging experiences as new neighbors. For a profile of the Fellows and their placements, please click here. To reach the Fellows, email havhouse [at] haverford.edu.
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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.
The aspiring scientists will leverage their scholarships to advance their organic chemistry research and uncover innovative ways to diagnose schizophrenia.
This course focuses on the role Philadelphia’s colleges and universities — and their affiliated healthcare entities — play in organizing the region’s economy.
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About a year after Sept. 11, 2001, Professor of Astronomy Bruce Partridge was meeting with close friend and Haverford alumnus Jim Kinsella ‘82 in London. Both bemoaned the poor relations between the Islamic and Western worlds—particularly the United States—and wondered what Haverford might do to help counteract the growing hostilities. They came up with the idea of a scholarship that would bring Islamic students to Haverford, where they would see a different, more positive side of America.
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“Four Printmakers” will exhibit their works in Haverford's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Oct. 27-Nov. 22, 2006. The exhibit will be curated by painter and printmaker Hee Sook Kim, assistant professor of fine arts.
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Gilbert F. White, known worldwide as the "father of floodplain management" and one of the most distinguished and internationally recognized faculty members at the University of Colorado at Boulder, died on Oct. 5 at his home in Boulder. He was 94.
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Allyn Gaestel '09 shares travels in Taiwan.
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Let's drop the modesty right from the start. Peter Hochman '75 says the food in his restaurant, the inventive and funky Alberta Street Oyster Bar & Grill, in Portland, Ore., is better than sex.
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Tom King, Director of Safety and Security, ensures law and order on Haverford's campus.
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Out of the 15,000 singers participating in this year's MNBA America Collegiate Barbershop Quartet Contest in Indianapolis, Ind., only one of them performed while wearing a banana costume. He was from Haverford College.
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This fall, the Haverford community discovered something different—actually, several somethings—about the familiar eatery known as the Coop. During the summer, Facilities Management and the Coop staff were hard at work renovating and updating the popular 13-year-old Campus Center hangout.
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The Washington Monthly College Rankings: Liberal Arts Colleges
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We are pleased to announce that the members of the Alumni Association Executive Awards Committee have selected the alumni listed below to receive alumni awards during Volunteer Weekend, Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 2006. The awards will be presented on Friday evening at the Volunteer Dinner with President Tom Tritton and the Board of Managers in Founders Great Hall.
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After Hurricane Katrina, Lane Savadove '89's theater company, EgoPo, relocated to Philadelphia.
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For some, gardening is a quiet hobby; for Abby Rosenheck '99, however, urban agriculture has become a force for social change. Rosenheck is co-founder and executive director of Urban Sprouts, a garden-based education non-profit operating in four San Francisco schools. Committed to educating middle and high school students in San Francisco's underserved areas, the program hopes to bolster academic performance, health and nutrition, ecoliteracy, and youth development.
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Secrets of the underground production of German V-1 and V-2 rockets, the dark and foreboding beginning of the modern space age, will be shown in a display of photographs by Philadelphia-based photographer Alvin Gilens at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Sept. 15-Oct. 20. An opening reception will be held Friday, Sept. 15, from 5-7 p.m. at the Gallery.
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When volunteers came to Burundi in 2002 to promote a variation of the United States“Alternatives to Violence Project” (AVP), they sought a translation for trauma in the official language of Kirundi.
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