Haverford Headlines

Community Care and Resources in Response to Israel-Gaza

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.

Faculty

COOL CLASSES: “Our Americas: Imagining the Hemisphere”

In Visiting Assistant Professor Dennis Hogan’s class, students consider the literatures and histories of the hemispheric Americas as part of a shared cultural world.

Students

Student-Curated Exhibit Remembers Those Impacted by Guatemala’s “Dirty War”

An exhibit of Jonathan Moller’s photographs in Lutnick Library focuses on Guatemalan resistance, culture, and community amidst one of Central America’s most violent conflicts.

What They Learned: Isha Mehta ’23

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Alumni

In her thesis, the East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC) major, studied the relationship between humans and animals in ancient Chinese dynasties to better understand contemporary animal welfare.
Summer Centered: Exploring American History, One Monument at a Time

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Summer Centered, Students, Campus, Centers

During a summer internship at Philadelphia's Monument Lab, Maya Plimack '24 is doing curatorial research and aiding preparations for an outdoor exhibition on the National Mall in Washingtong, D.C.
What They Learned: Celia Page ’23

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Alumni

Page’s thesis research was rooted in the fields of sports economics and discrimination research, an area that has received research attention mainly in basketball, baseball and football.
Summer Centered: Ruth Mercedes ’24 Plumbs the Archives to Unearth the Stories of Enslaved Individuals

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Summer Centered, Students, Campus, Centers

In a summer internship with the Witness Stones Project, Mercedes is compiling primary source documents related to slavery and helping to craft a vision for how the stories they tell can be brought into the classroom.
Grant Awarded to Digitize Records from Quaker-operated Indian Boarding Schools

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Campus

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) has been awarded a grant of more than $100,000 from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission to digitize 20,000 records related to Quaker-operated Indian boarding schools, in partnership with Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Quaker & Special Collections here at Haverford.
Joseph Russo 1937-2023

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Faculty

Joseph Russo, who taught classics at Haverford for more than 30 years, died August 16 at his home in upstate New York of complications from a motor neuron disease. He was 86.
Where They’re Headed: Jared Heller ’23

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Alumni

The history major has set his sights on a career as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, and beyond.
Where They’re Headed: Sharon Williams ’23

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Alumni

The psychology major at Bryn Mawr and visual studies minor at Haverford begins her post-grad career with Vanguard Group as a Portfolio Implementation Associate.
National Science Foundation Grant Goes to Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Rebecca Everett

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Faculty

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Rebecca Everett has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further her research on the effects of food quality on the maturation stages of water fleas (Daphnia Pulex), with a larger goal of better understanding the degree human activities are changing the environment and nutrient cycles.
Haverford Welcomes Four New Faculty Members

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This year, new professors join the Departments of Economics, English, and Music, as well as the African and Africana Studies Program.
Summer Centered: Michaela Richter ’25 Researches Professors’ Career Paths With an Eye on Equity

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Summer Centered, Students, Campus, Summer, Centers

During a summer internship sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Richter helped track hiring practices in academia and how they relate to careers in linguistics.
What They Learned: Caroline Gihlstorf ’23

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Alumni

In her linguistics thesis, Gihlstorf’s topic was inspired by a class she took her junior year.
Summer Centered: Bukky Olugbeko ’25 Is Advocating to End Mass Incarceration

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Summer Centered, Students, Campus, Centers

As a summer intern working with the Abolitionist Law Center’s probation and parole campaign, she has witnessed up close the injustice of the criminal legal system.
Where They’re Headed: Sarina Smith ‘23

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Alumni, Science

The biology major and health studies minor now works as a lab technician in Dr. Elizabeth Bhoj’s lab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Where They’re Headed: Anubhav Sharma ‘23

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Alumni

The double major in computer science and math currently serves as an Associate Software Engineer at Morningstar Inc., a financial-services company based in Chicago.