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“The Local Story is the Larger Story” and the Bicentennial in Philadelphia

A new exhibit in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery explores the summer of 1976 in Philadelphia through a documentary created by the 2019 Summer Doculab Fellows.

Arts Campus Centers

New Exhibit Curated By Courtney Lynne Carter ’17 Takes a Long, Hard Look at Material Culture

WE’RE SORRY THIS ITEM IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE, up through March 6 in VCAM, finds comedic value in a serious subject.

Campus Faculty

COOL CLASSES: “After the Sunset: Lessons in Transition to Peace: The South African Example”

This anthropology course, co-taught by this semester’s Friend in Residence, engages with issues, theories, and methodologies of nonviolent and violent struggles, peace negotiations, transitional justice, post-conflict reconstruction, and peacebuilding by looking at South Africa as a case study.

Pew Center Grant Funds Project Exploring Connections Between Campus and Local and International Muslim Communities

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Arts, Campus, Centers

The award connects the College’s Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, artist collective Slavs and Tatars, and Philadelphia nonprofits Twelve Gates Arts and the Council on American Islamic Relations for two years of planned artistic collaborations inspired by a 14th-century allegorical Uighur text.
Amira Abujbara's "We Are Still Here"

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Haverford magazine, Alumni

The Class of 2017 graduate made a documentary that tells the story of the problems facing Native Alaskan communities.
COOL CLASSES: “Public Policy Analysis”

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Faculty

This political science course helps students develop a deeper understand of how public policy is made.
COOL CLASSES: “Mind and World”

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Faculty

This philosophy course is an introduction to the history of our conception of ourselves as rational beings in the world through a close reading of Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant.
Exploring Career Paths

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Students, Alumni, Haverford magazine

Alumni-sponsored externships offer students a glimpse of the professional world beyond college.
Social Justice Work Celebrated at Fifth Tri-Co Hackathon

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Students

The winning project, Salud y Dinero, created by a team of five Fords, aims to create an engaging way for kids to become financially literate.
COOL CLASSES: “Industry and the Environment: Understanding Environmental Responses within the Textile Industry”

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Faculty

This environmental studies class, which is part of a Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives project this semester, broadly examines how the environment is impacted by the textile industry.
Alex Stern '20 Curates Lutnick Library's Inaugural Exhibit

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Students, Campus

The newly renovated library’s first exhibit showcases a new collection of early printed books, hailing from 15th-century Europe.
From Petri Dish to Poster: Fords Present at the 15th Annual Undergraduate Science Research Symposium

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Science, Students

With 96 students presenting research conducted across the globe, the Undergraduate Science Research Symposium showcased the range and depth of research Fords undertake in the natural sciences.
Pipeline to the MLB

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Alumni

The skills picked up at Haverford—critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and a sophisticated understanding of data—have turned out to be an ideal fit for key front office roles in Major League Baseball. And as a growing number of alumni get established in the industry, they are opening doors for younger alums.
Five Fords Lead Workshops at Nobel Peace Summit

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Students, Centers

With support from the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, five Haverford students journeyed to Mérida, Yucatan, to lead workshops at the Youth Program of the 2019 World Summit of Nobel Laureates.
COOL CLASSES: “Pre-Raphaelites, Aesthetes and Decadents: Gender and Sexuality in the 19th Century”

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Faculty

This English course explores 19th-century novels that examine the aesthetic, the ethical, the sociopolitical, and the affective as categories of interest and productive cultural investment.
Karen Masters Explains the Universe

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Faculty, Science

The associate professor of physics and astronomy is one of the authors of a new book, 30-Second Universe, that breaks down the 50 most significant theories, principles, and people in astrophysics for a general audience.
"Open Science:" Free for All

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Haverford magazine, Faculty

The movement, which endorses accessibility, inclusion, and a healthy dose of skepticism, is being taught in a course by Psychology Professor Benjamin Le that is one of the nation's only undergraduate courses of its kind.
Students Explore Boston and the Cosmos at Annual Workshop

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Students

A group of four physics and astrophysics students capped off a summer of research by presenting their findings at the Annual Undergraduate Cosmology Workshop in Boston.