Associate Professor of Psychology Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl is a personality/social psychologist whose research looks at how people connect memories of past life events to their present self through the life stories they construct and narrate.
Read Office Hour in the Fall 2015 issue of Haverford Magazine.
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Every Haverford major includes a capstone project. In her History of Art senior thesis, Jenna McKinley '15 hypothesized that simplicity and lack of embellishment—not low neckline—was behind much of the outrage directed at this painting.
John Singer Sargent's Madame X caused a stir when unveiled in 1884.
The 11 upperclass students who live in Music and Arts House came together last spring to create a space for artists to collaborate and share their work with the greater Haverford community.
The other community houses are the long-running eHaus, a cooperative focused on environmental sustainability; Nerd House, which has brought strategy board game nights, Miyazaki movie screenings, and a Haverfest Renaissance Faire; and Quaker House and Christian House, which are both faith-themed intentional communities.
The “backyard barbecue bonanza” was a kickoff of sorts for the Music and Arts House. Photo by Alana Thurston ’16.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.