Since 2011 College Communications has produced a unique homepage each weekday to spotlight the rich diversity of Haverford's academic programming, extracurricular offerings, campus culture, and community members' accomplishments.
Professor of Economics Anne Preston is a labor economist whose research has looked at compensation patterns in the nonprofit sector, women in the labor market, and the trajectory of scientific careers.
Read Office Hour in the Fall 2016 issue of Haverford Magazine.
Anne Preston in her office with her 11-year-old toy poodle, Kiwi. Photo: Patrick Montero.
The Department of Music at Haverford offers a creative approach to music theory, a curriculum in music history that deals with music in the social context and embraces world music and jazz, while our applied music program and ensembles provide students with opportunities for performances and tours.
Ingrid Arauco’s composition students Shuyu Meng BMC'17 (right) and Chloe Lindeman '17 (second from right) had the special opportunity to hear the music they wrote performed by members of the Network for New Music ensemble. Photo: Caleb Eckert '17.
Professor of Economics Anne Preston is a labor economist whose research has looked at compensation patterns in the nonprofit sector, women in the labor market, and the trajectory of scientific careers.
Read Office Hour in the Fall 2016 issue of Haverford Magazine.
Anne Preston in her office with her 11-year-old toy poodle, Kiwi. Photo: Patrick Montero.
As part of an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team, Assistant Professor of Biology Jonathan Wilson published a paper in Nature Geoscience about the implications of the ancient CO2 record for future climate change.
Photo of a cross-section of a fossilized tree fern stem (courtesy of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum) from the Carboniferous Period by Jonathan Wilson.
Much of Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sorelle Friedler’s research takes place in a heady realm known as “high-dimensional space”—used to model data sets with many attributes—where, instead of the two or three dimensions most of us are familiar with, there can be 250 or even 1,000 dimensions.
Read Office Hour in the Spring/Summer 2015 issue of Haverford Magazine.
“I really like, in all my classes, to bring in cultural elements to remind my students that these were real people.”
Associate Professor of Classics Bret Mulligan teaches ancient Greek and Latin language classes as well as courses on literature, mythology, and history.
Read Office Hour in Haverford Magazine.
Mulligan uses this reproduction helmet in performances, such as the annual Classics Marathon. Photo: Thom Carroll Photography.
Assistant Professor of Astronomy Desika Narayanan was part of an international team that uncovered two galaxies at the heart of the Lyman-alpha blob.
The LAB-SSA220 Lyman-alpha blob Blob 1(LAB-1) is two young galaxies at the center of the cloud. Photo by J.Geach/D.Narayanan/R.Crain.
Professor of Biology Philip Meneely, who came to Haverford in 1995, has been working with the nematode worm C. elegans for more than 40 years. Most recently, his lab has studied how genes interact with each other to produce their effects.
Read Office Hour in the Winter 2016 issue of Haverford Magazine.
In addition to this ceiling tile chronicling some notable moments from his life, Meneely's office also features baseball memorabilia, and a poster from the abbey where Gregor Mendel lived and worked as a monk. Photo: Caleb Eckert '17
Professor of Religion Ken Koltun-Fromm '88 was a religion major at Haverford before becoming a professor in 1997. Since then, he’s been teaching courses in modern Jewish thought and culture, as well as material studies.
Read Office Hour in the Spring/Summer 2016 issue of Haverford Magazine.
Comics on Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity for an upcoming edited book with the curator of the Israeli Cartoon Museum about sacred texts and comics. Photo: Patrick Montero
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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