Haverford faculty members are internationally recognized thought-leaders dedicated to working closely with undergraduates. Sixty-one percent of our faculty live on campus, allowing them to develop strong, supportive ties and undertake in-depth research with their students.

A team of Haverford College researchers—which includes Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sorelle Friedler, Associate Professor of Chemistry Alexander Norquist, Associate Professor of Chemistry Joshua Schrier, and several student researchers—published a cover story in Nature on using unpublished "dark reactions" to create a machine-learning algorithm that is able to predict reaction successes or failures with greater accuracy than human intuition.

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.

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.

Haverford faculty members are internationally recognized thought-leaders dedicated to working closely with undergraduates. Sixty-one percent of our faculty live on campus, allowing them to develop strong, supportive ties and undertake in-depth research with their students.

A team of Haverford College researchers—which includes Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sorelle Friedler, Associate Professor of Chemistry Alexander Norquist, Associate Professor of Chemistry Joshua Schrier, and several student researchers—published a cover story in Nature on using unpublished "dark reactions" to create a machine-learning algorithm that is able to predict reaction successes or failures with greater accuracy than human intuition.

Haverford faculty members are internationally recognized thought-leaders dedicated to working closely with undergraduates. Sixty-one percent of our faculty live on campus, allowing them to develop strong, supportive ties and undertake in-depth research with their students.

The John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities seeks to enhance the intellectual and cultural life at Haverford by fostering challenging exchange among faculty, students, and diverse communities of writers, artists, performers, thinkers, activists, and innovators.

The John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities seeks to enhance the intellectual and cultural life at Haverford by fostering challenging exchange among faculty, students, and diverse communities of writers, artists, performers, thinkers, activists, and innovators.

History is essential to a free and enlightened citizenry and forms a cornerstone of the liberal arts education at Haverford College. Our varied curriculum encourages students to analyze and interpret the past from many different perspectives and to recognize their own role in writing “history.”