Haverford’s rigorous academic program focuses on individual growth, intellectual exploration, and pushing the boundaries of each discipline. Many classes are taught seminar style with an emphasis on discussion and debate, and often involve field work outside the classroom. 

Each year, Fords look forward to myriad traditional events such as the Collection speaker series; frequent a cappella concerts; pinwheel day; and, an event that impacts all students, Fall and Spring Plenary.

The John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities’ Student Arts Fund helps students pursue creative interests that build upon and go beyond the offerings of our formal curriculum.

95 students conducted research, either individually or in groups, as part of the KINSC’s summer research program with 28 professors across departments in the natural sciences.

What They Learned: Erin Berlew ’15

Working in the lab of Assistant Professor Lou Charkoudian '03, the chemistry major helped create a type II polyketide catalog, which identified 78 polyketides of known producing sequence and structure and indexed key pieces of information about each of these molecules.

"What They Learned" is a blog series exploring the thesis work of recent graduates.

The John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities supports students across a range of internships, faculty assistantships, and research projects.

Students from the economics department have been involved in related initiatives via the Microfinance and Impact Investing Initiative (Mi3), including the Mapping Microfinance Project (MMP) for Philadelphia, which was created this summer by Ian McGroarty '17, Shan Shan '17, and Noah Weinstein '18.

Biology and chemistry are two of our most popular majors. A new analysis explains why Haverford is one of '25 schools most responsible for greatest advances in science.'

Where They're Headed

On May 17, 2015 the College held its 177th commencement, graduating 298 members of the Class of 2015. This blog series details some of their post-graduation plans.

Where They're Headed

On May 17, 2015 the College held its 177th commencement, graduating 298 members of the Class of 2015. This blog series details some of their post-graduation plans.