This summer, 10 Haverford students received support from a new grant to conduct on- and off-campus research.
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The biology majors collaborated on related senior thesis projects on the role of fruit fly genes in mosquito embryo development.
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The computer science and chemistry double major continued work begun in the Dark Reactions Project, detailed in a recent cover story in Nature, for an interdisciplinary thesis.
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The physics major studied the movement of bacteria, among other things, in the Penn Complex Fluids Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The psychology professor will use the $274,175 award to fund her work on attentional focus changes following performance mistakes.
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The physics major will spend six months as a fellow for the National Cancer Institute.
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The music and biology double major wrote a song cycle and conducted research on zebrafish pitch perception for his senior thesis.
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The biology major is working as a research technician in a hematology-oncology lab at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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His joint computer science and economics thesis explored how the use of big data to make automated decisions may result in indirect discrimination.
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Haverford alumni scientists have earned fellowships supporting their graduate education and research.
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In this computer science course students learn data analysis and visualization techniques in the context of real, complex data and think about the technical and ethical issues this exposes.
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Sam Yarosh ’16 is getting ready to graduate with a Haverford physics degree, but he’s already part way through his master’s in systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania thanks to a pioneering 4+1 program between the College and the university.
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This signature biology course, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, brings together professors from differing research areas to team teach a stand-alone laboratory course dedicated to solving real-world problems.
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This history course explores how museums shape our understanding of the natural world and our knowledge about the past and includes several field trips to Philadelphia museums.
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This psychology course examins the links between the natural environment and people’s behavior using lenses of cognitive, social, and personality psychology, with a focus on conservation behavior and environmentalism.