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  • Sam Epstein portrait

    The chemistry major and biochemistry concentrator is one of 221 students from across the country chosen for the premiere undergraduate science scholarship of its kind.

  • Rugby has a long history at Haverford College and, after an undefeated, championship-winning fall season, the current men’s club team is continuing that tradition with pride.

  • Students, faculty, and alumni gathered for the Fourth Annual Public Policy Forum, which tackled environmental concerns, immigration law, and more.

  • Ford Explorers introduces campus denizens to all the nearby city has to offer and the ease of its public transportation.

  • Brett Pogostin '18 (left) and Ulf Olsson

    In Ulf Olsson's lab in Lund, Sweden, the chemistry major will study how lipid molecules impact the peptide aggregation that forms plaques in the brain of Parkinson's patients.

  • The Office of Academic Resources’ Reading Rainbow series, which asks campus community members to share book recommendations, continued this semester with an event focused on books that the panelists—including President Kim Benston and Talia Scott ’19—would have given to themselves as a young adult.

  • The Dining Center’s high-traffic dish room conveyor belt gained community-sourced embellishment as student groups helped create a mural to promote compost awareness.

  • This year, for the holiday, the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center was transformed into Hawkins, Indiana; Westeros; and more!

  • The Lighted Fools improv/sketch comedy group performed their first show of the semester.

  • Founded last fall, Charcuterie Union provides tasty sliced delicacies—as well as the history and knowledge that goes into preparing them—to anyone looking to refine their palettes and culinary intellect.

  • Owen Janson, in a mushroom hat, and Tosin Alliyu

    Tosin Alliyu and Owen Janson will spend next year traveling the world in pursuit of independent research projects cultivated on an international scale thanks to $30,000 awards.

  • This new course offers students the opportunity to gain intensive first-hand experience working with people in a psychological services or social services setting to provide a supervised platform on which to apply what they have learned in their psychology coursework to helping others in a hands-on way.

  • Folders on a grassy lawn

    The College received a record number of applications this year and offered admission to 877 students.

  • In the fifth year of Haverford’s annual energy conservation competition, the College reduced electricity consumption by 10 percent, saving about 6,200 kWh over its three-week period.

  • Nick Barile at the conference

    Political science major Nick Barile '18 won an essay contest to attend the annual conference on international security policy where prime ministers and other political leaders, senior intelligence and defense officials, and CEOs from around the world gathered to debate current and future challenges.

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