Haverford College

The College will be closed from December 24 - January 2. Administrative offices including Admissions will re-open January 3. Classes resume Tuesday, January 18.

The denizens of Lloyd Hall have once again festooned each entry with lights in celebration of the season. Time to cast your non-binding (but fun anyway) vote for best effort.

New on campus this semester: Haverford's first-ever Graduate Assistants in Campus Life.

Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances and publications.

Greenberg, a technology journalist who writes the "Firewall" column for Forbes.com, sat down for a rare two-hour interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange, whose leaks of U.S. State Department cables have been making headlines, told Greenberg that his next target is a U.S. bank.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Helen White (right) and student Katie Sheline '13 are aboard a research cruise that will study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on marine life at the bottom of the Gulf. Sheline, whose trip was funded by the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, and White are blogging about their experiences and a special website is documenting the expedition with daily updates from the ship.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Alexander Norquist is one of six winners of the 2010 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. The prize recognizes faculty who are outstanding educators and researchers with a $60,000 unrestricted research grant.

Haverford music professors and composers Curt Cacioppo and Ingrid Arauco will both have commissioned works performed as part of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society concert series on December 9. Cacioppo's Philadelphia Diaries evokes five area sites. Arauco's Vistas takes its inspiration from visual art.

Andrew Lanham '10 has won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. Lanham, one of 32 winners from a field of 800 candidates, was one of only three U.S. Rhodes winners from a liberal arts college. Lanham described the rigorous application process as“a journey of self discovery.”

Haverford College President Steve Emerson writes about helicopter parents in the <em>Washington Post.</em>