Haverford College

Caroline Malapero '11 is spending the summer learning about urban farming and studying ways to help New York City plan for a sustainable future.

With the help of funding from Haverford's Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Blase A. Provitola '11 is interning at Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia, where they are helping to promote reproductive rights and sex education at the state and national level.

Four bi-co students are spending the summer teaching English to children and middle school teachers in China, thanks to a program sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship.

Hurford Humanities Center Associate Director James Weissinger '06 co-curated "Kat Culchur," an exhibition exploring the unique relationship between humans and felines. Organized by the Philadelphia artists of FLUXspace, the show debuted in London's Tate Modern art gallery this spring and is now on view through August 15 in Philadelphia.

Natalie Zych '11 is spending this summer in Paris, interning with two organizations that work together to promote equality in France.

On the schedule for the September Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe is a new production from The Groundswell Players, whose members include Ali King, Jack Meaney, Jesse Paulsen, all ‘09, and Scott Sheppard '06. For a post on the Festival blog, summer intern Ellen Freeman '11 spoke to them about their play <em>How to Solve a Bear</em> and their plans for a June 26th fundraiser.

Costigan-Humes is the first Haverford student to win a David L. Boren Scholarship, which will allow him to study Russian at St. Petersburg University during the 2010-11 academic year.

At a special ceremony and gala celebration in Paris on June 8, Haverford College and the Institut de France marked the return of a long-lost letter written by philosopher Rene Descartes, and the beginning of new scholarly connections.

Alexandra Rodriguez-Negron '02, a high school chemistry teacher in Puerto Rico, has won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

Professor of Music Richard Freedman has developed a website that provides access to music books published in the 1500s by Parisian printer Nicolas Du Chemin. The site, which is now live, was created with funds from a National Endowment for the Humanities "Digital Humanities" grant.