Haverford College

Choosing the winners of the Experiencing Study Abroad Photo Contest must have been a tough challenge for the five faculty and staff members who volunteered as anonymous judges this year. The group sifted through more than 80 student entries featuring striking images of such locales as Ghana, Morocco, Greece, Hungary and Hawaii to choose winners in four categories: Faces, Places, Nature and Events.

Learn more about Alumni Weekend registration, open positions in Alumni Relations & Annual Giving, and the Preview Report of Gifts.

Congratulations, Class of 2010! <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/ns/commencement/2010/">Watch the video</a>, <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/news/gallery.php?id=4151">view Legacy Photos</a>, or stop by the Haverblog for photos and behind the scenes tidbits.

During the spring semester, a reading group started by political science professor Harvey Glickman and sponsored by the Hurford Humanities Center looked at the diversity of thought in the Muslim world.

Smith, a University of California San Francisco MD/PhD student in biophysics, is one of fifteen recipients of the prestigious fellowship, which is the nation's most generous award for young innovators in the fields of applied science and engineering.

Hough has won the W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction for his book <em>Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg</em> (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2009). Hough will receive the award from the American Library Association at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on June 29. The novel (reviewed in the Fall 2009 <em>Haverford</em> magazine by history professor Roger Lane) will be issued in paperback in June.

The Florida Supreme Court Justice talks about his judicial philosophy.

The College Arboretum donated one of the Orchard Lot elms to Philadelphia's Penn Treaty Park, site of the 1682 treaty between William Penn and the Lenape people. Haverford's elm is a descendant of the original American elm under which the treaty was made.

Samantha Tubman '01 is working at the White House, and is included in a <em>New York Times</em> profile.

More than 30 former members of all-male a cappella group the S-Chords returned to Haverford in April. They joined the current S-Chords singers on April 24 for a day of reminiscing and rehearsing and a Saturday night concert in Marshall Auditorium in which the combined group gave a spirited performance of three S-Chords signature songs:“Hurry,”“Maryanne” and "Viva."