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Good Food, Community Building Mark Inaugural QHouse Barbecue
Haverford’s community converged on QHouse for a late-September barbecue dinner to kick off the 2023 academic year’s LGBTQIA+-focused events.
Where They’re Headed: Naren Roy ’23
Roy majored in social-cultural anthropology and minored in visual studies, concentrating on Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx studies. Post-graduation, he began his role as a Quaker Voluntary Service fellow at the Metrowest Worker Center – Casa del Trabajador, near Boston.
Haverford Heritage: Four Questions for Leslie Castrejon
As Haverford’s offices and student organizations celebrate Latinx Heritage Month, members of our community share a little about what their heritage means to them and how they manifest it across campus.
Where They’re Headed: Clarice Xu ’23
Xu, a biology major and psychology minor, is currently working as a research associate with plans to attend medical school next year.
Advancing the Fight for Freedom Through Art
Akeil Robertson leveraged his Hurford Center and VCAM residency to positively impact the lives of incarcerated people. His exhibition “Project Hasan” is on view in VCAM’s Create Space through Friday, Oct. 6.
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What They Learned
A series exploring the thesis work of recent graduates. View More
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Abigail Keller ’17
The biology major and environmental studies minor cataloged hundreds of microorganisms present on the surfaces of whales and corals for her thesis research.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Isabel Gross ’17
Inspired by her semester abroad in Chile, the Spanish major studied the subversive power of Chilean songwriter-poet Violeta Parra’s political songs.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Chloe Wang ’17
The chemistry major and environmental studies minor used untargeted chemical analysis to study honeybee health.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: David Reilley ’16
For his thesis, the chemistry major worked on a computational problem of a lab in Montreal, where he had previously conducted a summer research internship.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Tamar Hoffman ’16
The political science major researched how bipartisan consensus on criminal justice reform changed from the 1994 Crime Bill to the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Casey Falk ’16
The computer science major studied how machine learning models work by using a novel approach to determine which features of a data set are the most useful to the model.
Where They’re Headed
A blog series detailing the post-Haverford plans of our recent graduates. View More
Where They’re Headed: Alyssa Sherman ’18
A student in Haverford’s 4 +1 engineering partnership with the University of Pennsylvania, Sherman is interning with Boeing before heading off to her final year of graduate school.
Where They’re Headed: Tyler Fong ’18
The physics major and economics minor is exploring a new realm—investment management—via a two-year, hands-on training program at Vanguard.
Where They’re Headed: Clara Abbott ‘18
This fall, the English major will get the chance to share her love of reading and writing as a middle-school teacher at the Thaden School.
Where They’re Headed: Kevin Liao ’18
The computer science major and linguistics minor has two jobs lined up; from SeamlessDocs to Facebook, Liao is diving headfirst into the world of civic technology.
Where They’re Headed: Gabriela Lomba ’18
A native of Puerto Rico, the former Jose Padin Scholar and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow is following up her undergraduate degree in comparative literature with graduate studies in the same field at the University of Chicago.
Where They’re Headed: Dina Turpin ’18
The history major is off to support the organization Reconstructing Judaism as an administrative assistant for development.
Cool Classes
A series highlighting interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience. View More
COOL CLASSES: “Health Economics”
This course explores the important issues of health and healthcare from an economic perspective, including the roles and perspectives of individuals, providers, insurers, and governments, and how their decisions are shaped by different economic, political, and ethical motivations.
COOL CLASSES: “Yoga: Art, Text, and Practice”
This course in the Department of Religion investigates the range of meanings attributed to the term “yoga” over 2,000 years and across multiple geographical and cultural communities.
COOL CLASSES: “Plagues, Diseases, and Epidemics in History”
This history course examines the theories and strategies that people developed to explain the advent and spread of individual plagues and epidemics.
COOL CLASSES: “Art and the Environment in East Asia”
This course, which is cross-listed in East Asian languages and cultures, environmental studies, and visual studies, examines the relationship between environment and the arts in China and Japan—particularly how artists engage with and respond to nature through varied modes of artistic production and exhibition.
COOL CLASSES: “Theories of the Remix”
This English course introduces students to the study of literature through the art of borrowing, sampling, recycling, and remixing.
COOL CLASSES: “The Anthropology of Architecture”
This course surveys anthropological approaches to architecture, with a particular interest in how architecture expresses senses of place.
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