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Stepping Through History: Haverford’s Second Annual Civil Rights Trip in Photos
For the second year in a row, Fords journeyed through the American South during spring break as part of the College’s annual civil rights trip.
Exploring the Life of Ada Smith
An exhibition in the Rufus Jones Study explores the overlooked life of a quintessential member of his Haverford family: his house manager Ada Smith.
COOL CLASSES: “Human Rights: Culture, Language, and Power”
At the heart of Zeynep Sertbulut’s class is the question of “culture” and its relation to human rights.
COOL CLASSES: “Anthropology of Empire”
Ezgi Guner’s class is an anthropological exploration of empire, both as an analytical category and a historical phenomenon.
COOL CLASSES: “Art, Ecology, Activism: Aesthetics & Resistance in the Climate Crisis”
Bridging art history, environmental studies, and the humanities, this class explores the role of artists in confronting our escalating climate crisis.
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What They Learned
A series exploring the thesis work of recent graduates. View More
What They Learned: Ali Altamimi ‘22
For his thesis, the chemistry major synthesized a new molecule for fellow students to use in the Scarrow lab.
What They Learned: Callie Crawford ‘22
For her thesis, the chemistry major studied structure-function relationships of acyl carrier proteins, and how they can contribute to medicinal diversity.
What They Learned: Ravenel Davis ‘22
The psychology major and neuroscience minor used her thesis to study how children understand social categories.
What They Learned: Theo Bien ‘22
The physics major created a framework for building a robotic spotted lanternfly simulation.
What They Learned: Nuria Inez Benitez ‘22
The anthropology and linguistics double major compared and analyzed how diasporic and homeland communities express and convey their identities.
What They Learned: Riah Newfont ‘22
For her thesis, the religion major used an unconventional medium to analyze human connections, hierarchical structures, and activism through the lens of dancing styles.
Where They’re Headed
A blog series detailing the post-Haverford plans of our recent graduates. View More
Where They’re Headed: Lucy Zhao ’22
The biology major is starting Harvard University’s Ph.D. program in biological and biomedical sciences.
Where They’re Headed: Jianing Mu ‘22
The psychology major, with minors in neuroscience and statistics, is pursuing a Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin.
Where They’re Headed: Jackson Trevor ‘22
The political science major is working as a corporate paralegal at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York City.
Where They’re Headed: John Jayasankar ’22
The economics and linguistics major is a technical business analyst at OpenGamma, a financial technology startup.
Where They’re Headed: Ziyao Wang ‘22
The computer science and fine arts double major is pursuing a master’s degree in engineering, focusing on computer graphics and game technology, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Where They’re Headed: Ivan Quezada Taveras ‘22
The economics major is starting a job as an associate consultant at IBM.
Cool Classes
A series highlighting interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience. View More
COOL CLASSES: “Lab in Chemical Structure and Reactivity”
This unique Haverford chemistry course—known as “Superlab”—is a standalone lab for junior majors, who are asked to perform experiments without known outcomes.
COOL CLASSES: “Encoding Music: Digital Approaches to Scores and Sound”
In this music course, musicians and computer scientists team up to explore two key dimensions of the digital revolution for music: data about music, and music as data.
COOL CLASSES: “The Supreme Court”
This political science class, taught by an alumna who has worked at the Supreme Court, examines the highest court in the U.S. federal judiciary from different perspectives across the social sciences.
COOL CLASSES: “Clinical Psychopharmacology”
This psychology course explores the application of drugs to treat mental health disorders and diseases of the brain.
COOL CLASSES: “Débat, Discussion, Dialogue”
Students in this class build their French-language speaking, listening, and reading skills by analyzing, discussing, and debating current events and areas of contemporary interest from newspapers, television, radio, and films.
COOL CLASSES: “Advanced Topics: Observational Astronomy”
This core course in the astronomy program uses observations of the night skies—made in campus’ Strawbridge Observatory—to learn about the astrophysics of the Universe.
The Club Life @ Haverford
A series exploring the many varied student clubs on campus. View More
CLUB LIFE: Aiming for the Bullseye
Archery Club, founded in the fall by two sophomores, gives any interested students a weekly chance to better their bow-and-arrow skills.
CLUB LIFE: Into the Scrum
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.
CLUB LIFE: Club Scouts Philadelphia
Ford Explorers introduces campus denizens to all the nearby city has to offer and the ease of its public transportation.
CLUB LIFE: Carnivores and Turophiles Unite!
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.
CLUB LIFE: Exploring Architecture and Design Across Campuses
The club Bi-Co Architecture was founded two years ago by a group of Growth and Structure of Cities majors who wanted to engage with design and architecture beyond their coursework.
CLUB LIFE: Supporting Women in STEM
The club empowers all women interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at Haverford by creating solidarity among them and providing them with a support network.