A Day of Community Engagement
On March 18, all members the Haverford community—students, faculty, and staff—were invited to take a break from their usual Friday schedules to participate in volunteer projects at sites throughout the Philadelphia region in honor of the 34 years of service of the now-retired Marilou Allen.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Katie Ulrich ’14
Katie Ulrich traveled far from Haverford’s campus to conduct the research for her senior thesis, “Problematizing the Future: Brazil, Biofuels, and Basic Science,” traveling to Brazil to conduct fieldwork in a botany lab.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Robert Brooks ’14
Robert Brooks is looking toward a career in healthcare, but his desire to help people through science was partially inspired by his senior thesis, “Epigenetic Inheritance in a C. elegans Model of Increased Second Generational bli-5 Penetrance,” which studied C. elegans, a worm model organism.
Where They’re Headed: Minna Yoshikawa ’14
Since graduating from Haverford, Minna Yoshikawa ’14 has been working at the New York AIDS Institute, which is part of the state’s Department of Health.
IN THE COLLECTION: Spotlighting the Holdings of Quaker & Special Collections
Joseph S. Meyer, Notebook: Excavation in Niffer [Nippur], 1894. Massachusetts Institute of Technology architecture graduate Joseph Meyer was finishing up a world tour in the summer of…
Where They’re Headed: Daniel Barton ’14
Computer science major Daniel Barton ’14 went straight from Commencement to a job with Garmin as a Software Engineer. As part of the company’s Hardware Integration…
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Emily Mayer ’14
San Francisco native Emily Mayer traveled across the country to come to college at Haverford, but when it came time for the history major to write her thesis she looked no further than her own Bay Area backyard, writing about Women’s Building, a women-owned community center and landmark in the Mission District.
Cool Classes
The Club Life @ Haverford
A series exploring the many varied student clubs on campus.
What They Learned
A series exploring the thesis work of recent graduates.
Where They’re Headed
A blog series detailing the post-Haverford plans of our recent graduates.