22nd Annual Layout Pigout Tournament
Ultimate teams from up and down the east coast converged on Haverford’s campus to play last weekend, and the College’s men’s team, Big Donkey Ultimate, pulled off multiple upsets to take home fourth place in a tournament that hosted some big Division III names.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Bruce Leto ’14
Pianist Bruce Leto took attendees on “The Grand Tour of Italy” at his thesis performance.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Matt Johnson ’14
Chemistry major Matt Johnson investigated the mechanisms by which some species of bacteria naturally produce pharmaceutically useful compounds, such as antibiotics, for his senior thesis.
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…
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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.