Live Tweeting Commencement 2019
We’re memorializing every minute of the graduation ceremony of the Class of 2019. #haverford19!
Tri-Co Film Festival’s Close-Up
The 8th annual showcase of student films and multimedia projects brought together artists and audiences from Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore.
CLUB LIFE: Planeswalkers for Diversity Make Magic More Inclusive
Led by Antonio Gil ’19, Planeswalkers for Diversity aims to create a more inclusive environment for Magic: The Gathering enthusiasts and newcomers alike.
CLUB LIFE: Figure Skating Club’s Blades of Glory
With a mission of making figure skating more accessible to interested students, Haverford’s newly established Figure Skating Club welcomes all experience levels.
Smells Like Team Spirit
With more than than 30 options to earn physical education credit ranging from instructional courses to intramural, club, and varsity sports, there is no shortage of ways for Fords to stay fit.
COOL CLASSES: “Economic Development and Transformation: China vs. India”
This survey course on the economic development and recent transitional experience in China and India examines the economic structure and policies in the two countries, with a focus on comparing their recent economic successes and failures and their past development policies and strategies.
COOL CLASSES: “Ethical Struggles in Catastrophic Times: Quakers’ Responses to the Holocaust”
This religion course is an examination of some of the remarkable—and highly controversial—activities in which Quakers engaged as they tried to provide assistance to Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis.
Pinwheel Day 2019 is Finally Here
The pinwheels taking over Founders Green today mean spring has officially sprung on campus.
COOL CLASSES: “Decolonial Theory: Indigeneity and Revolt”
This peace, justice, and human rights course is a study of recent work in Latin American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Diasporic critical theory and related resistance movements.
COOL CLASSES: “Time After Time: Queer Pasts, Presents, and Futures”
This first-year writing seminar introduces students to the many ways queer lives and theories challenge normative conceptions of linear time.
BSL Fashion Show Showcases Student Art and Talent
For the second straight year, the Black Students’ League Fashion Show drew a large crowd to the VCAM for a multifaceted artistic exploration of black experience and identity.
Surveying Surveillance
The 2019 Mellon Symposium, organized by Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Aniko Szucs, convened a diverse set of scholars to explore how surveillance has been carried out and undermined across national and temporal contexts.
CLUB LIFE: Chess Club Makes Moves
Both new and experienced players are encouraged to try their hand at the age-old game of strategy and perseverance.
Learning on the Job
For over 40 years, the Center for Career and Professional Advising has matched alumni working in a wide array of industries with interested Haverford students for hands-on experience in their chosen field.
Bi-Co Students Journey to Japan
Ten Bi-Co students spent spring break experiencing culture in Japan through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan’s Friendship Ties Program.
CLUB LIFE: Womxn in Econ
With a mission to provide a support network and space to grow for students with identities underrepresented in the field, Womxn in Econ is crunching the numbers on inclusivity and gender equality.
COOL CLASSES: “Open Science and Inclusive Psychology”
This psychology course examines new initiatives in the field aimed at enhancing transparency, reproducibility, replicability, accessibility, and inclusiveness as well as their implications for improving psychological science.
Building Community with Visual and Culinary Arts
To share her new hand-illustrated cookbook with the community, Sarah Jesup ’20 hosted a salsa-making session in the VCAM Kitchen with help from the Hurford Center’s Student Arts Fund.