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#HaverfordCollege
Join us in welcoming Wendy Raymond, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Davidson College and distinguished molecular biologist, as Haverford's 16th President!
A message from our President Wendy Raymond and Dean of the College John McKnight regarding Haverford student Kinnan Abdalhamid who was shot in Vermont:
Congratulations to Assoc. Prof. of Chemistry
@CharkoudianLou
, a 'Rising Star' Award winner from the
@AmerChemSociety
! This award recognizes exceptional early to mid-career women chemists across all areas who have demonstrated outstanding promise for contributions to their fields.
Join us in congratulating Lou Charkoudian on an
@NSF
award, supporting her research on natural product pathways. Her project also includes 2 community-engagement components: a student-run BioArt greeting card program & a professional development seminar.
Join us in congratulating Assoc. Prof.
@kdphd
and her collaborators--including Aaron Clauset '01--on their NSF grant to study discrimination and mitigation of algorithms on social networks.
Join us in congratulating Assoc. Prof. of Chemistry Lou Charkoudian '03 on her latest
@NIH
award! Her team's new grant-funded acyl carrier protein research builds on work that engaged 40 students & resulted in 7 publications & a provisional patent.
Assoc Prof of Chemistry
@CharkoudianLou
'03 is the sixth recent member of her department to receive the Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, which recognizes young faculty who are both accomplished researchers and outstanding educators.
Join us in congratulating Maurice Rippel '19 on his Watson Fellowship! The English major will use the award to fund a year of travel to Canada, the U.K., Italy, Nigeria, South Africa, & Colombia to explore the local communities through their barbershops.
Clyde Daly's new
@NSF
grant supports his work developing a vibrational spectroscopic map for terminal alkyne molecules. Please join us in congratulating him!
Remembering all those who lost their lives 19 years ago today, including Douglas B. Gardner '83, Thomas Glasser '82, Calvin J. Gooding '84, and Philip Haentzler '74.
Join us in congratulating Seanna Viechweg '19 on her Fulbright Award to Barbados! Seanna is Haverford's first Fulbright awardee to go to the Caribbean.
As recent tradition dictates, the campus celebrates the first truly spring-like day of the year with pinwheels that mysteriously appear on Founders Green overnight. And this year, they appeared today! Happy Pinwheel Day!
We will continue to recognize and value the identity of trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming students in our admission process and on campus. We remain committed to upholding your rights, safety, and dignity in the Haverford community.
Today is
#virtualpinwheelday
! And while we know it's not the same as gathering together on Founders Green, we hope that, in some small way, Virtual Pinwheel Day can bring a little bit of Haverford's campus to you... wherever you might be.
Today was the last day of classes--CONGRATULATIONS! We know this wasn't a normal semester and that there were many challenges that had to be overcome. But be proud of all that you accomplished and learned this spring. Good luck with finals!
Students & profs from the "Biochemistry Superlab" course recently published a paper in
@PLOSBiology
detailing not only the results of in-class research, but also how the class itself was designed to facilitate such work:
Wendy Raymond moved to campus over the weekend & today she starts her job as the 16th president of Haverford College! Help us welcome her & follow along with
#prezraymond
's first day in our Insta Stories.
Charles Young, a 16-year Dining Center employee, has played an important role in Haverford students' lives and was selected by the class as the ceremony's staff speaker.
“Haverford was small and not pretentious. It was just this really warm place that felt perfect for me,” said George P. Smith '63, one of the winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Haverford just admitted it's largest cohort of
@Questbridge
scholars ever! Today we welcome the first 25 Fords to join the Class of 2023. Our current Questies can't wait to meet you!
Join us in congratulating
@ProfCHL
on winning a grant to support the creation of new models for teaching physical chemistry. He is joined in this work by 10 chemistry professor collaborators from differently sized institutions across the country.
Asst Professor of Computer Science
@kdphd
& her collaborators at Brown & U. of Utah have been awarded funding from Mozilla's Responsible Computer Science Challenge for a project that aims to fold ethical discussions into computer science curricula.
Happy First Day of Winter, Fords! The winter solstice happened at 5:02 this morning, five days after the first snow of the year. Here's to a safe and cozy season ahead.
HAPPY END OF THE SEMESTER! Congratulations, Fords, you did it! And thank you to all the students, staff, and faculty, whose vigilance, adaptability, and care for the community made our fall semester possible.
Peanut says she’s ready to move into One College Circle! We look forward to our move-in and to welcoming you all soon into our new home.
@haverfordedu
Now on Bandcamp: a cleaned-up live bootleg of Afrofuturist icon Sun Ra's 1980 solo piano performance at Haverford, including a medley of Ra's signature tune “Space Is the Place” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
The sun rises on the last day of finals! Congrats on finishing up your work! Have a great summer! (And thanks to Allison Wise '20 for sharing this shot of the Duck Pond early this morning.)
A team of Haverford researchers, including
@kdphd
,
@alexnorquist
, & 8 students, published an article in
@nature
identifying previously unacknowledged human biases in chemical reaction data that impedes exploratory inorganic synthesis.
It’s pinwheel day on campus! Come to Founders Green to enjoy this beautiful weather with beautiful pinwheel colors and bird chatters. It’s officially spring!
#pinwheelday
Our Early Decision emails are out and we're so excited to welcome the newest members of the Haverford College community: the Class of 2023!
#haverford23
We are deeply disappointed in and disagree with the Supreme Court Ruling on affirmative action. We want to affirm for all members of the greater Haverford community that the College is unwavering in its commitment to equitable access to education...
We're so excited for Saturday's inauguration of President
@wraymond
! We hope we'll see you there. For a full schedule of the festivities celebrating the start of Wendy Raymond's presidency:
#prezraymond
Join us in congratulating Ellis Maxwell '20 on their Newman Civic Fellowship! The English major is being recognized for work in Haverford’s peer-led Customs program and as a leader of campus club Rethink Incarceration.
Join us in congratulating Seanna Viechweg '19 on her Augustus Taber Murray Fellowship, which will support her pursuit of an English Ph.D. at UVA , where she'll be a part of the first cohort of the Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures research cluster.
Please join us in congratulating Justin Otter '19 on his
@FulbrightPrgrm
Award! The physics & astronomy double major will spend next year conducting research at the Max Planck institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.
We are thankful for all of the people--students, alumni, faculty, staff, neighbors, parents--who make up the Haverford College community and for all of the good that Fords do in the wider world.
We are so excited to announce that
@GLADLaw
Civil Rights Project Director & marriage-equality litigator Mary L. Bonauto and actor, director, producer
@danieldaekim
’90 will receive honorary degrees at this year's 181st Commencement ceremony!
Please join us in congratulating Laura Been on her
@NIH
award to study how estrogen fluctuations during the postpartum period impact brain circuitry and behavior!
Join us in congratulating Brook Danielle Lillehaugen (
@blillehaugen
) on her Digital Extension Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies for the Ticha Project, which preserves written text in the endangered indigenous Zapotec language.
Join us in congratulating Sam Epstein ’19, Brett Pogostin ’18, Maurice Rippel ’19, Laura Seaberg ’20, and David Zegeye ’19 on being selected for this year's
@NSFGRFP
! Out of the roughly 13,000 applicants, another six Fords also received honorable mentions!
Recalling his time on campus Daniel remembers taking a Shakespeare class "taught by a man with an undeniable kindness of spirit, coupled with a dizzying intellect." That was Kim Benston. And that class that "would be one of the many reasons I love classical theater to this day."
We are disappointed to not be at Commencement today, but we are thinking about the Class of 2020 and are excited to honor them soon (via a virtual celebration 5/30 & a 2021 in-person Commencement). A message to them from the faculty:
#celebratehaverford20
Congratulations, Pelagia Majoni '22!! The computer science major is the winner of 2020 Student of Vision
#AbieAward
, which she is receiving at
#vGHC20
for her outstanding contributions to technology.
The new Haverford Student Loan Debt Relief Program builds on a commitment to ensuring that all qualified applicants can afford a Haverford education. “This outstanding program liberates Haverford graduates to pursue their dreams with confidence"-
@wraymond
From President Kim Benston: Haverford College expresses its profound sympathy and shared sense of grief for victims of the horrible New Zealand mosque massacres, an abomination to all peace-loving people throughout the world. /1
Congratulations on a wonderful semester! The College will be closed for winter break until noon on Jan. 2. Have a fun and restful break. See you in 2020!
We know that this is a difficult time for everyone, but one thing we are looking forward to is welcoming the newest members of the
#haverfordcollege
community. Decisions will be posted in the online portal tomorrow evening.
#welcomefriends
#haverford24
Every year opening remarks are given by a faculty or staff member chosen by the senior class.
#haverford18
have chosen Gary King, short-order cook who works the deli station at lunch in the Coop.
Learn more about
@danieldaekim
'90 & his work ahead of his receiving an honorary degree at this year's commencement in this
@EW
piece that touches on representation in media, Kim's production company, the upcoming Hellboy, & more!
Did you know that Emperor Akihito of Japan, who abdicated his throne yesterday, was once at Haverford? On 9/15/53 the then-19-yr-old Crown Prince toured campus & reunited with friend Robert Togasaki ’56 & former tutor Elizabeth Gray Vining.
Sending huge congratulations to
@TheDenneMichele
'08, the new editor-in-chief of
@ElectricLit
! She is the first Black, openly trans woman to helm a major literary publication.
We are so pleased that Linda Strong-Leek will be the next provost of Haverford College! The provost, vice president for diversity and inclusion, and professor of women’s and gender studies at
@bereacollege
, joins us Aug. 25.
Prof.
@KarenLMasters
talked to us about "30-Second Universe," her book (out TOMORROW) that breaks down the 50 most significant theories, principles, and people in astrophysics for a general audience.
Admission decisions have been released for our Early Decision I applicants. We welcome our newest Fords to the Class of 2027! Whatever your admission decision may be, we are grateful to every student who applied for their deep interest in Haverford.
#Haverford2027
#WelcomeFriends
Admission decisions have been released for our Early Decision I applicants. We are so thrilled to welcome our newest Fords to the Class of 2026! Whatever your admission decision may be, we are grateful to every student who applied for their deep interest in Haverford.
There are still some students on campus, sheltering in place, who rely on the Dining Center for their daily (take-out) food and to help maintain community connection. "This is what we do," said Jeff Gladney, who works in the DC, in his chat with
@wraymond
.
@haverfordedu
#duckpond
in the afternoon once the rain ended and the sun came out. Spring on campus is always so glorious. I'm sorry our students, staff, and faculty aren't all here to enjoy it together.
.
@CNN
shined a spotlight on senior Brett Mozarsky's Free for the Frontlines Tutors, which offers complimentary virtual academic support to children of frontline workers.
When schools went online in March, Brett Mozarsky '21 worried about the children of front line workers who had to manage their virtual educations on their own. So he started a free, remote tutoring service for them, staffed by fellow Fords.