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ArtsStudents Remote Possibilities ByAidan York 24December 17, 20204 min readA new Hurford Center program, born of the disruption of the pandemic, allowed a group of Fords to spend the summer learning about the arts and humanities’ evolving roles in our contemporary moment, with particular emphasis on digitization and combating structural racism.AlumniWhere They’re Headed: Leslie Patricia Luqueño ’20BySally Pearson 21December 14, 20203 min readThe anthropology major and education studies minor is in her first quarter at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in education. AlumniScienceWhere They re Headed: Neel Shah ’20BySally Pearson 21December 7, 20202 min readBiology major Neel Shah ’20 is doing cancer research in his two-year fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.FacultyScienceStudentsBiology Students Research COVID-19BySally Pearson 21December 4, 20203 min readProfessor Emeritus of Biology Judith Owen led a team of 10 biology students in research on COVID-19 vaccines for five weeks over this past summer. CampusStudentsNew Student-Run Food Pantry Nourishes Body and MindBySally Pearson 21December 3, 20205 min readThe Nest, an on-campus food pantry for eligible first-generation, low-income students, opened last semester through the collaboration of students and staff across campus.Load More My New Normal is a series of first-person blog posts, sharing the experiences of the Haverford community in the time of COVID-19. The political science and music double major, who released her first single as Tendertwin during the pandemic, writes about her experience studying abroad at the onset of COVID-19 and what life is like on campus this semester. The curator of rare books manuscripts and head of Quaker Special Collections writes about shifting her work from sharing physical editions to digital ones and becoming “the hands” for researchers far from campus, turning pages for them onscreen. The Arboretum Program Coordinator describes her work on campus during the College’s closure in the spring, and how it relates to Haverford’s sense of community. A series highlighting interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience. This writing seminar focuses on how British and American culture has defined the child since the 18th century, tracing the ever-evolving definitions of childhood through books, games, and toys of different periods. This seminar course addresses major theories and findings in Asian American psychology, with a focus on immigration and acculturation, ethnic identity, stereotyping and discrimination, families and development, and mental health. Biology major Neel Shah ’20 is doing cancer research in his two-year fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. A participant in Haverford and Caltech’s joint 3-2 engineering program, the mathematics major and environmental studies minor has finished his Caltech education and is now developing climate change models. The physics major is moving to London to further his career in real estate financing. Haverford’s academic competition team has been keeping up its activity and engagement despite the difficulties presented by the pandemic. The Federation United Concert Series is a group committed to bringing an eclectic range of musical acts right to your doorstep. Haverford’s long-standing, midnight-skating, stick-wielding, hoagie-eating ice hockey team is open to all players, regardless of skill level. The comparative literature major used her thesis to study the relationship between memory and language in the wake of civil wars, calling upon her study abroad experience in Lima, Peru, to augment her analysis of post-conflict culture in Peru and Sri Lanka. The political science major studied the prosecutorial reform movement as a way of exploring the various reasons why politicians and political candidates take up reform-minded stances that deviate from their party’s standard stances. For her thesis, the psychology major explored the effects of a particular hormone on pregnancy by studying mice.

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