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Nyasha Grayman-Simpson, associate professor of psychology, recently appeared on the Marc Steiner Show‘s “Philosopher’s Roundtable” to discuss whether everything really happens for a reason. To listen, click here.

Danielle Faulkner ’12, help desk analyst, was named a 2014-2015 Urban Arts Leadership Fellow through the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.

Faculty and students from the Master of Arts Program in Cultural Sustainability (MACS) recently returned from the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society, held November 5-9 in Santa Fe, NM. Current student Amber Dodge presented her work with refugees in Florida, “Hope Through Common Threads.” Terri Van Orman ’14, director of Folklore Village in

Florence Martin, professor of French and francophone cinema and literature, recently published an article on Moroccan woman filmmaker Farida Benlyazid in Black Camera called “Farida Benlyazid and Juanita Narboni: Two Women from Tangier,” and she wrote a chapter on French woman filmmaker Claire Denis in the book Trouble Everyday: The Neo-Colonialists Bite Back, published by

Goucher Finance Professor Victor Ricciardi was interviewed on how to build a better questionnaire to measure investors’ tolerance for risk in Proactive Advisor Magazine here.

Nicole Craver ’14 and her study abroad trip to Cuba are explored in this Swim Swam blog piece titled “Behind Political Lines.”

Associate Professor of English Juliette Wells and Associate Professor of Psychology Dara Friedman-Wheeler presented at the annual general meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America in October. Their presentation was titled “Mansfield Park Family Therapy: A Comic Drama,” and included in the cast were Goucher College Librarian Nancy Magnuson and Lily Sage Weinrieb

The Goucher Prison Education Partnership has received the highly selective Maryland College Personnel Association’s 2014 Innovative Program Award.

Victor Ricciardi, assistant professor of financial management, celebrated his 10-year anniversary in October as the editor for the SSRN Behavioral & Experimental Finance eJournal. He also recently presented to a group of 125 financial planners on behavioral finance for the Financial Planning Association of Massachusetts.

Assistant Professor of Theatre Alvin Eng made his Baltimore performing début this October as part of the storytelling event “Autumn Leaves.” Also, in September in New York, Eng’s Portrait Play had a sold-out reading featuring Broadway veteran and House of Cards actress Kathleen Chalfant as painter Alice Neel and Bowery Poetry Club founder Bob Holman