Kudos

April Oettinger, assistant professor of art and chair of the Art and Art History Department, was awarded a fellowship from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for scholarship on Venice and the Veneto. The grant will fund her summer residence in Venice, where she will continue her research on the role of Lorenzo Lotto, other contemporaries […]

Eryn London ’08 is profiled in this New Jersey Jewish News article about her career path, titled “Orthodox woman trains as Halacha adviser.”

Gabrielle Spear’s ’15 reflections on her study abroad trip to Rwanda were recently published by the Matador Network here.

Elisa Koehler, assistant professor of music at Goucher, was featured in the March issue of the International Trumpet Guild Journal. Her book Fanfares and Finesse: A Performer’s Guide to Trumpet History and Literature is now available on Amazon Kindle, with the hardcover edition soon to be released.

Sheri Booker, who received her MFA from Goucher in 2007, has won an NAACP Image Award for her memoir Nine Years Under, which began as her Goucher manuscript. From the Image Awards: “Sheri’s Booker’s dazzling début memoir is a fascinating and darkly funny coming-of-age story about Sheri’s nine years—beginning when she was just 15 years

Margaret-Ann Radford-Wedemeyer, assistant vice president for development and alumnae/i affairs, and Greg Permison, assistant director of annual giving of athletics and young alumnae/i, presented at the District II CASE Conference in Baltimore on February 10. Permison presented “Team Effort: Raising Funds for Athletics in your Annual Fund,” and Radford-Wedemeyer talked about “Rebuilding the Advancement Farmhouse

Good Prose, co-authored by Richard Todd, lecturer in Goucher’s creative nonfiction master’s program, was named one of the Best Books of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews. “Other writing guides have more nuts and bolts advice, but few combine the verve and plainspokenness of this book, which exemplifies its title,” said the review.

Kathe Lison’s book The Whole Fromage was one of Amazon’s picks for Best of the Year for 2013 in the food writing category. Lison, a 2006 master’s in creative nonfiction graduate from Goucher, also taped two segments of the program Travel with Rick Steves.

Holly Sneeringer, a 2012 master’s in creative nonfiction graduate from Goucher, was awarded the Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize for her essay “Under Water” by the Room of Her Own Foundation.

Jennifer Brown, a 2003 master’s in creative nonfiction graduate from Goucher, received the James Madison Award for Service to the First Amendment from the First Amendment Center at the University of Kentucky’s School of Journalism. “I thought I was going up there to cover a speaker, and then learned I was the award recipient,” she