Kudos

Dale Gyure, Goucher College adjunct associate professor of historic preservation, was featured as a noted Frank Lloyd Wright scholar and speaker at the Graycliffee Conservancy, Inc. in Buffalo, NY.

Victor Ricciardi, assistant professor of financial management at Goucher, recently served as an expert panelist for the session titled “Do Trading Simulations Really Help Students to Improve Their Financial Knowledge?” at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics, held at DePaul University in Chicago.

Goucher Assistant Professor of English Bill U’Ren’s newest screenplay, Twelve Hundred Ninety Six Hits, has won a spot in the Independent Filmmakers Project’s No Borders Competition, which matches financiers with new film projects by established, independent producers. The character-driven comedy is about a 17-year-old boy whose life changes the day he accidentally steals a sheet of acid. 

Angelica Daniele ’09 was recently named Baltimore’s Best Local Author for 2013 in Baltimore City Paper’s Best of Baltimore Poll.

This letter to the editor in The Baltimore Sun notes the Goucher Prison Education Partnership, which provides postsecondary prison education to more than 60 inmates at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW) and the Maryland Correctional Institution – Jessup (MCIJ).

Theresa Marie Van Orman, a student in Goucher’s Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability Program, was one of 11 organizations, curators, scholars, and graduate students awarded a Center for Craft, Creativity & Design 2013 Craft Research Fund grant. She will use the funding to support her master’s thesis research investigating the back-to-the-land movement and its

A Baltimore Sun reader shares his thoughts about the impact of the “Ungar years” at Goucher and all the president has contributed to the college and to the community.

Juliette Wells, associate professor of English, explains the appeal of Pride and Prejudice in this Daily Iowan article “ICPL celebrates the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice.”

Kathy Flann, assistant professor of English, has an article “Cherry Blossoms, Labradoodles, Each Other: Is Joy a Daily Choice?” in the Baltimore Fishbowl.

Thérèse A. Keegan, a graduate of Goucher College’s Arts Administration M.A. program, was recently appointed by the Frederick Arts Council board of directors as the new executive director. The director of the graduate program, Ramona Baker, described Keegan as a “listening leader and consensus builder”