Kudos

Laura Langberg ’13 is profiled in this newspaper article about FEMA Corps members who travel to disaster-affected communities and support longer-term recovery operations across the country.

Leonard Forsman, a graduate of Goucher’s Historic Preservation M.A. program, was recently appointed by President Barack Obama to the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. The council is an independent federal agency that promotes “the preservation, enhancement, and productive use of our nation’s historic resources,” and advises the President and Congress on national historic preservation

Lisa Hill, Goucher’s associate director of admissions, has been awarded the 2013 Apperson Award. The award is the Potomac and Chesapeake Association for College Admission Counseling’s highest honor and is annually presented to a member whose career embodies the ideals of the association: providing extraordinary service to students and to the college counseling profession.

The National Association of Black Journalists has announced that Nsenga K. Burton, founder and editor-in-chief of TheBurtonWire.com and chair of Goucher’s Department of Communication and Media Studies, will receive the Ray Taliaferro Entrepreneurial Spirit Award for informing, engaging, and empowering a local, national, or global audience of readers and listeners.

Goucher MFA graduate Sheri Booker chats with The Baltimore Sun about her experiences working in a Baltimore funeral home, which led to her new book.

President Obama has nominated Leonard Forsman as a member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Forsman is chairman of the Suquamish Tribe and a 2004 alumnus of Goucher’s M.A. in Historic Preservation Program. The council promotes the preservation and enhancement of the nation’s historic resources and advises the president and Congress on national historic

Goucher has given the Award for Excellence in Teaching to Ailish Hopper, a peace studies and English instructor, and Esther Gibbs, professor of chemistry. Both are recognized as innovative teachers and mentors by fellow faculty members who nominated them.

Goucher has presented the Bruckerl Faculty Award to Jamie Mullaney, associate professor of sociology. The award honors a faculty member whose accomplishments in the areas of teaching, scholarly activity, and service deserve special recognition. Mullaney has been a part of the Goucher faculty for more than a decade and is recognized by both colleagues and

Dark~Sky Society, a book by Peace Studies and English Instructor Ailish Hopper, has been selected as a runner-up for the New Issues Poetry prize and will be published in fall of 2014.

Goucher Professor of Philosophy Steven DeCaroli  has been awarded a fellowship from Taiwan’s National Science Council, which will support a yearlong appointment as a research fellow at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei.