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The Goucher College Library was recently recognized in Library Leadership & Management Association’s “Best of Show Awards.” They won best of show in the Bibliographies / Booklists / Materials Promoting Collections Print category; honorable mention in the Calendars of Events / Newsletters Print category; and honorable mention in the Services and Resources Available / Patron […]

April Oettinger, assistant professor of art and chair of the Art and Art History Department, gave the inaugural faculty affiliate lecture at the Johns Hopkins University’s Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe. Her talk on Thursday, April 18, was titled “The ‘Hypnerotomachia Poliphili’: Art and Play in a Renaissance Romance.”

Jeff Kunerth, a 2010 graduate of Goucher’s MFA in creative nonfiction program, has been named a finalist for a 2013 Pulitzer Prize. Kunerth and colleagues at the Orlando Sentinel were finalists for the local reporting category. They received the honor for their coverage of hazing rituals by the Florida A&M University marching band that killed

Michael Mason, a founding faculty member of Goucher’s cultural sustainability graduate program, has been appointed as director of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian. Mason is a 20-year veteran of the museum and is known for developing innovative community-based exhibitions and projects that link researchers, collections, and compelling stories.

Juliette Wells, associate professor of English, participated in a roundtable at the annual conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, on Saturday, April 6, in Cleveland. The session was titled “Has Jane Austen Jumped the Shark?” They concluded she has not.

Diane Scharper, an English Department lecturer at Goucher, was invited to write the inaugural poem for the installation of James F. Conneely as president of Notre Dame of Maryland University. Scharper read her poem “Winter at the Birth of Spring” on Friday, April 5, as part of the inauguration ceremony.

Associate Professor of English Juliette Wells recently gave an author talk at the Enoch Pratt Free Library based on her book Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination. A podcast is available here.

Robert Beachy, chair of the Department of History at Goucher College, has been selected to serve as an ambassador for the German Academic Exchange Service. Beachy was one of 29 individuals chosen by the German organization to help inspire others to conduct research in Germany.

Billy Daly ’16, Hannah Locke ’13, and Allison Marie Rich ’13 were selected to be published in the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network annual policy journal 10 Ideas, which presents specific plans for change that can make government more innovative, more engaging, and more democratic. Additionally, Locke, author of “Watershed Management for Healthier, Cheaper Urban Water,”

Tamiro Villazon Scholer ’13 gave a talk titled “Density of States of Type II Superconductors in High Magnetic Fields” at the American Physical Society’s March meeting in Baltimore. Goucher students Julian Irwin ’13 and Owen Lehmer ’13 also contributed to research for the project, supervised by Associate Professor of Physics Sasha Dukan.