Short accolades about Goucher Faculty (published works, awards, etc.). Could also be about Goucher students and staff.
This month, the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages Uta Larkey gave a talk “Collecting Memory/Narrating Horror: Early Post-WWII Testimonies by Jewish Displaced Persons in the U.S. Zone” at the Joint Distribution Committee, the world’s leading Jewish aid organization founded in 1914.
Mara Bezerko ’16 recently won second place in her Biological Sciences Group of posters for her poster presentation at the 18th Annual Undergraduate research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences at UMBC on October 3. Mara’s presentation was “Endocrine Control of carbohydrate Metabolism in Xenopus tropicalis; Tissue Specific Expression and Regulation of GLUT 2.”
Goucher Poll Director Mileah Kromer talked polling on Maryland’s News This Week with Robert Lang.
Steven DeCaroli, associate professor of philosophy, writes about prison, education, and reform in his Baltimore Sun op-ed “The U.S. must commit to rehabilitate and reform prisoners.”
Robert Forloney, an adjunct professor in the graduate Cultural Sustainability Program, is helping lead a free workshop titled “Improving Your Chances: Writing (& Managing) Stronger Grants,” on Monday, October 26. More info here.
Associate Professor of Philosophy Steven DeCaroli published an editorial in the Baltimore Sun about prison reform, education, and justice.
Assistant Professor and Director of Operations for the Kratz Center for Creative Writing Bill U’Ren spoke with Dan Rodricks on WYPR October 2 about space exploration films through the years.
Phaye Poliakoff-Chen, director of the Writing Program and assistant professor, has been awarded the Maryland-DC Campus Compact’s Alan G. Penczek Service-Learning Faculty Award in recognition of the work she does with Earl’s Place, a transitional housing facility for homeless men in Baltimore city. Goucher students who go to Earl’s Place have collaborated on radio documentaries,
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Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department, Matthew Rainbow Hale, was recently awarded a Kentucky Historical Society Scholarly Research Fellowship. The award will enable him to do research for his book, The French Revolution and the Forging of Modern American Democracy (under contract with University of Virginia Press). It is the fifth external fellowship
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Margret Grebowicz, chair and associate professor of philosophy, recently had a translation published in Guernica.