Kudos

The Kentucky Review literature magazine recently published the short story “Sexy Wil and Shaol-Ling” by Lisa Weiss, a professor in the music department.

Eliezer Cartagena ’18 and Anthony Perdue ’18 were both selected by National Association for Independent Schools to become faculty members for the organization’s upcoming Student Diversity Leadership Conference. This international conference includes participants from England, Belgium, Spain, and Bermuda. The two will train attending high school participants on core cultural identities and multicultural competence. For more information,

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz has named Kimberly Bowen to a term on the Baltimore County Commission for Women.

A collection of short stories by Associate Professor Kathy Flann, Get a Grip, has won the George Garrett Award and is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in October. There will be a book launch at Atomic Books in Baltimore on Thursday, October 22, at 7 p.m. In addition, she’ll be reading in the “Starts Here”

Juliette Wells, associate professor and chair of the English Department, is quoted in this article “How Jane Austen Became Such a Tourist Trap.“

Associate Professor of Psychology, Nyasha Grayman-Simpson, wrote about National Minority Mental Health Awareness in the Burton Wire.

Goucher will be represented in the Creative Alliance’s annual Baltimore Student Video Festival by Gabriel Killhour ’15 with his piece “Collection Diary.” For tickets and more information, click here.

Jennifer McCabe, associate professor of psychology, was an invited presenter at the 2015 McMaster University Symposium on Education & Cognition, which focuses on discovering evidence-based practices in education. Her talk, “Beyond ROY G BIV: Enhancing memory for course information using mnemonics.” will be available here.

Goucher College Finance Professor Victor Ricciardi discusses investor behavior on the Irish podcast Economic Rockstar and was interviewed about behavioral finance by the website Cafemutual headquarted in India.

In this Baltimore Sun article about the Baltimore mayoral race, Nina Therese Kasniunas, political science associate professor, said new candidates have strong name recognition — and enough money to “get them in the game.”