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The 2012 Goucher Repertory Dance Ensemble Fall Concert – held Friday, November 16, through Sunday, November 18 – will feature Goucher students performing ballet and modern works by guest artists Doug Elkins and Melissa Barak, as well as new works by Goucher faculty. The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and […]

Film director and producer Deborah Koons Garcia will explore the complexities of soil, one the most overlooked and misunderstood natural resources, on Wednesday, October 17, in Goucher College’s Kelley Lecture Hall. A screening of her 2012 documentary Symphony of the Soil will begin at 7:30 p.m., to be followed immediately by a presentation by Garcia. There

Cyberspace is a big place—which makes it even more impressive that the Goucher College Virtual Tour is one of the projects up for a Webby Award, sometimes referred to as the Oscars of the Internet. You can vote for us here in the school/university best website category. We are up against the University of Maryland,

Dr. Robert Turner, director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, will present “We Never Use the Same Brain Twice: A Lecture on Neuroscience, Culture, and Experience” on Tuesday, April 9, at 4 p.m. in Buchner Hall of the Alumnae/i House. Turner’s talk will share cutting-edge neuroscience imaging

Filmmakers Sarah Burns and David McMahon will screen and discuss their film The Central Park Five on Wednesday, May 1, at 7 p.m. in the Hyman Forum of Goucher College’s Athenaeum. The film tells the story of a highly publicized rape in New York’s Central Park in 1989 and the five black and Latino teenagers

Goucher College is presenting “Go-Go Live: An Evening with Author Natalie Hopkinson and DJ Stylus” on Thursday, April 11, at 8 p.m. in the Gopher Hole. Hopkinson, author of Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City, will give a talk on go-go music and black cultural production. The talk will be

The Athenaeum Library Series at Goucher College presents “Information Makes Us Human” by Joe Janes on Monday, March 25, at 3:30 p.m. in the Batza Room of the Athenaeum. Janes, associate professor and chair of the Master of Library and Information Science Program at the Information School of the University of Washington, will discuss the

Goucher College’s Kratz Center for Creative Writing is presenting a reading, discussion, and book signing by its Spring 2013 Writer in Residence, Kyoko Mori, on Tuesday, April 2, at 7 p.m. in Buchner Hall of the Alumnae/i House.

The Goucher Poll asked Maryland citizens for their perspectives on hydraulic fracturing—or fracking,  a process that uses the high-pressure injection of water, sand, and chemicals to remove natural gas from rocks deep in the earth’s surface. About half of the respondents to the survey were given questions with the words “hydraulic fracturing or fracking” included.

Goucher College President Sanford J. Ungar will join Charlie Kolb, president of the French-American Foundation, to discuss the future of post-secondary education on the Internet radio program Global Reach on Thursday, March 14, 2-3 p.m. EST. Questions slated to be covered include: Is it the role of universities to prepare students to be engaged citizens