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Virtuoso clarinetist Igor Begelman will be the featured performer at Goucher’s 27th Annual Janet and Avery Fisher Music Residency, which will be held at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 8, in the college’s Merrick Lecture Hall. This event is free and open to the public, but tickets must be reserved by logging onto www.goucher.edu/tickets  or […]

Nicholas D. Kristof—journalist, author, New York Times op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes—will appear at Goucher College as the Spring 2013 Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Visiting Professor. His talk “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide” will be held on Monday, March 11, at 8 p.m. in Kraushaar Auditorium.

Author Judith Viorst—perhaps best known for her beloved children’s book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and many other works—will receive an honorary degree and deliver the keynote address at Goucher College’s 122nd Commencement on Friday, May 24, 2013. Honorary degrees also will be awarded to Kwame Kwei-Armah, the artistic director

In Margaret Murphy, A Ten-Year Survey, Decoding the Marketplace: coupons, dollar stores, and eBay, a new art exhibit at Goucher College, Murphy finds inspirations in everyday life and turns them into a critical dialogue about contemporary culture. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, runs in the Rosenberg Gallery on Goucher’s campus from

Maryland Shakespeare Festival will stage its Bare Bard Repertory—a rotation of Comedy of Errors, Richard III, and The Merchant of Venice with only three days of rehearsal for each play—in Goucher College’s Mildred Dunnock Theatre from June 7 through June 23. The plays will be presented Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at

This summer, study and perform with the Maryland Summer Shakespeare Intensive at Goucher College. This three-week, three-credit, actor-training course will run from Monday, June 2, to Sunday, June 22. Participants will learn original practices, an approach to acting Shakespeare that captures the form and methods of Elizabethan-era theatre companies, and emphasizes direct interaction with the

Neil W. Horstman—the first salaried president of the White House Historical Association—will be the keynote speaker at Goucher’s graduate programs Commencement held on Sunday, August 3, at 3 p.m. in Kraushaar Auditorium. The ceremony will honor the achievements of the graduates enrolled in programs through the Robert S. Welch Center for Graduate and Professional Studies

This summer, new students at Goucher College will read Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a psychological thriller that puts a new and interesting spin on culture, success, and loyalty in the post-9/11 world. The book is Goucher’s 2014 summer reading assignment for first-year and transfer students. Selected based on suggestions from the campus community, The

Goucher College opened the Athenaeum in September 2009 as the new flagship building of its campus, the figurative center of the academic community.  As a fitting tribute for his 13 years of outstanding service as the college’s president, Goucher’s Board of Trustees has announced that the building will now be known as the Sanford J.