Goucher first-year student Julie Hubschman’s love of computer science will likely take her far in life. It already has taken her to the White House. At the January 31 White House Tech Inclusion Summit, Hubschman was able to network with professionals and joined other students in listening to speakers, including the U.S. chief technology officer […]
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The Global History of Sport in the Cold War initiative at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. has awarded funding to Erica Fraser, assistant professor in the department of history at Goucher. Fraser will bring parts of her upcoming book project, Real Men Play Hockey: The Invention of Nordic Masculinity in Soviet Sports Culture,
The Bringing Theory to Practice Project awarded Goucher College a grant that was used to support a Civic Engagement Retreat held on campus January 22. Thirty members of the Goucher community participated in the retreat, where they discussed Goucher’s strategic emphasis on enhancing civic engagement programs. Associate Dean of Students Emily Perl and Director of Community-Based
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Goucher President Sanford J. Ungar weighs in on the results of a new Gallup poll, titled “America’s Call for Higher Education Redesign.”
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Goucher College’s Peace Studies Program is hosting a three-part “What Works: Best Practices in Peacebuilding” series. These presentations will center on the practical aspects of collaboration, cooperation, research, analysis, and communication as they relate to peacebuilding. All talks are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Anthony Harris ’13 at anhar001@mail.goucher.edu. Marisela
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Kendall Kennison, associate professor of music and chair of the music department, is the keynote speaker at Wright State University’s American Innovators Series event on the music of Stuart Saunders Smith. Kennison will discuss the influence of Quakerism on Smith’s music.
Queen Nur will perform a collection of biographical vignettes highlighting outspoken African American women of the 19th-century at Hampton National Historic Site’s Annual African American History Symposium. Nur is a graduate of Goucher’s cultural sustainability M.A. program and is currently pursuing the second part of her dual master’s degree in digital arts at Goucher.
In From My Mind, a new art exhibit at Goucher College, Baltimore-area artist Hal Stebbing shows large-scale acrylic and pencil landscapes and portraits. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, runs in the Lenrow Gallery on the fourth floor of Goucher’s Athenaeum from Tuesday, February 26, to mid-March. An artist’s reception will
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Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, a postdoctoral fellow in Goucher’s Environmental Studies Program, says that for a food system to be truly sustainable, we must prioritize the well-being of workers as well as consumers.
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This January some Goucher students were home enjoying some well-deserved down time between semesters. Others were off living and learning in far-flung locales. About 50 Goucher students were experiencing cultural and historical sites, taking classes, and earning credit as part of the college’s three-week intensive courses abroad (ICA) programs in areas such as Honduras, South
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