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

On Thursday, February 28, Goucher College will join nearly 100 educational institutions worldwide to participate in the first-ever Student Engagement and Philanthropy Day. The initiative, organized by CASE Affiliated Student Advancement Programs (ASAP), is designed to increase student understanding of philanthropy on college and university campuses. Institutions from the United States, England, South Africa, and

Goucher College has established a dual-degree program though which students can earn both a Master of Arts in Cultural Sustainability (MACS) and a Master of Arts in Digital Arts (MADArts) in as little as two-and-a-half years.    In this dual-degree option, students develop their skills in digital arts and multimedia to make a positive impact on