More than 30 years ago, the first male students enrolled at Goucher College. Today, some of their daughters are building on the legacy.
The 1918 flu pandemic was caused by the H1N1 virus and spread worldwide. One hundred years later, Goucher is using best practices to navigate another pandemic.
New books published by Goucher faculty and alumnae/i.
COVID-19 derailed many student internship opportunities. In response, Goucher created a micro-internship pilot program to offer virtual, paid internships with alumnae/i mentors and companies.
Aarika Camp became Goucher’s vice president and dean of students this past fall. She discusses opportunities for Goucher and working through a pandemic, while keeping a sense of humor.
Nash earned a scholarship to study zoology at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and used money from her 1940 Queen Maryland beauty contest winnings to pay for room and board.
“How do we make the job market fair?” Daly tries to answer this question by developing systems that examine data to place candidates in quality roles.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Sociology Michael Lengefeld discusses his research on nuclear weapons development, Latin American cocaine production, concussions in sports, zoonotic spillover, and how it’s all connected.
Goucher’s curriculum is evolving and will continue to do so to best prepare our students to succeed not only immediately after graduating but also long into the future.
Jennifer Hyde Sachs ’90, an entrepreneur and public speaker, recently spoke with the Goucher community about her life in Beijing and the bilingual school she started.
Snapshots of the Goucher community at home—Chapin Noel ’24, Paige McSavaney ’24, Jaired Tate, Kendyl Walker, and Tina Carretti show their lives learning and working from home.
As part of a national racial justice teach-in, Goucher faculty opened their classrooms to the public for discussions about Goucher, racial equity, and more.
Senior Vice President and Provost Elaine Meyer-Lee discusses academics at Goucher: what’s working best, where our focus should be, and why anti-racism should be at the heart of it.
View Class Notes, Remembered, and In Memoriam, meet Goucher’s new vice president of advancement, Michele Ewing, and hear from AAGC President Jay Gilman ’09. For your privacy, this section is password protected online.
New books published by Goucher faculty and alumnae/i.
Stories from four medical professionals, all Class of 2007 graduates, who are experiencing the realities of COVID-19 every day.
The Tisch gift will establish a fellowship in the Post-baccalaureate Premedical Program to support Goucher’s commitment to foster a diverse and dynamic student body inclusive of underrepresented communities.
Most students don’t begin a college internship expecting a job offer. Gabi Umstead ’20 and Danielle Clapperton ’20 were two of this year’s exceptions at Goucher College.
How does a student choose a college when they can’t visit campus or sit in on a class? At Goucher, the answer is through virtual recruitment efforts.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought Goucher professors a new kind of complex problem to solve: how to make a hands-on learning experience a virtual one.
Graduating seniors have much to celebrate this spring. For four students, that includes $25,000 grants to take part in AmeriCorps’ Teach for America.
For his global work and local impact, Goucher College and the AAGC are proud to present Dante Disparte ’00 with the 2020 Elizabeth Statuta Baker ’70 Public Service Award.
When Goucher moved to remote learning, Associate Professor of Mathematics Phong Le ’03 brought home the 3D printer to do some maintenance. Now, he’s running it all day long, printing parts for face shields for health care workers.
Brandon Arvesen ’04 reflects on how Goucher has influenced his life, both as a student and as a teacher.
With an anonymous donation funding a new position, educational resources, and more, the Student Counseling Center is expanding its campus reach.
Alice G. Pinderhughes ’73 likes to help—she needs to help. She became a lawyer because of Perry Mason, after all, who always cleared his clients’ names on TV.
As these three students proved, becoming a doctor doesn’t have to start with a textbook.
From touring with a rock band to teaching time arts, this is Kent, in his own words.
Whether it is at an outreach event, or in the laundry room, “everyone finds a community here no matter what their story is,” Ramos-Fontán says.
Frenchy Snyder supported women’s rights, stood up for liberal politics, joined a union, and was president of the Baltimore section for the National Council of Jewish Women.
The Goucher College assistant professor of biological sciences and San José native talks about his academic journey and the joys—and six-year-old perils—of living on campus.
Betsy Hestnes ’58 was a little girl in the 1940s who loved all creatures—the insects from her father’s garden, stray cats, and horses, especially horses.
Written in to Goucher’s land are the overlooked stories of the enslaved people who lived there. The student-led Hallowed Ground Project is trying to change that.
For this book, Darcey Steinke ’85 channeled her frustration into her prose to help reframe menopause, female anger, and mortality.
From a peace studies perspective, the chaotic world is a constant. It’s not more chaotic right now, it’s just more chaotic for us as Americans.
While there can’t be just one definitive guide to Baltimore, we’ve covered a few of our essential activities for exploring the city.
Alicia Copeland ’01 loved to teach, and she decided she was never going to be an administrator—that she was certain of.
As students in Emily Billo’s environmental justice class learned, forces of privilege determine access to healthy food. The class collaborated with the Black Yield Institute to understand the issue.
Penny Norrington Orth ’63 and Joe Orth are visiting all 419 of the National Parks Service sites, including monuments, trails, rivers, and battlefields.
The ghosts of Goucher, in their own way, live on through the stories we tell, which is maybe what they wanted all along—to be remembered.
Sydney Hines joins Goucher's men’s basketball as an assistant coach, making her the third woman to serve as a men’s basketball coach in Maryland.
For college transfer students, everything is new again. But these Gophers know they’re right where they’re supposed to be.
A partial history of Burning Man, through the eyes of its CEO: the founder, lover, and Goucher alumna Marian Goodell ’84.
Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski Jr. ’04 grew up near the steel mills at Sparrow’s Point. Seeing the community lose access to good jobs affected him deeply.
Frances Lentz set out to provide families with information and to improve the perception of mental illness.
Ebstein's exhibitions bring back alums to connect with the campus community and encourage students to see the space as theirs.
In 1968, Uneeda Brewer ’70 and 13 of her classmates banded together as the Black Students’ Association.
Professor Rick Pringle fell in love with psychology not once, but twice.
Professor Slocum's work went beyond campus. During a 1982 post-doc at Yale, he participated in one of the first plant experiments aboard the space shuttle.
CREI offers affinity spaces so marginalized people and historically minoritized people can discuss issues and celebrate who they are in positive spaces.
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