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.
A hobby can bring both joy and frustration, as finding a balance of work and pleasure can be a tricky puzzle.
Thirty years after living in Jeffery House, a group of seven Goucher women found new friendships in each other.
First jobs teach us a lot. Our first jobs after college can help start our career paths, or help us decide to do something else.
When it comes to a career in dance, don’t let fear be the reason you never try.
When it launched in 2014, the Goucher Video Application was the first of its kind in college admissions. This semester, the first cohort of GVA students graduated.
Last month, Goucher College President José Antonio Bowen joined thought leaders from across the nation at SXSW EDU 2019, a prominent teaching and learning conference.
Brendan O’Meara, M.F.A. '08, loved listening to creative people discuss their process, so he started a podcast on the art and craft of telling true stories.
In the spring semester, Goucher created a League of Legends esports team to compete in the Division III Landmark Conference, which introduced esports for the first time.
It's important to Tierra Dorsey to meet people where they are, so she's having conversations with alumnae/i and the Goucher community at large.
In February 2019, Goucher College honored Dr. La Jerne Terry Cornish with the Marguerite Barland ’60 Merit Award.
Williams has learned that Goucher is a welcoming place to be.“They want you to feel good with being different and with being who you are.”
In December 2018, Donte Small ’18 and Nia Vargus ’18 presented at a conference on race in Curaçao. It was a gratifying end to their Intensive Course Abroad.
The faculty approved two new majors in December, integrative data analytics and professional and creative writing. Both programs are now before the Maryland Higher Education Commission for review.
"Nothing in the definition of recreation has to be physical. It’s a form of self-expression, which is exactly what exercise is. I think art can tie into that a lot."
With a concentration in environmental science, Sam Glickstein was already interested in intensive agriculture when he got the chance to build a prototype of a hydroponic system in Goucher’s greenhouse.
To better prepare students for professional success, Goucher officially launched the Goucher Advantage last fall, which integrates career education directly into the curriculum and into students’ lives.
Goucher students are examining something in the water. By testing water samples for microplastics, nitrates, phosphates, dissolved oxygen, bacteria, and pH balance, they discovered a different kind of monster.
A deeper look into The Science of Water: Wren Wakeman ’19 and Assistant Professor Anna Jozwick identify beneficial bacteria in zebrafish skin mucus.
Theatre Professor Michael Curry is the current chair of the faculty’s Curriculum Committee, which, with the Budget and Planning Committee, oversaw Goucher’s program prioritization.
Ever since her accident, Erin Field has made it her mission to stay positive. “You can’t plan your whole future. Make every day the best that you can.”
In high school, Julian Dowell ’22 wanted to be Huey Freeman—the black revolutionary from The Boondocks. Huey and his brother unraveled systemic societal problems together under the guise of comedy.
In the early days of Bernadette Tutinas' career, the technology consisted of chalk and a blackboard. Very quickly, the Math Program began to use computers, starting with exploratory computer labs for calculus.
For years, Barbara Roswell edited a national academic journal on service learning and community literacy called “Reflections.” It was the second journal ever devoted to the topic.
George Delahunty likes to know how the world works—specifically, the world of physiology and endocrinology, which, basically, is the whole world to Delahunty.
Moreno-López doesn’t let students leave her office until they are in a better place, even if it means shutting the door and rescheduling appointments.
Goucher College’s Welch Center for Graduate and Professional Studies is launching more than 10 new mostly online programs for a range of students, from undergraduate to professionals.
Goucher prides itself on bringing diverse groups of people together to solve complex problems. We spoke to a first-generation college student, an international student, and a former expat student to find out if that’s really what’s happening.
Glass doors and walls are very important to Andres Zapata ’98, co-founder of idfive, a marketing company in Baltimore.
It is 9 a.m. the day before Thanksgiving, and Robert Bull ’93 is cooking a southern homemade feast for 50 people. It’s something he and his wife do every year.
Jean Perez is thinking about outlets. The new director of wellness sits in the new Wellness Center, and someone from Facilities is asking where to put a desk.
Goucher’s campus, with its 287 wooded acres in the heart of Towson, is an obvious draw for the students who come here. But they aren’t the only ones to call Goucher home. Be they young staffers or program directors, a number of faculty and staff, as well as their families, have always taken advantage of the opportunity to do the same.
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