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Still fighting: A story of reproductive health and rights

A history of the movement for reproductive health care, including birth control, better birth outcomes, and expanded access for underserved communities, through the eyes of Goucher graduates

100 years: Imagining the future

What will the next 100 years bring? We spoke to six Goucher professors to see what they hope, or fear, will happen in the future of their fields.

Class Notes – Winter 2021

To view Class Notes, Remembered, and In Memoriam from the Winter 2021 Goucher Magazine, please enter the provided password. The

Like father, like daughter, three decades later

More than 30 years ago, the first male students enrolled at Goucher College. Today, some of their daughters are building on the legacy.

Goucher Today

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.

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Goucher from home

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.

Goucher News Feature

Not content with tradition: The racial justice teach-in

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.

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Q&A with Provost Elaine Meyer-Lee

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.

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Class Notes and more

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.

Promoted to employee, no application necessary

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.

Recruiting a new class through Zoom

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.

Hands-on learning from home

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.

Goucher College senior students in class

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Let’s raise our glasses—from all over the world—to Goucher’s senior students

Graduating seniors have much to celebrate this spring. For four students, that includes $25,000 grants to take part in AmeriCorps’ Teach for America.

Goucher College Associate Professor Phong Le

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Goucher professor makes 3D printed face shields for Baltimore hospitals

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.

The essentials to living your best century

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.

A reluctant student turns eager teacher

Brandon Arvesen ’04 reflects on how Goucher has influenced his life, both as a student and as a teacher.

Before the white coat

As these three students proved, becoming a doctor doesn’t have to start with a textbook.

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The essentials of community

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.

The six lives of Kent Devereaux: The musician, artist, producer, director, professor, and president

From touring with a rock band to teaching time arts, this is Kent, in his own words.

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Set the table: What does your plate say about food accessibility?

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.

The 419-item bucket list: One couple visits every National Parks site

Penny Norrington Orth ’63 and Joe Orth are visiting all 419 of the National Parks Service sites, including monuments, trails, rivers, and battlefields.

Ghosts of Goucher: Whispers from the ones who never left

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 men’s basketball staff

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.

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Paul Henderson exhibit comes to the library

The Goucher College Library welcomes Paul Henderson: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era, a traveling exhibit from the Maryland Historical Society opening on September 19, 2019.

Love and dust

A partial history of Burning Man, through the eyes of its CEO: the founder, lover, and Goucher alumna Marian Goodell ’84.

First day of college, take two for Goucher transfer students

For college transfer students, everything is new again. But these Gophers know they’re right where they’re supposed to be.

Hobbies can be more fulfilling than careers

(Don’t) quit your day job

A hobby can bring both joy and frustration, as finding a balance of work and pleasure can be a tricky puzzle.

Goucher days, continued

Thirty years after living in Jeffery House, a group of seven Goucher women found new friendships in each other.

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First jobs (after college)

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.

Dancing on a world of possibilities

When it comes to a career in dance, don’t let fear be the reason you never try.

First cohort of Goucher Video applicants graduates

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.

President Bowen joins thought leaders at SXSW EDU 2019

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

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.

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Goucher students enter a different kind of sports battle

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.

Tierra Dorsey campaigns for Goucher

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.

Alumni Spotlight

Sam Glickstein ’12

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.

Alumni Spotlight

Todd Troester ’15

Todd Troester ’15 has been building connections and helping others his entire life. Recently, his passions have led him to a kind of social activism.

Living lives of purpose

Dante Disparte ’00 believes “that the most important thing people need to learn is to learn how to learn,” a skill he said Goucher gave him.

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Maryland folklife takes center stage

In an increasingly fast-paced globalized society, how does one preserve ancient traditions and cultural heritage? Over the past year, a group of professors and students from Goucher’s M.A.C.S. program has been working on two projects addressing that question.

Women of letters

Summer at Goucher College is marked by possibility—animals wander even more boldly, rain threatens many afternoons, and exciting discoveries could come at any time.

Alumni Spotlight

New Board of Trustees Chair Ruth Shapiro Lenrow ’74

After serving for more than a decade on the Goucher College Board of Trustees, Ruth Shapiro Lenrow ’74 became board chair in July, previously serving as the board’s secretary and vice chair, as well as gala chair for two years.

Goucher Today

Living and learning together

Anyone who has spent time on Goucher’s campus over the past two years knows intimately that the college is undergoing an exciting period of transformation.

Goucher’s secret ‘code girls’ helped end WWII

In 1942, in a locked room at the top of a building in downtown Baltimore, 10 young women learned cryptology

Goucher Today

Ahead of their time

More Goucher students than ever are landing internships, driven by a desire for specialized career experiences they might not encounter in a more typical summer job. Here are a few of their stories.

Goucher Today

Giving Goucher students a career advantage

Finding your purpose and figuring out how to lead a fulfilling life can be a daunting challenge for anyone, especially young adults learning to navigate their way through college.

Alumni Spotlight

[UNDAUNTED] Phong Le ’03

After five years at Niagara University teaching abstract algebra and practical statistics, a faculty position opened at Goucher College. Phong Le ’03 was only a year away from tenure, but he says the decision came down to where he wanted his career to go. This was Le’s [UNDAUNTED] moment.

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