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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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Love and Dust

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

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The Evolution of a Revolution for Black Culture

In 1968, Uneeda Brewer ’70 and 13 of her classmates banded together as the Black Students’ Association.

Hobbies can be more fulfilling than careers

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(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.

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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.

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Dancing on a World of Possibilities

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

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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.

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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

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.

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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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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 under the supervision of a Pulitzer Prize winner and a Navy officer.

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Goucher College’s Biggest Event of the Year Will Honor the Past and Celebrate the Future

Preparations for the 2018 Goucher Awards Gala and Celebration are under way, and it will be a memorable night for the college.

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Students and Alumnae/i Help Hurricane Relief Efforts

When junior Duncan Miller ’18 saw the projected path of Hurricane Irma, he reported for duty with the Habersham County Sheriff’s Department.

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Problem Solvers

Goucher has never been short of creative thinkers looking for problems to solve.

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Rising Higher

Goucher’s award-winning Equestrian Program has been a fixture in the life of the college for the past 91 years.

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Tennis, Anyone?

At 100, Evelyn Dyke Schroedl ’62 aces philanthropy.

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Sticking to the Facts

Goucher’s Creative Nonfiction Program celebrates 20 years.

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Finding Sanctuary

Young refugees make a new home in Baltimore with the help of Goucher students.

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Summer Science

When everyone else goes home, it’s time to hit the lab.

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A Bermudian Nutcracker

Bringing dancers together, even across oceans

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Suffragette City

Untangling the past of a “Nursery for Militant Suffragists”

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Building a 21st-Century Curriculum

Rethinking the liberal arts at Goucher College

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Learning Behind Bars

Meet the students of Goucher’s Prison Education Partnership.

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Finding Peace

In honor of Dr. Joseph Morton’s life, work, and beliefs, an excerpt from his unpublished memoirs.

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Shipwrecked!

Marilyn Southard Warshawsky ’68 tells the story of John Franklin Goucher, educator, world traveler, philanthropist, a founder of the Woman’s College—and occasional maritime hero.