Prizes and Awards

Student Prizes

Current Goucher students are eligible for the following prizes:

• The Applestein-Sweren Book Collecting Prize
• The Julia Rogers Research Prizes
• International Book Purchasing Program (information coming soon)

Fellowships

Fellowships are available for Goucher students, alumnae/i and visiting scholars:

• Peirce Fellowships, supported through the Peirce Center, are open to current Goucher students
• The Mears Fellowship is open to alumnae/i pursuing a career in Library and Information Science
• The Burke-Austen Scholar-in-Residence Program is offered, on a competitive basis, by Special Collections & Archives to scholars who wish to research in the Burke-Austen Collection.

Our Awards

The Library and the Athenaeum have also won several prestigious awards, including:

• The John Cotton Dana Award
•  Library Journal's New Landmark Library
• A CLIR Grant to identify and catalog hidden collections