World-class guests present public discussions and performances throughout the year. Our students and faculty always have amazing accomplishments to report. And you can find out the latest about all that's going on at Goucher in this archive of news releases and feature stories.
View or download a printable version of Goucher's events calendar for April through August 2009.
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Goucher Supports the Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program Goucher College has chosen to participate in the Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program to ensure that veterans returning from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other duty stations have an opportunity to benefit from a private liberal arts college education. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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Goucher College is pleased to announce the Elizabeth Deale Lawrence ’66 and Bryan Hunt Lawrence Prizes for Innovative Teaching, a new award to support recipients during their service in the Teach for America program or at a charter school. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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Goucher College has created the Brooke Peirce Center for Undergraduate Research in Special Collections and Archives to engage undergraduate students in special collections and archives research and hands-on learning. The center will honor Brooke Peirce, a beloved Goucher professor of English from 1954 to 1985 who passed away in 2003. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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This summer, new students at Goucher College will explore the extraordinary technological progress and emerging urban threats that helped shape the United States in the 20th century by reading and discussing The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson. The book is Goucher’s 2009 summer reading assignment for incoming first-year and transfer students. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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Farmers' Markets at Goucher This Fall In keeping with the ongoing emphasis on raising awareness about environmental sustainability—including how food choices affect the global ecosystem—Goucher College will host a series of farmers’ markets throughout the fall semester. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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Eat Local Challenge |
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Kratz Center for Creative Writing Presents Carolyn Chute Carolyn Chute — a novelist and inadvertent leader of a nonpartisan populist militia — will read from her works on Thursday, October 22, at 8 p.m. at a presentation by Goucher College's Kratz Center for Creative Writing. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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Goucher Names 2009-2010 Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence Juliette Wells, a prominent Jane Austen scholar and associate professor of English literature at Manhattanville College, has been named Goucher College’s Burke Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence for 2009-2010. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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"Reading Lolita in Tehran" Author Azar Nafisi to Speak at Commencement Azar Nafisi, award-winning author of the acclaimed memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran, will deliver the keynote address at Goucher College’s 118th Commencement on Friday, May 22, 2009. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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Donning of the Kente Cloth |
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The winners of Spring 2009 Innovation Grants have been named. Now in its 11th year, the program has provided seed money to implement many exciting and effective campus projects proposed by Goucher students, faculty, and staff. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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Goucher College Undertakes Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Goucher College recently contracted with Environmental Health and Engineering (EH&E), Inc., a Massachusetts-based environmental and engineering consulting firm, to complete a greenhouse gas emissions inventory, as required by the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment. Goucher College President Sanford Ungar signed the commitment in the summer of 2007. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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History Professor Robert Beachy Wins Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship Robert Beachy, associate professor of history at Goucher College, has been named a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow for his work on homosexuality in German history. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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Playworks |
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A Moving Narrative: Facing Immigration Goucher students interviewed and photographed local immigrants to create A Moving Narrative: Facing Immigration, an exhibition that will be on display in the college’s Geen Community Center May 5-8. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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Goucher College’s Musical Theatre Workshop Presents “Nine” |
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Dr. Bernard L. Herman Gives the 2009 Irwin C. Schroedl Jr. Lecture |
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Celebrate Gaypril 2009 |
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Goucher Chamber Symphony Spring Concert |
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Three Goucher Teams Play for Landmark Titles Goucher's No. 1 seeded men's lacrosse team will play in the Landmark Conference semi-final championship tournament on Wednesday, April 29, at 4 p.m. in Gopher Stadium. Goucher's women's tennis and women's lacrosse teams will also play in two Landmark Conference post-season games that day. [full story] |
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Best known as Barack Obama’s chief presidential campaign manager, David Plouffe will present a President's Forum lecture titled “The Obama Phenomenon: What’s Next?” on Monday, April 27, at 8 p.m. in Goucher College’s Kraushaar Auditorium. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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Letters, Words, and Phrases |
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The Skin of Our Teeth |
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2009 Dancers in Action Spring Dance Concert |
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Kratz Center for Creative Writing Presents Jessica Anya Blau Jessica Anya Blau—whose first novel, “The Summer of Naked Swim Parties,” was a fixture on summer reading lists last year—will read from her works on Thursday, April 23, at 8 p.m. in Goucher College’s Haebler Memorial Chapel. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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Low Carbon Diet Day |
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Goucher Presents a Conversation With Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Goucher College presents a conversation with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state, on Thursday, April 16, at 7 p.m. in Kraushaar Auditorium. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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2009 Visiting Scholar of the Roxana Cannon Arsht Center for Ethics and Leadership: Helen Thomas Regarded as the “dean of the Washington, D.C., press corps,” veteran political correspondent Helen Thomas will give a lecture titled “Front Row at the White House” on Thursday, April 2, at 8 p.m. in Goucher College’s Kraushaar Auditorium. Thomas is the 2009 visiting scholar of the Roxana Cannon Arsht Center for Ethics and Leadership at Goucher College. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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The 2009 Fisher Music Residency: Karen Gomyo, Violin Violin prodigy Karen Gomyo will be the featured performer at Goucher College’s 23rd Annual Janet and Avery Fisher Music Residency. The concert will be held at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 27, in the college’s Merrick Lecture Hall. [full story] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu |
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Ask Big Questions |
25th Women Writing About Women Anniversary Celebration
Goucher College will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Women Writing About Women Symposium on March 30 and 31 with a roundtable discussion among three prominent former writers-in-residence, and a keynote address by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey.
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Goucher Celebrates Women’s History Month 2009
Goucher College is celebrating Women’s History Month with the following series of events, performances, and lectures. [full story]
Goucher Celebrates Fusion 2009
Fusion, Goucher’s annual celebration of diversity and multiculturalism, will be held from Monday, March 23, through Friday, March 27. [full story]
Goucher College’s Sixth Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Goucher College will hold its Sixth Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 4, in Buchner Hall of the Alumnae/i House. [full story]
The 49th Annual Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Lecture-Performance: Nathan Gunn
Nathan Gunn, one of the most acclaimed and in-demand baritones performing today, will be the featured artist for Goucher College’s 49th Annual Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Lecture-Performance, held on Sunday, March 1, 2009, at 7 p.m. in Kraushaar Auditorium.
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