Goucher Receives $448,000 Mellon Foundation Grant for Environmental Studies Program

December 11, 2009 |

Goucher College has received a $448,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to help launch a new environmental studies program.

Combined with a gift last spring of $1.5 million from Robert Meyerhoff to create an endowed faculty chair in Environmental Studies, the Mellon grant will be a major boost in the college’s ability to start a first-class interdisciplinary major in academic year 2010-2011.

The Mellon Foundation grant will provide funding for a visiting professor in the field for three years; summer workshops during that period for faculty to develop additional courses in environmental studies; two visiting scholars every semester for three years, who will spend time on campus with students and give public presentations; and summer research support, including for students who will work with the Meyerhoff professor and the visiting professor.