News & Updates

A message from [UNDAUNTED] campaign chair Robert Bull ’93
In 2015 Goucher launched [UNDAUNTED], a comprehensive campaign, to raise $100M to enhance our campus facilities, enrich our students’ experience, endow professorships, and establish scholarships. To date, our community has raised $80M and has completed four transformational capital projects.

Research & rebounds: More than half of the women’s basketball team is pursuing science degrees.
For Kyani Quarles ’23, it was growing up around animals. For Anise Williams ’22, it was a passion for being able to assist wrongly accused criminals. Quarles and Williams are two of the eight science majors on the 15-member Goucher College women’s basketball roster this season.

Goucher College establishes $2M endowed professorship in biological sciences and chemistry
Matched by alumnae/i contributions, the Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Fund has awarded Goucher College $1 million to establish an endowed professorship to promote research and technology.

The protectors
At the Environmental Protection Agency, three Goucher graduates are working hard to protect our water, land, and air. To do so, they must be vigilant, committed, and adaptable—traits they honed long ago.

The art and science of a family business
Today, Laboratorios Borinquen serves thousands of patients in Puerto Rico, with more than 700 employees working at 40 labs spread throughout the island.

Paying scholarship support forward
The Isabel Srour ’21 Endowed Scholarship Fund provides financial aid to students, with a preference given to students interested in music.

Leading the way for generations of scientists
The Science Research Center is a vital pillar of Goucher’s [UNDAUNTED] comprehensive campaign.

Three Goucher faculty embark on ‘Year of Exploration’
Three Goucher College faculty members have been selected as the inaugural recipients of the Myra Berman Kurtz Fund for Faculty Research and Exploration of the Sciences (KRES Fund) Year of Exploration.

Inspiring success
Goucher advances innovation and sparks students’ interest in STEM fields with our Summer Science Research Program thanks to the support of loyal donors.

Asian studies minor launches with new Luetkemeyer Chair professor
This fall, Goucher College will launch an Asian studies minor focused on that region’s history, politics, and philosophies. Complementing this new program is the recently hired Luetkemeyer Chair professor, Yu Chih (Clay) Chou.

Goucher College receives nearly $900,000 donation to support student scholarships
With a generous gift, Goucher College announces the Anne Hoover ’67 Scholarship Fund to recruit exceptional students from traditionally underrepresented geographic regions, both domestically and internationally.

Goucher names inaugural Tisch Fellow in Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program
Yaphet Getachew has been named the inaugural Tisch Fellow in Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program at Goucher College. Drawn to the role physicians can play in addressing the impact of systemic racism on the health and well-being of communities of color, he’ll begin at Goucher this summer.