Goucher College Awarded $1M In Total Grants From The Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Fund

Press release from Goucher College:

February 16, 2021

Goucher College has received matching funds of $500,000 from the Maryland E-Nnovation
Initiative Fund from the Maryland Department of Commerce for a total of $1,000,000
to support the endowed professorship in integrative data analytics. This new grant
is in addition to the previous $500,000 grant received from the same fund in 2020.

This data science faculty position will support Goucher’s new integrative data analytics
major and lead programming to develop students’ skills that can be applied to data
analytics in local, state, and federal governmental agencies, as well as with non-profit
organizations and local and global corporations.

“This matching grant, which brings the state’s total support to $1,000,000, further
recognizes the innovation and importance of Goucher’s new integrative data analytics
program and the long-term impact it will have on our students and the region,” said
Kent Devereaux, Goucher College president. “We are grateful to the state and the Maryland
Department of Commerce for their ongoing support that will allow us to fund the endowed
professorship fully.”

Through the new endowed professorship in integrative data analytics, Goucher students
will be taught to analyze economic trends, social media monitoring, demographics,
geographic information systems, medical records, public health data, image recognition,
environmental modeling, financial transactions, market research, and much more. Goucher
students will graduate with the ability to analyze large, robust data sets with an
ever-present human and ethical focus, a perspective that Goucher College has a unique
ability to provide.

“This grant will allow us to hire faculty experts in the emerging field of data science,”
said Phong Le, associate professor of mathematics at Goucher College. “Another colleague
in data science will give us greater capacity to develop integrative and cross-disciplinary
experiences for our students. By the fall, we will have a new colleague who will contribute
to our new integrative data analytics students.”

Read more about Goucher’s integrative data analytics program here.

This press release was produced by Goucher College. The views expressed here are the author’s own.