Goucher Receives $500,000 Grant For Innovation

Press release from Goucher College: Goucher College has been awarded a $500,000 Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Fund grant from the Maryland Department of Commerce to establish an endowed professorship in integrative data analytics.

This data science faculty position will support the 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.

“Goucher College has long been recognized as one of the most innovative colleges in
the country, and this E-Nnovation award will allow us to expand our data science initiatives
and our new Integrative Data Analytics major,” said Kent Devereaux, Goucher College
president. “We want to thank the state and the Maryland Department of Commerce for
their recognition of Goucher and our efforts to support student success in the jobs
of the future here in the local economy.”

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.

“Commerce is celebrating Maryland’s innovative businesses and entrepreneurs in 2020,
so we’re very pleased to provide our world-class higher education institutions with
these awards, which will drive future innovation and economic growth,” said Maryland
Commerce Secretary Kelly M. Schulz. “This year, more than ever, we recognize the importance
of supporting bold, creative new ideas to help Maryland--and the world--overcome obstacles
and thrive.”

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.