The best-selling writer and researcher visits campus to meet with students and faculty and to deliver an address to the Bowdoin community. It’s all part of the College’s Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity, which aims to prepare students to lead in a world reshaped by artificial intelligence.
Biologist Toby Kiers ’98 and Wabanaki basket maker Jeremy Frey H’25 are both being honored by the MacArthur Foundation. They are among the twenty-two “exceptional, creative, and inspiring” people receiving a so-called genius grant this year.
Students gathered on campus recently for an immersive day-long workshop exploring many aspects of artificial intelligence and giving them hands-on experience of working with the technology. The Generative AI Hackathon was part of the Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanities.
Bowdoin is proud to announce a $50 million gift—the largest in our 231-year history—from Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings ’83 to launch the Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity.
Each September, Bowdoin’s Office of Admissions rolls out the red carpet for high school students from across Maine to show them the College values them and why they would love studying here.
Felipe Pérez ’27 spent his summer in the sky. As a intern for LifeFlight of Maine, a nonprofit air ambulance service, Pérez got a bird’s-eye view of emergency medicine in Maine.
Hundreds of students, staff, and community members turned out on September 17 to hear reproductive justice and human rights activist Loretta Ross discuss her work to create a more compassionate and just society by “calling in” rather than canceling others.
Generations of alumni met friends on campus for the annual Homecoming weekend, where they were also invited to games, meetings, concerts, museum tours, and talks.
