Academics

An independent study project leads government major into research on the live electric performances of Miles Davis, the man who “changed the face of jazz at least six times” before his death in 1991.1

Student interviews generations of mill workers coping with the closure of the local paper mill. In spite of the town’s devastation, she came away from those conversations with a rare lesson in resilience and the positive influence of education.

Deep under an Italian mountain, scientists are attempting to prove the existence of “dark matter,” undetectable particles so plentiful they are believed to account for 90 percent of the universe’s mass. Deep in the basement of Searles Science Building, Jimmy Lindsay ‘09 is trying to help them find it.

During an off-campus study program in Australia, art history major Sean Sullivan ’07 did groundbreaking research on sustainable surfboards. When it was published by a major surfing organization, it earned him a place at the podium as keynote speaker at a major international surf summit.

Students are helping with Bowdoin research that may give state marine biologists a foothold on locating, and preserving, shad spawning grounds.

What were the chances that two student artists roaming over Bowdoin‘s 100 acres of woodlands and coastline would be drawn to the same root-bound cliff for inspiration?

An anthropology major wanted to explore the experience of people displaced from their homes after Hurricane Katrina, so she wrote and she wrote and directed a play about it.