Campus Life

The Bowdoin women's frisbee team, Chaos Theory, drove to St. Simon's, Ga. over spring break to face teams from all over the country, including Lehigh, University of Texas at Arlington, American University, Rochester, Syracuse and a few others.

Golden Owens has been doing taekwondo since she was four; she started classes a few years after her dad (also a master) took up the martial art.

Mark Wethli, Bowdoin’s A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Art, took nine of his studio art majors to New York City for a gallery-, studio- and museum-packed weekend.

Bowdoin College chefs recently traveled to Amherst, Mass. to join cooks from five other colleges named by the Princeton Review as serving “Best Campus Food.”

The men’s basketball team is one of many teams at Bowdoin that has worked with the nonprofit Team IMPACT to recruit a young player with life-threatening illnesses. The basketball team’s newest member, Caleb Merrill, a basketball fan, helps motivate the team and gives them inspiration.

Thirty students interested in finance gathered in Druckenmiller Hall on a recent Saturday afternoon to learn the financial models they’ll need to know for entry-level finance positions.

The 9th Annual Doug Pollock Polar Chef Cooking Competition this year in Thorne Dining Hall pitted a team of seasoned faculty and staff against a team of fresh students.

Dr. Bernie Hershberger launched the meditation series four years ago, and in the ensuing years has expanded the offerings as interest in meditation has grown on campus. He estimates that roughly 100 students regularly attend meditation classes, and that there are more practicing on their own or with friends.

Alice Henly, a research fellow at the National Resources Defense Council, recently visited Bowdoin to give a talk to students who are “green reps” for their sports teams. Following her visit, she wrote up her observations of the green action on campus.

The men's ice hockey team will host UMass Dartmouth in a Division III Men's Ice Hockey First Round game tonight in Watson Arena.

Thirty students interested in finance gathered in Druckenmiller Hall on a recent Saturday afternoon to learn the financial models they’ll need to know for entry-level finance positions.

For the last two weeks, Broadway has been at Bowdoin, workshopping a new project.

Last weekend, The Bowdoin College Department of Theater and Dance presented their spring semester show, Quake by Melanie Marnich.

After working for nine months on their game Hatcher, Rob Visentin ’14 and Samantha Broccoli ’15 are ready to release the game to the App store in March.

Last Saturday night, many Bowdoin students braved the blizzard to attend the Latin American Student Organization's Valentines Day Auction. LASO hosts the auction annually to raise money for a local charity and to bring the romantic spirit of Valentine’s Day to Bowdoin’s campus.

Despite having had exposure to poor people in her home country of Nepal, Apekshya Prasai '16 said she was stunned when she arrived at Bowdoin and witnessed the suffering of some of Maine's homeless.

By a quirk of the calendar, Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year falls on the first day of second-semester classes. So Bowdoin has a rare chance to celebrate King's life and legacy with an evening of readings and musical performances by students and talks by Bowdoin staff and faculty.

At the end of the fall semester, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art hosted a short-lived but intriguing show on the influence of Michelangelo.

Students in Eileen Johnson's Introduction to GIS class proved that maps can be a powerful tool for the common good.

For one day this past fall, students in Prof. Vladimir Douhovnikoff's Forest Ecology and Conservation class departed from their normal routines to visit a working tree farm in Brunswick.