Environmental Studies

Bowdoin Students Explore Many Paths to Sustainability

Several students with funded internships are learning to use the tools of technology, finance, and policy to help the environment.

Summer Support Fuels Research, Internships, and Service for 456 Students

Many Bowdoin students use the summer to explore in depth a topic or field that most interests them. While many stay on campus, others travel to destinations around the world.

Backpacks titled Futureproof by Carrie Scanga. Image: Zack Bowen

Scholarship, Creativity, and Recognition: Celebrating Faculty Achievements

From prestigious awards and major research grants to acclaimed performances, exhibitions, publications, and public scholarship, Bowdoin faculty members contributed to their fields in significant and creative ways throughout the spring semester.

Screen grab from WCSH's "207" coverage of the Audubon book page-turning

Flipping the Bird: Audubon Book Page-Turning Spotlighted on WCSH

WCSH’s nightly newsmagazine 207 captured the excitement surrounding the monthly event where attendees gather to turn the pages of John James Audubon’s exceptionally rare The Birds of America.

Multimedia Performance Caps Community Climate Symposium

A campus symposium exploring climate issues connects faculty and students from Bowdoin and elsewhere with community groups. The daylong event was followed by a special musical performance inspired by climate activism in Maine.

Environmental Leadership: Toby Kiers ’98 Youngest Woman To Win Tyler Prize

Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers ’98 has become the youngest woman to win the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for her work studying mycorrhizal fungi and restoring ecosystems using native fungi.

Solar panels at Schiller Coastal Studies Center

In Daylong Challenge, Students Design Small-Scale Renewable Fixes for Maine

More than thirty Bowdoin students opted to spend a recent Saturday doing something a little different: working together to tackle pressing energy issues.

Martin Abel, Ireri Elizabeth Chávez-Bárcenas, Javier Cikota, Fernando Nascimento Samia Shabnam Rahimtoola, Mary Rogalski, Maron Wein Sorenson

Board of Trustees Awards Tenure to Seven Faculty Members

Bowdoin scholars from across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences have been rewarded for their academic achievements with promotion from assistant professor to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2026.

Asher Savel ’26 Digs into Maine's Trailblazing Food Sovereignty Law

An environmental studies and government major is spending his senior year researching Maine’s groundbreaking food sovereignty law, which was passed in 2017 to protect people’s right to food and support small farmers.

How to Use AI to Combat Climate Change

An expert in computational linguistics, Dan Loehr gave a talk at Bowdoin on how AI is and can be used to address climate change by mitigating emissions from carbon-intensive sectors, modeling climate change, and capturing carbon.