Environmental Studies

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.

Roux Distinguished Scholar, Climate Activist Ayana Johnson Receives TIME Earth Award

Bowdoin’s Roux Distinguished Scholar Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has picked up a prestigious TIME Earth Award for her efforts to address the climate crisis. In her acceptance speech, she urged the world to work much faster to combat climate change.

Teona Williams ’12 Delivers a Talk on Black Feminism, Hunger, and the Fight for Freedom

Williams, who now teaches at Rutgers University, returned to Bowdoin recently to deliver her talk, “When Hunger is the Disaster: Fannie Lou Hamer and June Jordan’s Food Justice Work in the Mississippi Delta.”

Students Share Summer Research Projects at Symposium

Students representing a variety of disciplines gathered on the Quad last Friday to showcase a range of information-packed posters highlighting their summer research projects.

Phil Gregory shakes hands with a student

Climate Litigator Philip Gregory ’76 on Young People’s Rights to a Healthy Climate

One of the nation’s leading environmental and constitutional attorneys, Phil Gregory recently spent two days at Bowdoin to discuss his work representing young people who are pushing governments to address their contributions to climate change.

Keep Expressing Yourself and Stay Human, Urges AI Expert and Author Brian Christian

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.