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