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Video: Join the Fun at Reunion Weekend 2012!

Wed, 05/23/2012 - 14:33
As Bowdoin Outing Club Director Mike Woodruff '87 attests there will be plenty of fun things to do at Reunion 2012. Whether you’re looking to reconnect with friends in person, visit old haunts, or simply see what’s new on campus, Reunion Weekend, May 31-June 3, 2012, has a lot to offer.
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Bowdoin to Award 450 Degrees at 207th Commencement May 26

Tue, 05/22/2012 - 20:50
Bowdoin will hold its 207th Commencement ceremony at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 26, 2012, and confer bachelor of arts degrees on 450 graduates.
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Bowdoin Trustees Honor Four Retiring Faculty Members

Thu, 05/17/2012 - 15:54
Four Bowdoin faculty members were elected to emeritus status during the May 11-12, 2012 meeting of the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees: Tom Cornell, Jane Knox, Jim McCalla, and Craig McEwen.
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Art Majors Display the 'Art of Too Many Dinner Parties'

Wed, 05/16/2012 - 15:50
Bowdoin art majors in the Class of 2012 held a show Friday night in the Fort Andross Mill in downtown Brunswick, displaying a wide range of accomplished art.
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Summer Starts Early for 'Community Matters in Maine' Fellows

Wed, 05/16/2012 - 15:38
This year’s Community Matters in Maine fellows gathered recently to hear more about what to expect from the best source: alumni of the program.
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Bowdoin College Trustees Elect New Members, Vice Chair and Approve Emeritus Status

Wed, 05/16/2012 - 02:24
The Bowdoin College Board of Trustees elected ­­four new members and a vice chair, re-elected three members, and approved the election of three trustees to emeritus status during meetings held May 11-13, 2012, on campus.
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Students Imprint their Imaginations onto Books

Sun, 05/13/2012 - 15:16
Artist books made by the students in Carrie Scanga’s Printmaking I class are on display in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library for the next three weeks.
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Grateful Opportunity: Scholarship Appreciation Luncheon 2012

Fri, 05/11/2012 - 15:07
Bowdoin’s annual Scholarship Appreciation Luncheon — an event President Barry Mills has called “the most important gathering of the year at Bowdoin" — was held Thursday, May 10, 2012, in Thorne Hall.
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A Transformed Earth and Oceanographic Science Department Blossoms

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 16:44
In the past, it was common for Bowdoin’s small but solid geology department to attract just a handful of new student majors — three some years, seven other years. But this spring, the department, which has been renamed Earth and Oceanographic Science, had 27 sophomores declare their major in this field.
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Video: Museum Pieces 2012 — Part I

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 16:32
The annual tradition of holding student dances on the steps of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art had to be rescheduled this year because of rain, but the wait was worth it. On a glorious Monday evening, students performed dances they’d been practicing all semester, from modern ensembles to belly dances. The second half of Museum Pieces will be shown next week.
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Bowdoin Green Athletes: Teaming Up to Champion Sustainability

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 15:06
Bowdoin's student-athletes are charging forward to champion sustainability, bringing the fight for the Polar Bears to the Polar Bears.
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Departmental Awards Presented at 2012 Honors Day

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 13:56
Bowdoin College held its 16th annual Honors Day ceremony to recognize publicly the college-wide academic and extracurricular achievements of Bowdoin students and faculty. The ceremony was held May 9, 2012, at Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall.
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Sarah Siwak '13 Awarded State Department Scholarship

Tue, 05/08/2012 - 18:28
Sarah Siwak '13, of Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., has been selected for a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study intensive advanced Russian during the summer of 2012.
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Franz Shares SuperPAC Expertise on NPR

Fri, 05/04/2012 - 15:19
Associate Professor of Government Michael Franz weighs in on the role of superPACS in an NPR piece looking at how these funding machines are tied into the apparent increase in negative campaign ads. Franz is part of a team examining the political ads on broadcast TV and national cable.
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Mariya Ilyas '13, Amar Patel '13 and Sustainable Bowdoin Receive Campus Compact Awards

Fri, 05/04/2012 - 13:21
Juniors Mariya Ilyas and Amar Patel, as well as Sustainable Bowdoin, have received awards from Maine Campus Compact, a consortium of 18 higher education institutions dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement and service learning in higher education.
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Computer Science Major Helps Make Advances Against Viral Attacks

Wed, 05/02/2012 - 15:26
Jesus Navarro ’13 started out playing video games as a kid. Then he began fixing the video games when they broke. Then he became interested in building computers. Today, he’s breaking new ground in computer security.
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Bowdoin Entrepreneurs: The Social Enterpreneur

Wed, 05/02/2012 - 15:15
Senior Sarah Glaser has set up an import/export business to help Ghanaian artists sell their work in the United States.
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Bowdoin History Jumps Online

Tue, 05/01/2012 - 15:41
Books on the history of the College, long out of print and rarely available outside the confines of the Bowdoin College Library, are now freely accessible on the Web from anywhere in the world thanks to Bowdoin’s participation in the LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative, a Sloan Foundation grant-subsidized program that has made digitization easy and affordable for libraries and cultural institutions across the country.
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Imagine the Reaction: Chemistry Department Yields Hidden Treasure

Mon, 04/30/2012 - 14:44
Valuable lessons abound in Bowdoin’s Chemistry Department, but rarely are those pearls of wisdom actually worth their weight in gold. A 24-karat gold bar, likely the subject of scientific experiments long ago, lay inert in the old chemistry stockroom in Cleaveland Hall for decades, and was moved to a new storage area when Druckenmiller opened.
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Video: 'Polar Bear Uprising' Dance Event April 28

Fri, 04/27/2012 - 15:44
The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, with help from students, is organizing a mass dance event to show support for saving Polar Bears and the Arctic. Set for noon, Saturday, April 28, folks are invited to wear white and get their groove on in what is hoped to be a giant dance party that also includes a T-shirt giveaway.
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