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Three awards honoring outstanding service and devotion to the College — the Common Good Award, Alumni Service Award, and Alumni Award for Faculty and Staff — will be presented Saturday, June 2, 2012, during Reunion Convocation. Read about the recipients and their contributions.

Three recent graduates have earned Fulbright Scholarships, which provide funding for study or teaching abroad for one year to promote cross-cultural interaction and increase mutual understanding between people of the U.S. and other countries through educational and cultural exchange. Additionally, three graduates have been awarded Austrian Government Teaching Assistantships, under the auspices of the Austrian-American Fulbright Commission.

The members of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Maine, have elected 24 students into its membership. Election is based primarily on scholarly achievement, and consideration is given to the student’s entire college record. 

Commencement is a day of endings and beginnings for all who walk back down the Museum steps with a diploma in hand, but the next chapter in Sage Santangelo's life began almost immediately after that with a U.S. Marine Corps commissioning ceremony across the Quad.

John Bisbee and Mark Wethli are among five artists honored by the Center for Maine Contemporary Art as the center celebrates a milestone.

During Bowdoin College's 207th Commencement ceremony, 451 bachelor of arts degrees were awarded to students from 40 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and 15 foreign countries.

Bowdoin College held its 2012 Baccalaureate ceremony Friday, May 25, marking the official close of the academic year and celebrating the College's 207th Commencement (to be held Saturday, May 26).

After spending many summers on Cape Cod with her family, Charlotte Richards ’13 says she has a pretty good grasp about what types of services would be most appreciated by tourists.

The Bowdoin Film Society recently hosted its annual year-end student film festival to honor student movies, giving out awards in several categories.

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.

Bowdoin will hold its 207th Commencement ceremony at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 26, 2012, and confer bachelor of arts degrees on 450 graduates.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bowdoin's student-athletes are charging forward to champion sustainability, bringing the fight for the Polar Bears to the Polar Bears.