Visiting Scholars Enrich Bowdoin Campus, Classrooms

A leading Inuit activist, a MacArthur Genius Award-winner, and an internationally acclaimed pianist are among the scholars and artists in residence at Bowdoin this year.

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Tennessee Williams Meets 'American Gothic' in World Premiere

Bowdoin Theater Professor Davis Robinson stages another Tennessee Williams world-premiere with an early one act, American Gothic.

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Cricket 'Treadmill' Gives Neuroscience Researchers A Leg Up

Some workout! Neuroscientist Hadley Horch and her students have developed a cricket "treadmill" to help them studythe cricket's remarkable ability to regenerate damaged auditory neurons.

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Bowdoin Student Researchers Use Underwater Video Cameras

Bowdoin student researchers have been getting a fish-eye view of important underwater vegetation near Fort Popham and other areas this summer with underwater cameras. See a video.

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Bowdoin Professor Seeks Out Experimental Chinese Women Artists

Bowdoin Asian Studies professor Shu-chin Tsui spent the summer tracking down some of the most avant garde artists working in China today for what she hopes will be among the first English-language studies of women's contemporary art in China.

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Bowdoin Archaeology Student Digging The Maine Coast

Just a hop and a short boat ride away from the Bowdoin campus is Haskell Island, where Matt Gannon '11 is knee deep excavating a shell midden--ancient Native American refuse sites--where 2,000 years of culture is near at hand.

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