Academics
Faculty Research, Performance and Exhibitions

Bowdoin Teacher Scholars Ace Their Defenses

Six student teachers were put to the test recently when they presented their teaching portfolios in the Bowdoin Teacher Scholars Program’s annual defense. Each completed a full-time, 14-week teaching practicum in a public high school or middle school earlier this spring.

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Carlon Named Director of Bowdoin Marine Lab

David Carlon of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa has been named Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the Bowdoin College Marine Laboratory, a newly endowed position at the college.

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Video: Physicist Stephen Naculich on Finding the ‘God Particle’

Professor of Physics Stephen Naculich was invited to give the May 3 "Uncommon Hour," a student-run lecture series that's modeled after TED Talks.

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Simulating the Senate: Classics Course Immerses Students in Roman History and Government

This spring, Prof. Michael Nerdahl's students in Classics 214 have been immersed in a simulation of the Roman senate, spanning the years 190-187 B.C.

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Academic Trip to Colombia Makes Links Between Fiction and Reality

The students in Nadia Celis’ Spanish class who traveled to Colombia over spring break came back with more than just a deeper academic understanding of Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.

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Prof. Alicia Eggert Featured on TED Blog

Alicia Eggert, assistant professor of art at Bowdoin, has just been featured in an interview on the TED Blog.

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The Hunger Games, Revisited

Kristen Ghodsee (John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies) and Aviva Briefel (Associate Professor of English and Film Studies) sit down to talk about the movie The Hunger Games.

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'Take Me to the River': Bowdoin's Kolster Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Michael Kolster, Associate Professor of Art at Bowdoin, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship to support his glass plate photographic project “Take Me to the River.”

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Video: Prof. Jean Yarbrough on Theodore Roosevelt

Professors of Government Jean Yarbrough and Paul Franco speak about Yarbrough's new book, "Theordore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition."

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Student Lecture: A Critique of Employment-Based Health Insurance April 10

Ryan Larochelle ’13 will present his research on American health care economics—focusing on the link between health insurance and employment—tomorrow at 8:30 PM in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center.

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Education Professor Brings Mindfulness into the Classroom

One of Kathryn Byrnes’ spring courses, Mindfulness in Education, tends to provoke curiosity in those who come across it in the Bowdoin catalog or who hear about it from students in the class.

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Four Faculty Members Earn Promotions to Full Professor

Four members of the Bowdoin faculty have earned the rank of full professor, a distinction bestowed upon those who have held the rank of associate professor for at least six years while demonstrating continued excellence in their teaching and scholarly endeavors.

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Perkinson Named Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Art History

President Barry Mills and Dean for Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd have announced that Stephen Perkinson has been named Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Art History.

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The Birders of Bowdoin

A handful of birders have left the nest that is the College and soared to great heights in the field of ornithology.

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Student Art Show Draws on Science for Inspiration

To help her Bowdoin students hone their observations of their surroundings, instructor Barbara Putnam has brought her class to the Coastal Studies Center in Harpswell, to the bird collection in Druckenmiller Hall, and to the Arctic Museum on campus. The students draw directly on wood blocks or linoleum sheets, which they then carve into prints.

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