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- Mike Kolster Awarded 2008 Karofsky Prize
- Marine and Fisheries Ecologist Is New Kent Island Director
- Five Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2008
- Students, Parents Express Relief Over New No-Loan Policy
- Campus Welcomes Back Museum With Year of Events, Courses
- Six Professors Named to Chaired Professorships
- Trustees Honor Retiring Faculty Members Corish, Mayo
- Seven Professors To Earn Tenure in 2007
- Dickinson, Fitzgerald, VanderWolk Named to Chaired Professorships
- Trustees Honor 2006 Retiring Faculty Levine, Stakeman, Tucker
- Herrlinger, Vasudevan Named to Tenure Positions in 2006
- Record Number of Bowdoin Students Get Fulbrights
- Nine Professors Named to Tenure Positions in 2006
- Faculty Members Develop Program of Teaching Support
- Four Professors Named to Tenure Positions in 2005
- Trustees Honor Retiring Faculty Members Johnson, Martin
- Bowdoin Receives $3.5 Million Gift for Student Scholarships
- Bowdoin Faculty Members Honored for Scholarly, Artistic Achievements
- Teaching Oral Communication: It's All in the Presentation
- First-Year Seminars Inspire Faculty Collaboration
- Bowdoin Announces Bold New Curriculum for Liberal Education
Africana Studies
- Scholars Question Boundaries Between Indigenous, Scientific Knowledge
- Five Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2008
- Fishing Lake Mweru: A Surprising Tale of Adaptation and Survival
- A Pipeline Runs Through It: Central Africa's Big Dig
- Bowdoin's Literary Legacies Pave the Way
- Romance Novels Explore Racial Boundaries
- Mellon Mays Fellows Celebrate Diverse Array of Projects
- Stakeman Awarded 2007 New England Emerging Filmmaker Award
- Film by Prof. Stakeman Selected for Woods Hole Film Festival
- Bowdoin Honored with NAACP Excellence in Diversity Leadership Award
- A Place of Prominence for Bowdoin Alum
- Trustees Honor 2006 Retiring Faculty Levine, Stakeman, Tucker
- Montgomery to Richmond: Walton Takes BBC Down a 'Southern Road'
Anthropology
- A Pipeline Runs Through It: Central Africa's Big Dig
- Mellon Mays Fellows Celebrate Diverse Array of Projects
- Convocation 2007 Address: Professor Scott MacEachern
- Learning What Lobstermen (and Lobsters) Know about Climate Change
- Bowdoin Students Awarded Opportunities to Travel, Help Others, Enrich Themselves
- Rebecca Genauer '08 Awarded Beinecke Scholarship
- Polar Bear Plight Plays on Public Radio
- Eleanor Simon '06 Explores Impact of Retraining after Mill Closure
- Emily Sheffield '06 Explores Displacement in 'A Place Like Home'
- Service Learning Projects in the Spotlight
- Campus Compact Honors Joe Bandy for Service Learning
- Arctic Museum Introduces iPod Audio Tour
- Northwest Greenland Exhibit at Arctic Museum
- Archaeologist, Students Uncover Surprising Pieces of the Past
- Henshaw Continues Inuit Place Name Research
- Chinese Population Study Confirms "Millions of Girls Are Missing"
- Women's Experiences in a Chinese Economic Zone
Archaeology
- A Pipeline Runs Through It: Central Africa's Big Dig
- Campus Welcomes Back Museum With Year of Events, Courses
- The New York Times Features Bowdoin's Assyrian Reliefs, Ancient Acts of Vandalism
- Search for Lost Arctic Film Footage Yields Orphaned Gem
- How Many People Does It Take to Move an Assyrian Relief?
- Carrie Atkins '06 Traces Seafaring Goddesses
- Archaeologist Traces Ancient Trade Through the Mediterranean
- Archaeologist, Students Uncover Surprising Pieces of the Past
- Kome to Ebome: Oil Pipeline Archaeology in Central Africa, 1999-2003
- LeMoine Earns NSF Grant for Archaeological Survey in Greenland
Architectural Studies
- Students to Transform Quad into Whimsical Procession Ground
- Royal Honor for John Studzinski '78, Architectural Accolades for Namesake
- Pearlman Explores Battling Ideologies of Harvard Bauhaus
- Cotton Estes and Nikolai von Keller Awarded Watson Fellowships
- Service Learning Projects in the Spotlight
- Architect Carol Wilson Finds New Sense of Place at CSC
Arctic Museum
- Centennial of Peary's North Pole Expedition Celebrated at Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
- Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center to Unveil Northward Over the Great Ice
- Campus Welcomes Back Museum With Year of Events, Courses
- Search for Lost Arctic Film Footage Yields Orphaned Gem
- Anniversary of Peary's North Pole Adventure
- Polar Bear Plight Plays on Public Radio
- The Softer Side of Robert E. Peary
- Arctic Museum Issues Polar Bear Charm
- Arctic Museum Introduces iPod Audio Tour
- Northwest Greenland Exhibit at Arctic Museum
- Treasures Return to the Attic as Popular Arctic Exhibit Prepares to Close
- Gibbons Interns Tackle Interdisciplinary Projects With the Help of Technology
- Susan Kaplan Discusses Robert Peary on NPR
- Henshaw Continues Inuit Place Name Research
- Bowdoin Arctic Survey Reveals Early Settlements
Art History
- Five Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2008
- Beauty and Duty: Museum Celebrates Marriage, Italian Style
- Students to Transform Quad into Whimsical Procession Ground
- "A Gift of Flowers" a Special (Collections) Arrangement
- Talking Bodies: Sociologist Studies Art's Role in Health Movements
- Students as Curators: Art and Life Mix it Up
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial 25 Years Later: A Change in Public Art
- Campus Welcomes Back Museum With Year of Events, Courses
- The New York Times Features Bowdoin's Assyrian Reliefs, Ancient Acts of Vandalism
- Examining 18th Century Views of Non-Western Ethnicity
- The New York Times Features Bowdoin College Museum of Art
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art to Re-Open October 14, 2007
- How Many People Does It Take to Move an Assyrian Relief?
- Steve Perkinson to Lecture at Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Becker Book Celebrates Two Centuries of Maine Printmaking
- Perkinson Shines Light on 15th-century Illuminated Manuscripts
- Spring Exhibitions Showcase Works by Bowdoin Art Faculty
- Mapping the Emergence of the Modern Art Gallery
- Gibbons Interns Tackle Interdisciplinary Projects With the Help of Technology
- Wethli Creates Public Spaces With Private Meaning
- Bowdoin Artists Featured in Portland Biennial
- The British Problem Picture
Asian Studies
- Anna Remillard '08 Awarded DACOR Bacon House Fellowship
- Campus Welcomes Back Museum With Year of Events, Courses
- Bowdoin Students Awarded Opportunities to Travel, Help Others, Enrich Themselves
- Holt Named Chicago Divinity Alumnus of the Year
- Broader Universe Awaits Libraries at Colby, Bates and Bowdoin
- Bringing Underground Chinese Cinema to New Audiences
- Conference on China Brings International Scholars to Campus
- Bowdoin Lecture Series Looks at China in the Era of Globalization
- Henry Laurence on NPR January 23
- Professor Gives High Definition to Digital Debate
- Gibbons Interns Tackle Interdisciplinary Projects With the Help of Technology
- Tracing Visnu Through Sri Lankan Politics and Culture
- Scholar, Web Designer Create Digital Japanese Scroll
- Professor and Students Alike Changed by Summer Study in China
- Chinese Population Study Confirms "Millions of Girls Are Missing"
- Samurai - Not Exactly What We Thought They Were
- NHK and the Comfort Women: War Guilt and Media Self-Censorship in Japan and Elsewhere
Baldwin Center
Biochemistry
- Five Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2008
- Bowdoin to Benefit from Federal Grant to Speed Scientific Communication
- Kohorn Finding New Pathways in Plant Biology
- Zeeman On the Cutting Edge of Biomathematical Research
- Weighty Research: Mass Spectrometry Gives Students Advanced Lab Experience
- Biologist Firmly Planted in High-Level Research at Bowdoin
- Herrlinger, Vasudevan Named to Tenure Positions in 2006
- Students Share Research ... and Pizza
- Opening New Worlds of Science for High Schoolers
- Undergraduate Research Flourishes
- Bowdoin Gets Beckman Grant for Undergraduate Research
- Merck Grant Expands Collaborative Faculty-Student Science Research
Biology
- Climate Change Expert to Head Environmental Studies Program
- Marine and Fisheries Ecologist Is New Kent Island Director
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards Bowdoin $1.1 Million Biosciences Grant
- Five Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2008
- Kent Island Research into Bird Contamination Featured on MPBN
- "A Gift of Flowers" a Special (Collections) Arrangement
- Ross Jacobs '10 and Megan McCullough '10 Selected as 2007 ISI Honors Fellows
- Six Professors Named to Chaired Professorships
- Kohorn Finding New Pathways in Plant Biology
- Researchers Develop 'Bar Code' for Sea Urchins
- Professors Raise Awareness, Aspirations of Women in Science
- Students Make Wild Friends in Ecology Class
- Economist Charts New Waters With Spatial-Fishing Model
- Zeeman On the Cutting Edge of Biomathematical Research
- Master or Slave? Zeeman Rethinks Pituitary Function
- Understanding Environmental History One Diatom at a Time
- Dickinson, Fitzgerald, VanderWolk Named to Chaired Professorships
- Bowdoin Science Experience Creates Great Chemistry
- Weighty Research: Mass Spectrometry Gives Students Advanced Lab Experience
- Marine Researcher Keeps Tabs on the Smallest of Small
- Merrymeeting Bay: Writer and Photographer Celebrate Maine's Treasured Delta
- Invading Crabs a Focus of Maine Coastal Classroom
- A Clearer Picture of Differences Between Men and Women
- Haley Bridger '07 Selected for Prestigious Jackson Laboratory Summer Student Program
- Biologist Firmly Planted in High-Level Research at Bowdoin
- Service Learning Projects in the Spotlight
- Carrie Atkins '06 Traces Seafaring Goddesses
- As the Nest Turns: Racy Research from Bowdoin's Birdman
- Students, Hunters Combine Knowledge of Merrymeeting Ducks
- NSF Grant Supports Bird Research at Bowdoin Scientific Station
- Tracking Snapping Turtles Through the Seasons and Through the Mud
- Gibbons Interns Tackle Interdisciplinary Projects With the Help of Technology
- Neuroscience Student Gets a Whiff of High-Level Research
- Fieldwork May Aid State Shad Restoration
- Students Share Research ... and Pizza
- Institute Brings Coastal Science to Maine Educators
- Opening New Worlds of Science for High Schoolers
- High Tide Mark: Matching grant will expand Bowdoin's marine science research
- Undergraduate Research Flourishes
- Skate Research Opens Window on Human Evolution
- Lichter's Environmental Science Article Cited as Widely Influential
- Horch Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
- Bowdoin Gets Beckman Grant for Undergraduate Research
- Merck Grant Expands Collaborative Faculty-Student Science Research
- Matching Grant Will Expand Bowdoin's Marine Science Research
- Bowdoin Researchers Seek Methods to Spur Sea Urchin Growth
- Hadley Horch: DNA Sharpshooter
- $800K Grant Helps Bowdoin Expand Outreach, Student Research in the Biosciences
- The Coast of Maine; Beautiful Coves, Tasty Steamers, and the Attack of the Crab Monster
Chemistry
- Five Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2008
- Trustees Honor Retiring Faculty Members Corish, Mayo
- Bowdoin Science Experience Creates Great Chemistry
- Weighty Research: Mass Spectrometry Gives Students Advanced Lab Experience
- Clingier? Silkier? It's All in the Catalyst, Says Chemist
- Herrlinger, Vasudevan Named to Tenure Positions in 2006
- Service Learning Projects in the Spotlight
- Opening New Worlds of Science for High Schoolers
- Undergraduate Research Flourishes
- Lichter's Environmental Science Article Cited as Widely Influential
- Chemistry Professor Studies Antibiotics in Soil
- Bowdoin Chemistry Professor Gets the Lobster Blues
- Merck Grant Expands Collaborative Faculty-Student Science Research
- Chemistry Professor to Serve at NSF
Classics
- Campus Welcomes Back Museum With Year of Events, Courses
- Bowdoin Students Awarded Opportunities to Travel, Help Others, Enrich Themselves
- Classicists Convene at Bowdoin
- Keasbey Winner Mary Hartley Platt '07 Oxford-Bound
- How Many People Does It Take to Move an Assyrian Relief?
- Carrie Atkins '06 Traces Seafaring Goddesses
- Archaeologist Traces Ancient Trade Through the Mediterranean
- Four Professors Named to Tenure Positions in 2005
- Masculinity and Illness in Ancient Greece
- The Religious Pantheon in Ancient Greece
Computer Science
- New GIS Lab: Computer Science for the Common Good
- Computer Science Students Building Humanitarian Software
- Apple's Leopard Spotted at Bowdoin
- Bowdoin to Benefit from Federal Grant to Speed Scientific Communication
- Bibliophiles Unite! (It's a Library Thing)
- Museum, iTunes U in Portland Press Herald
- Researcher Defines New Terrain in Computing Power
- Six Professors Named to Chaired Professorships
- Bowdoin Honored with HP Technology for Teaching Grant
- Bowdoin’s Northern Bites Front Page News on iTunes U
- Bowdoin Students Win World Robotics Competition
- Johannes Strom '09 Awarded Goldwater Scholarship
- Northern Bites Chomps the Competition in Germany
- Zeeman On the Cutting Edge of Biomathematical Research
- Bowdoin Science Experience Creates Great Chemistry
- Artificial Intelligence Researcher Revels in the Impossible
- Trustees Honor 2006 Retiring Faculty Levine, Stakeman, Tucker
- Service Learning Projects in the Spotlight
- Eric Chown: The Man Behind Bowdoin's Robots
- Computer Science Professor Invited to Teach in New Zealand
- Allen Tucker Chairs Committee Recommending National K-12 Computer Science Curriculum
CPC
CSC
- Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center to Unveil Northward Over the Great Ice
- Coastal Influences: A Tale of Two Artists
- Learning What Lobstermen (and Lobsters) Know about Climate Change
- Bowdoin Buoy Used to Get to the Bottom of Red Tide
- Researchers Develop 'Bar Code' for Sea Urchins
- Professors Raise Awareness, Aspirations of Women in Science
- Economist Charts New Waters With Spatial-Fishing Model
- Understanding Environmental History One Diatom at a Time
- Bowdoin Science Experience Creates Great Chemistry
- Marine Researcher Keeps Tabs on the Smallest of Small
- Invading Crabs a Focus of Maine Coastal Classroom
- Visiting Artist Electrifies Bowdoin Actor Training
- Students, Hunters Combine Knowledge of Merrymeeting Ducks
- Architect Carol Wilson Finds New Sense of Place at CSC
- Tracking Snapping Turtles Through the Seasons and Through the Mud
- Fieldwork May Aid State Shad Restoration
- Students Share Research ... and Pizza
- Institute Brings Coastal Science to Maine Educators
- High Tide Mark: Matching grant will expand Bowdoin's marine science research
- Archaeologist, Students Uncover Surprising Pieces of the Past
- Matching Grant Will Expand Bowdoin's Marine Science Research
- Henshaw Continues Inuit Place Name Research
- Visiting the Caribbean ... of the Mind
- Coastal Studies Center Scholar Keeps a Line on Maine's Fishing Industry
Economics
- Student Housing Research Submitted to Congressional Delegation
- Maine Public Radio Features Prof. David Vail
- Bowdoin Economist Asks: Did Welfare Reform Work?
- Bowdoin Economist Discusses Pioneering Daycare Research
- Ross Jacobs '10 and Megan McCullough '10 Selected as 2007 ISI Honors Fellows
- Examining the State of Child Care in Maine, the U.S. and Abroad
- Six Professors Named to Chaired Professorships
- Bowdoin Students Awarded Opportunities to Travel, Help Others, Enrich Themselves
- Zorina Khan Wins Three-Year NSF Grant
- Economist Charts New Waters With Spatial-Fishing Model
- Spotlight on Bowdoin's Backyard
- It's Constitutional: Exploring the Economics of Invention
- Dickinson, Fitzgerald, VanderWolk Named to Chaired Professorships
- Leaders Find Economic Optimisim in Maine Trade Clusters
- Matt Thomson '06 Delves into Maine's Civil War Military
- David Vail is Advisor on Maine Public Broadcasting Series
- David Vail Discusses Ecotourism on MPR
- Employer-Sponsored Daycare Can Be Profitable, New Study Shows
- Bowdoin Economist Studies Single Women and Welfare Reform
- David Vail Named to Governor's Advisory Committee
- Geography, Trade, and Regional Disparities: The Case of the Missing Middle of Mexico
Education
- Examining the State of Child Care in Maine, the U.S. and Abroad
- Dorn Awarded 2007 Karofsky Prize
- Service Learning Projects in the Spotlight
- Kanbar Hall Wins 'Outstanding Building' Award
- Past Meets Present: Carving New Democracies Through Education
- Institute Brings Coastal Science to Maine Educators
- Trustees Honor Retiring Faculty Members Johnson, Martin
English
- 2008 Honors Day Address: Charles Dorn
- Creating Environmental Activism One Story at a Time
- CBS Sunday Morning Goes Smelt Fishing with Professors Burroughs, Coviello
- Students Celebrate Shakespeare From Classical to 'Kitch'
- Bowdoin's Literary Legacies Pave the Way
- Hawthorne Was Here; Reed is Home
- Romance Novels Explore Racial Boundaries
- Campus Welcomes Back Museum With Year of Events, Courses
- Mellon Mays Fellows Celebrate Diverse Array of Projects
- Writer and Activist Grace Paley H'03 Dies at 84
- Bowdoin Students Awarded Opportunities to Travel, Help Others, Enrich Themselves
- Baccalaureate 2007: Readings from Bowdoin's Past
- Cotton Estes and Nikolai von Keller Awarded Watson Fellowships
- Novelist Margot Livesey On Writing and Teaching at Bowdoin
- Longfellow Bicentennial Delivers Diverse Feast for the Ears
- Writer's Almanac Recites Longfellow
- Bowdoin Professors Celebrate Longfellow on TV and Podcasts
- Longfellow's 200th Birthday To Be Celebrated Locally and Nationwide
- iPod Loaded with Poetry is Music to Serviceman's Ears
- Merrymeeting Bay: Writer and Photographer Celebrate Maine's Treasured Delta
- Romantic Rewrite: Scholar Begins 'Anti-Biography' of Coleridge
- Aviva Briefel to Present Spring 2006 Karofsky Lecture
- Lindemann Has Pulled a Ruse: He Wrote a Book on Dr. Seuss
- Noted Novelist Margot Livesey to Teach at Bowdoin
- Montgomery to Richmond: Walton Takes BBC Down a 'Southern Road'
- 'Ghoulish' Scholars Create Weird Body of Expertise
- Alan Lightman: On Science, Writing, and Passion
- William Watterson Judges 2005 Longfellow Prize Competition
- Whitman War Memoir Poignantly Relevant Today, Says Professor
- Pulitzer-Winning Author, Urban-Planning Expert Join Bowdoin College Faculty
- Using New Media to Understand 19th-Century Literature
- The Gutenberg Galaxy Revisited: Print, Drama, and the English Reformation
English Theater
- Students Celebrate Shakespeare From Classical to 'Kitch'
- Professors a Hit in the Classroom and on the Dance Floor
- Student Emerges From Wings to 'Wing It' As An Actor
Environmental Studies
- Climate Change Expert to Head Environmental Studies Program
- Marine and Fisheries Ecologist Is New Kent Island Director
- Creating Environmental Activism One Story at a Time
- Student's Sustainable Surf Research Creates Industry Waves
- Scholars Question Boundaries Between Indigenous, Scientific Knowledge
- Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center to Unveil Northward Over the Great Ice
- Five Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2008
- Bowdoin to Purchase Renewable Energy Certificates from UPC Wind
- Prof. David Vail to be Environmental Forum Panelist
- Students Take Environmental Stand—On the Stand
- Prof. Matthew Klingle Featured on Public Radio
- Bowdoin Dining's Head Chefs Spotlighted for Green Cuisine
- Sustainability Efforts Earn Honorable Mention from Sierra Magazine
- Auden Schendler '92 Champions Corporate Environmentalism
- Conscious Consumerism: Think Before You Buy
- Climate Commitment Advisory Committee Announced
- Bowdoin Students Serve the Environment, Community
- Love of Nature Inspires Environmental Field Work
- Bowdoin College Commits to Climate Neutral Campus
- Baccalaureate Address: Larissa Curlik ‘07
- Pearlman Explores Battling Ideologies of Harvard Bauhaus
- 2007 Honors Day Address: Matthew Klingle
- Bowdoin Alumna Attends U.N. Summit on Sustainability
- Step it Up to Save the Polar Bears April 14
- Students Make Wild Friends in Ecology Class
- Polar Bear Plight Plays on Public Radio
- Economist Charts New Waters With Spatial-Fishing Model
- Community Projects in the Spotlight at Service Learning Symposium
- Glacial Brunswick: Geologist Finds New Ice Sheet Evidence
- Understanding Environmental History One Diatom at a Time
- Marine Researcher Keeps Tabs on the Smallest of Small
- Merrymeeting Bay: Writer and Photographer Celebrate Maine's Treasured Delta
- Invading Crabs a Focus of Maine Coastal Classroom
- Herrlinger, Vasudevan Named to Tenure Positions in 2006
- Service Learning Projects in the Spotlight
- Klingle Awarded the 2006 Karofsky Prize
- As the Nest Turns: Racy Research from Bowdoin's Birdman
- Bowdoin Signs On for Governor's Carbon Challenge
- Matt Klingle Appears on 'Soundprint' Thursday
- Physics Professor Gets Face Time With Senator ... in Antarctica
- Students, Hunters Combine Knowledge of Merrymeeting Ducks
- Architect Carol Wilson Finds New Sense of Place at CSC
- Coast to Capitol: ES Interns Delve into Local Environmental Projects
- Kristina Ford Discusses New Orleans on NPR
- Tracking Snapping Turtles Through the Seasons and Through the Mud
- Gibbons Interns Tackle Interdisciplinary Projects With the Help of Technology
- Professor Develops Climate-Monitoring Equipment in Harvard Forest
- Fieldwork May Aid State Shad Restoration
- Students Share Research ... and Pizza
- Institute Brings Coastal Science to Maine Educators
- Undergraduate Research Flourishes
- David Vail Discusses Ecotourism on MPR
- Lichter's Environmental Science Article Cited as Widely Influential
- Chemistry Professor Studies Antibiotics in Soil
- Bowdoin Gets Beckman Grant for Undergraduate Research
- Merck Grant Expands Collaborative Faculty-Student Science Research
- Coastal Studies Center Scholar Keeps a Line on Maine's Fishing Industry
- Pulitzer-Winning Author, Urban-Planning Expert Join Bowdoin College Faculty
- 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to 2002 Bowdoin Symposium Speaker
- Bowdoin Environmental Historian Examines American Experience of City and Nature
- The Coast of Maine; Beautiful Coves, Tasty Steamers, and the Attack of the Crab Monster
- Chiang Honored for Dissertation
Eurasian
Film Studies
- Steven Holleran '08 Awarded Watson Fellowship
- WCSH Interview with McCullough, Antholis '84 Available Online
- MFA to Screen Film About Abelardo Morell '71
- Stakeman Awarded 2007 New England Emerging Filmmaker Award
- Film by Prof. Stakeman Selected for Woods Hole Film Festival
- Bowdoin Students Awarded Opportunities to Travel, Help Others, Enrich Themselves
- Search for Lost Arctic Film Footage Yields Orphaned Gem
- Rebecca Genauer '08 Awarded Beinecke Scholarship
- German Film Studies Draw Students Across Disciplines
- Bringing Underground Chinese Cinema to New Audiences
- Film Scholar Gives Gloria Swanson Her Close-Up
- Russian Scholar Gets Fulbright for Kazakh Film Studies
- Aviva Briefel to Present Spring 2006 Karofsky Lecture
- 'Ghoulish' Scholars Create Weird Body of Expertise
- Frederick Wiseman Discusses Documentary Filmmaking
French
- VanderWolk Discusses Hugo's Impact on History
- Dickinson, Fitzgerald, VanderWolk Named to Chaired Professorships
- Service Learning Projects in the Spotlight
- Friedland Wins ACLS Fellowship
- Katherine Dauge-Roth Receives 2005 Karofsky Award
- Demon Marks Lay Bare the Twisted History of Tattooing
Gay and Lesbian Studies
Geology
- Bowdoin Buoy Used to Get to the Bottom of Red Tide
- Bowdoin, Partners Teach Watershed Stewardship
- Professors Raise Awareness, Aspirations of Women in Science
- Community Projects in the Spotlight at Service Learning Symposium
- Glacial Brunswick: Geologist Finds New Ice Sheet Evidence
- Bowdoin Science Experience Creates Great Chemistry
- Service Learning Projects in the Spotlight
- Shedding Light on Melting Arctic Ice
- Faculty Members Develop Program of Teaching Support
- Gibbons Interns Tackle Interdisciplinary Projects With the Help of Technology
- Tapping Into the Secrets of Maine's Coast
- Bowdoin Hosts International Geological Conference
- Scientists Using Electron Backscatter Diffraction to Meet at Bowdoin for Kibbe Symposium
- Investigating the World with a Scanning Electron Microscope
German
- Prof. Steve Cerf to Lecture at New York's Lincoln Center
- Examining 18th Century Views of Non-Western Ethnicity
- Bowdoin Students Awarded Opportunities to Travel, Help Others, Enrich Themselves
- Han Guo '09 Wins DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship
- German Film Studies Draw Students Across Disciplines
- Record Number of Bowdoin Students Get Fulbrights
Government
- Government Professors Hit Washington Big Time
- Asst. U.S. Sec. of State Christopher Hill '74 Provides Insight into North Korea, Diplomacy
- Bowdoin College Library Kicks Off George J. Mitchell Oral History Project
- Meredith Segal '08 Wall Street Journal's "Party Animal"
- Prof. Morgan Invited to Speak in Supreme Court Lecture Series
- A Decade of Peace: A Conversation with George Mitchell '54 Ten Years After Good Friday
- Professors Franz, Potholm to Talk Politics on WCSH's 207
- Being There: Students Explore the Middle East Up Close
- Chelsea Clinton Speaks at Bowdoin
- Prof. Michael Franz Talks Super Delegates on WCSH
- Prof. Michael Franz Appears on WCSH, MPBN
- Tip of the Hat from U.S. Asst. Sec. of State Christopher Hill '74
- Sen. George Mitchell '54 Appears on Maine Watch
- Laura Henry Earns Fulbright for Research in Russia
- Hawthorne Was Here; Reed is Home
- College Democrats of America Elect Bowdoin Student, Recent Grad to Leadership Posts
- APSA Names Franz Dissertation Best in Field
- The New York Times Sings Praises of Christopher Hill '74
- Former Governor Brings Life Lessons into Leadership Class
- Bowdoin Alumnus to New Beacon Hill Post
- A Place of Prominence for Bowdoin Alum
- Bowdoin to Celebrate Maine's Franco American Heritage Nov. 13-15
- Avery Galleher ’06 Analyzes Chilean Private Pension System
- Yarbrough Wins Prestigious NEH Fellowship
- Service Learning Projects in the Spotlight
- Conference on China Brings International Scholars to Campus
- Nick Adams '06 Studies Post-9/11 Police Powers in Three Countries
- Professor Gives High Definition to Digital Debate
- Bowdoin Professor To Give Keynote at Red Mass
- Shelley Deane Interviewed on Chicago Public Radio
- Bowdoin Students Get Polls Right, Even If Experts Don't
- 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to 2002 Bowdoin Symposium Speaker
- Book Challenges Concepts of Liberalism and Conservatism
- The Presidency and Women
- NHK and the Comfort Women: War Guilt and Media Self-Censorship in Japan and Elsewhere
History
- Scholars Question Boundaries Between Indigenous, Scientific Knowledge
- WCSH Interview with McCullough, Antholis '84 Available Online
- Being There: Students Explore the Middle East Up Close
- Prof. Matthew Klingle Featured on Public Radio
- Fishing Lake Mweru: A Surprising Tale of Adaptation and Survival
- Stakeman Awarded 2007 New England Emerging Filmmaker Award
- Film by Prof. Stakeman Selected for Woods Hole Film Festival
- 2007 Honors Day Address: Matthew Klingle
- A Place of Prominence for Bowdoin Alum
- Historian Illuminates Longfellow's Bowdoin Days
- Broader Universe Awaits Libraries at Colby, Bates and Bowdoin
- It's Constitutional: Exploring the Economics of Invention
- Matt Thomson '06 Delves into Maine's Civil War Military
- Trustees Honor 2006 Retiring Faculty Levine, Stakeman, Tucker
- Herrlinger, Vasudevan Named to Tenure Positions in 2006
- Service Learning Projects in the Spotlight
- Klingle Awarded the 2006 Karofsky Prize
- Wells Wins Fellowships from Guggenheim, ACLS
- Curious About the World: Travel Grants Honor Paul Nyhus
- Student's Original Research Shines Light on 'the Black Swan'
- Matt Klingle Appears on 'Soundprint' Thursday
- Students, Hunters Combine Knowledge of Merrymeeting Ducks
- Past Meets Present: Carving New Democracies Through Education
- Gibbons Interns Tackle Interdisciplinary Projects With the Help of Technology
- Friedland Wins ACLS Fellowship
- Scholar, Web Designer Create Digital Japanese Scroll
- Travel Grants Established Honoring Paul Nyhus
- Mapping New Visions of History With GIS
- Teaching Oral Communication: It's All in the Presentation
- Lying Makes the World Go Around for Medieval Scholar
- Chiang Honored for Dissertation
Interdisciplinary Studies
- Climate Change Expert to Head Environmental Studies Program
- Creating Environmental Activism One Story at a Time
- Coastal Influences: A Tale of Two Artists
- Former Governor Brings Life Lessons into Leadership Class
- Zeeman On the Cutting Edge of Biomathematical Research
- Master or Slave? Zeeman Rethinks Pituitary Function
- Service Learning Projects in the Spotlight
- Students, Hunters Combine Knowledge of Merrymeeting Ducks
- Neuroscience Student Gets a Whiff of High-Level Research
- Fieldwork May Aid State Shad Restoration
- Students Share Research ... and Pizza
- Institute Brings Coastal Science to Maine Educators
- Mapping New Visions of History With GIS
- Merck Grant Expands Collaborative Faculty-Student Science Research
- Visiting the Caribbean ... of the Mind
ISLE Program
- Prof. John Holt in Newsweek
- Holt Named Chicago Divinity Alumnus of the Year
- Tracing Visnu Through Sri Lankan Politics and Culture
Italian
Kent Island
- Marine and Fisheries Ecologist Is New Kent Island Director
- Kent Island Research into Bird Contamination Featured on MPBN
- Six Professors Named to Chaired Professorships
- Students Make Wild Friends in Ecology Class
- National Wildlife Magazine (February/March 2007)
- As the Nest Turns: Racy Research from Bowdoin's Birdman
- NSF Grant Supports Bird Research at Bowdoin Scientific Station
Latin America
- Six Professors Named to Chaired Professorships
- Local High Schoolers Immersed in Spanish at Bowdoin
- Yepes Spanish Web Site Wins Honors, Worldwide Audience
- Avery Galleher ’06 Analyzes Chilean Private Pension System
- Trustees Honor 2006 Retiring Faculty Levine, Stakeman, Tucker
- Maine Kids Shadow Bowdoin Students, Check Out College Life
- Faculty Members Develop Program of Teaching Support
- Visiting the Caribbean ... of the Mind
Marine Studies
- Marine and Fisheries Ecologist Is New Kent Island Director
- Researchers Develop 'Bar Code' for Sea Urchins
- Understanding Environmental History One Diatom at a Time
- Marine Researcher Keeps Tabs on the Smallest of Small
- Invading Crabs a Focus of Maine Coastal Classroom
- Fieldwork May Aid State Shad Restoration
- Institute Brings Coastal Science to Maine Educators
- Skate Research Opens Window on Human Evolution
- Matching Grant Will Expand Bowdoin's Marine Science Research
Math
- Researcher Defines New Terrain in Computing Power
- Six Professors Named to Chaired Professorships
- Bowdoin Students Awarded Opportunities to Travel, Help Others, Enrich Themselves
- Bowdoin, UMaine Join Forces for Engineering Program
- Zeeman On the Cutting Edge of Biomathematical Research
- Master or Slave? Zeeman Rethinks Pituitary Function
- Bowdoin Science Experience Creates Great Chemistry
- Trustees Honor 2006 Retiring Faculty Levine, Stakeman, Tucker
- Euclid to Einstein: Barker Builds Beautiful Geometry
- Trustees Honor Retiring Faculty Members Johnson, Martin
- Questioning Euclid and Understanding Escher
Music
- Prof. Schwartz Appears on WCSH
- Prof. Steve Cerf to Lecture at New York's Lincoln Center
- Shende Sounds Hopeful Note With Longfellow Poems
- Senior Composition Students Pull Out All the Stops
- Royal Honor for John Studzinski '78, Architectural Accolades for Namesake
- Campus Welcomes Back Museum With Year of Events, Courses
- Professors a Hit in the Classroom and on the Dance Floor
- Antolini Electrifies Stravinsky's Multimedia Masterpiece
- New Recital Hall to Open in May
- Through Music, a Discovery of Family and Self
- Library of Congress Honors Bowdoin Composer's Legacy
- American Musicological Society Moves to Bowdoin
- Making a Big Production About Mozart's Operas
- It's Miles from Cool Jazz to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Bowdoin Receives Grant from Hannaford Charitable Foundation Toward Recital Hall Project
- Gibbons Interns Tackle Interdisciplinary Projects With the Help of Technology
- Diving into Music: Curtis Pool to be renovated into Concert Hall
- Move Over Miami, Tokyo's Got Salsa
- Razzle: A Commission for the National Symphony Orchestra
- Voyager: Anatomy of a Composition
Neurosci
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards Bowdoin $1.1 Million Biosciences Grant
- Prof. Rick Thompson on Discovery Channel's "Most Evil"
- Prof. Ramus Takes a Spin on Wheel of Fortune
- Dickinson, Fitzgerald, VanderWolk Named to Chaired Professorships
- Bowdoin Science Experience Creates Great Chemistry
- Weighty Research: Mass Spectrometry Gives Students Advanced Lab Experience
- A Clearer Picture of Differences Between Men and Women
- Neuroscience Student Gets a Whiff of High-Level Research
- Students Share Research ... and Pizza
- Undergraduate Research Flourishes
- Four Professors Named to Tenure Positions in 2005
- Horch Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
- Bowdoin Gets Beckman Grant for Undergraduate Research
- Merck Grant Expands Collaborative Faculty-Student Science Research
- Hadley Horch: DNA Sharpshooter
- The Good the Bad and the Sexy: How Brain Chemistry Affects Social Judgment
Philosophy
- Mellon Mays Fellows Celebrate Diverse Array of Projects
- Ross Jacobs '10 and Megan McCullough '10 Selected as 2007 ISI Honors Fellows
- Trustees Honor Retiring Faculty Members Corish, Mayo
- Pols's Poetry Published
- Convocation Address: Professor Scott R. Sehon
Physics
- From Outer Space to Bowdoin Labs: The Hunt for Dark Matter
- Bowdoin Students Awarded Opportunities to Travel, Help Others, Enrich Themselves
- Bowdoin, UMaine Join Forces for Engineering Program
- Mapping the Unseen Cosmos With Galactic X-Rays
- Physics Professor Gets Face Time With Senator ... in Antarctica
- Professor Develops Climate-Monitoring Equipment in Harvard Forest
- Battle's Science Article Cited as Widely Influential
- Alan Lightman: On Science, Writing, and Passion
- Four Professors Named to Tenure Positions in 2005
- Baumgarte Gets NSF Grant for Computational Physics
- Bowdoin Physicist Gets Grant for Research Collaboration in Japan
- It's a Matter of Gravity: Searching for Cosmic Waves
- Thomas Baumgarte Awarded 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship
Psychology
- Prof. Barbara Held Appears on ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson
- Prof. Barbara Held on CBC Radio
- Prof. Rick Thompson on Discovery Channel's "Most Evil"
- Prof. Ramus Takes a Spin on Wheel of Fortune
- NPR Features Prof. Barbara Held Essay
- Prof. Barbara Held Featured in Smithsonian Magazine
- Prof. Barbara Held Debunks Power of Positive Thinking on CBC
- New Held Book Examines Foundations of Psychology
- BBC Radio Features Prof. Barbara Held
- Prof. Held on Today Show
- Putnam Child Temperament Studies Find Global Audience
- Bowdoin Science Experience Creates Great Chemistry
- From Sad Slugs to Curious Cubs: A Child's View of Animal Psychology
- Kanbar Hall Wins 'Outstanding Building' Award
- Neuroscience Student Gets a Whiff of High-Level Research
- Right Brain, Left Brain: Where Does Language Live?
- Four Professors Named to Tenure Positions in 2005
- Bowdoin Featured in TIME Magazine
- Nature or Nurture? Bowdoin Study Examines Origins of Temperament
- The Good the Bad and the Sexy: How Brain Chemistry Affects Social Judgment
Qskills
Religion
- Five Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2008
- Prof. John Holt in Newsweek
- BBC Radio Features Prof. Barbara Held
- Holt Named Chicago Divinity Alumnus of the Year
- Genies, Sheiks, Tinkers: Scholar Brings Unpublished Iraqi Folktales to Light
- Tracing Visnu Through Sri Lankan Politics and Culture
Romance Languages
- Six Professors Named to Chaired Professorships
- Bowdoin Students Awarded Opportunities to Travel, Help Others, Enrich Themselves
- VanderWolk Discusses Hugo's Impact on History
- Bowdoin to Celebrate Maine's Franco American Heritage Nov. 13-15
- Local High Schoolers Immersed in Spanish at Bowdoin
- Dickinson, Fitzgerald, VanderWolk Named to Chaired Professorships
- Yepes Spanish Web Site Wins Honors, Worldwide Audience
- Propaganda Plays Reveal Contradictions of Spanish Civil War
- Katherine Dauge-Roth Receives 2005 Karofsky Award
- 2005 Honors Day Ceremony Recognizes Bowdoin's Best
- Honors Day Address: Arielle Saiber
- Demon Marks Lay Bare the Twisted History of Tattooing
- Saiber Named Radcliffe Institute Fellow
Russian
- Laura Henry Earns Fulbright for Research in Russia
- Kazakh Film Screening July 22
- Russian Scholar Gets Fulbright for Kazakh Film Studies
Sociology
- Prof. Barbara Held Appears on ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson
- Student Housing Research Submitted to Congressional Delegation
- Prof. Barbara Held on CBC Radio
- Talking Bodies: Sociologist Studies Art's Role in Health Movements
- NPR Features Prof. Barbara Held Essay
- Campus Welcomes Back Museum With Year of Events, Courses
- Mellon Mays Fellows Celebrate Diverse Array of Projects
- Prof. Barbara Held Featured in Smithsonian Magazine
- Prof. Barbara Held Debunks Power of Positive Thinking on CBC
- Learning What Lobstermen (and Lobsters) Know about Climate Change
- BBC Radio Features Prof. Barbara Held
- Prof. Held on Today Show
- Community Projects in the Spotlight at Service Learning Symposium
- Eleanor Simon '06 Explores Impact of Retraining after Mill Closure
- Emily Sheffield '06 Explores Displacement in 'A Place Like Home'
- Campus Compact Honors Joe Bandy for Service Learning
- Four Professors Named to Tenure Positions in 2005
- Henshaw Continues Inuit Place Name Research
- Chinese Population Study Confirms "Millions of Girls Are Missing"
Spanish
- Community Projects in the Spotlight at Service Learning Symposium
- Yepes Spanish Web Site Wins Honors, Worldwide Audience
- Avery Galleher ’06 Analyzes Chilean Private Pension System
- Propaganda Plays Reveal Contradictions of Spanish Civil War
Theater Dance
- Five Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2008
- Students to Transform Quad into Whimsical Procession Ground
- Theater Collaborative Brings Performance All Over Campus
- Campus Welcomes Back Museum With Year of Events, Courses
- Commencement 2007 Address: Anthony DiNicola ‘07
- Student Emerges From Wings to 'Wing It' As An Actor
- Robinson's 'Poor Theater' Offers Rich Staging of Samurai Film
- Emily Sheffield '06 Explores Displacement in 'A Place Like Home'
- Propaganda Plays Reveal Contradictions of Spanish Civil War
- Visiting Artist Electrifies Bowdoin Actor Training
- The Embellisher Comes Clean
- Puppetry Captures Imaginations from Broadway to Bowdoin
Visual Art
- Mike Kolster Awarded 2008 Karofsky Prize
- Beauty and Duty: Museum Celebrates Marriage, Italian Style
- John Bisbee on NPR's All Things Considered
- Students to Transform Quad into Whimsical Procession Ground
- "A Gift of Flowers" a Special (Collections) Arrangement
- Renovated Museum Rejuvenates Attendance, Inspires Films
- Talking Bodies: Sociologist Studies Art's Role in Health Movements
- Bright Common Spikes: The Sculpture of John Bisbee
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial 25 Years Later: A Change in Public Art
- Students Celebrate Shakespeare From Classical to 'Kitch'
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art: A Grand Reopening
- Bowdoin's Literary Legacies Pave the Way
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art: Where Tradition Meets Innovation
- Campus Welcomes Back Museum With Year of Events, Courses
- Coastal Influences: A Tale of Two Artists
- World Premiere Puts Abelardo Morell '71 in Focus
- The Collections of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art: Access Like Never Before
- Bowdoin Alumnus to be Portland Museum of Art Biennial Featured Artist
- The New York Times Features Bowdoin College Museum of Art
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art to Re-Open October 14, 2007
- Photographer's Digital Experiment Creates Archive of Daily Images
- Community Projects in the Spotlight at Service Learning Symposium
- Bisbee Wins Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
- Becker Book Celebrates Two Centuries of Maine Printmaking
- Cornell Prints, Paintings Enjoy New Season — Naturally
- Service Learning Projects in the Spotlight
- Spring Exhibitions Showcase Works by Bowdoin Art Faculty
- James Mullen's Paintings in New York City Exhibition
- Wethli Creates Public Spaces With Private Meaning
- Puppetry Captures Imaginations from Broadway to Bowdoin
- Sarah Malakoff Photographs Featured in NYC Exhibition
- Bowdoin Artists Featured in Portland Biennial
- 850 Artists Start Museum Wall "Transformation"
- Landscape Painter Reaches High Ground
- Painting a New World
Womens Studies
- Prof. Kristen Ghodsee's Research Career at a Liberal Arts College
- Five Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2008
- Bowdoin's Hat Trick on WCSH's 207
- Talking Bodies: Sociologist Studies Art's Role in Health Movements
- Prof. Jennifer Scanlon and Cyber Monday on WCSH
- Writer and Activist Grace Paley H'03 Dies at 84
- Bulgarian Scholarship Leads Ghodsee into Public Arenas
- Trustees Honor 2006 Retiring Faculty Levine, Stakeman, Tucker
- Ghodsee's Bulgarian Studies Draw Wide Support
- Ghodsee Wins Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
- Professor Flags Wal-Mart for Capitalizing on Patriotism