News

Bowdoin is a Top Producer of Fulbright Fellows for Ninth Straight Year

Seventeen Bowdoin students were offered Fulbright fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year, placing Bowdoin among the top five baccalaureate institutions.

These Polar Bears Mean Business

College Gets Behind Student-Managed Arctic Fund

The College launches a money-raising drive to formally support a student-managed investment fund. The Arctic Fund, launched by three first-years in 2023, aims to replicate the real-life experience of working in finance and provide economics students with the business smarts to secure top jobs in the world of money management.
Preparing for the Future

How AI Impacts Health Care and the Humanities

As part of the College’s Hastings Initiative, two outside experts share their insight into the fast-changing world of artificial intelligence. In separate events, they looked at the impact of AI on health care and how studying the humanities can help prepare you for a world dominated by AI.
"Extraordinary, Profound, and Sustained Commitment to the Common Good"

Anne Robinson Wadsworth ’81, P’09 to Receive 2026 Common Good Award

A champion for bringing about social change through the transformational power of the education of girls and the fight for global gender equality, Anne Robinson Wadsworth '81 has helped equip and educate young girls in Tanzania through the nonprofit she founded.
Faculty Promotions

Board of Trustees Awards Tenure to Seven Faculty Members

Bowdoin scholars from across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences have been rewarded for their academic achievements with promotion from assistant professor to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2026.
BHM February 2026

Black Love, Care, and Community Steer Bowdoin’s Black History Month

Throughout February, student organizers of Black History Month at Bowdoin arranged a full slate of events, focusing on the themes they believe are most important right now.
Olympic Hockey Connections

Bowdoin Community Members Feature in Winter Games

The College offers its congratulations to USA Men's Ice Hockey coach Mike Sullivan P’17, who led the team to its first Olympic gold since 1980 after a dramatic overtime win against Canada. But Sullivan is not the only member of the Bowdoin community to hit the headlines at the winter games.
Seizing the Moment

Students Research AI’s Promise and Peril

As we stand at the precipice of an unknown AI-powered world, student researchers are responding to the Hastings Initiative’s call to “critically examine, thoughtfully utilize, and ethically shape AI's trajectory.”
Bright Idea

Shibali Mishra ’26 Wins Big Prize in Hackathon

The computer science and math major won a cash award after submitting the best idea to the tech firm running the competition.
Creativity For All

McKeen Center Opens New Art Show by Artists of All Abilities

The McKeen Center for the Common Good hosted a recent opening of works by Spindleworks artists.
Harnessing AI for the Common Good

Professor Dan Stone Encourages Healthy Disagreement at Bowdoin

In a presentation aimed at Bowdoin faculty and staff, Stone introduced how he uses a new AI tool to facilitate dialogue across differences, particularly among students.
Major Milestone

I Do Declare! Sophomores Celebrate Their Field(s) of Choice

Each year on Declaration Day, when sophomores officially select their majors and minors, Bowdoin throws a well-deserved party for the second-year students, with ice cream, music, sticky notes, and posters that make good selfie backdrops.
Bowdoin in the News

Bowdoin’s Mary Lou Zeeman: How Math Can Predict Environmental Tipping Points

Professor Zeeman visits Hawai’i to deliver a public lecture and take part in a number of events to highlight the mathematics of resilience and discuss how the power of math can be harnessed to understand environmental tipping points.
Staying Afloat

The Complicated Barriers Preventing Immigrants from Learning to Swim

When Bowdoin senior Siara Soule learned that accidental drownings in the US disproportionately affect immigrant communities, she decided to do something about it.
Trustee Journalist

From Bowdoin to Byline: NYT's Katie Benner ’99 on Reporting, Resilience, and Her New Book

A crowd of students, staff, and faculty recently gathered in Macmillan House for a chat with journalist and Bowdoin trustee Katie Benner ’99. She shared stories from her time at Bowdoin and life after graduation, and introduced her new book, Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises.