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Zohran Mamdani '14 sworn in as NYC mayor/Associated Press photo

Zohran Mamdani ’14 Sworn In as Mayor of New York City

Zohran Mamdani ’14 was sworn in as New York City’s mayor just after midnight on January 1, 2026, at once becoming the city’s first mayor of South Asian descent, its first Muslim mayor, its first Bowdoin alumnus, and the youngest leader of America’s largest city in more than a century.

Food Independence

Asher Savel ’26 Digs into Maine's Trailblazing Food Sovereignty Law

An environmental studies and government major is spending his senior year researching Maine’s groundbreaking food sovereignty law, which was passed in 2017 to protect people’s right to food and support small farmers.
Three Decades of Mentorship

Celebrating 30 Years of Bears and Cubs

After thirty years of providing mentorship through the Bears and Cubs program, Bowdoin College students and the McKeen Center for the Common Good were recognized with a Big Impact Award from Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of Bath/Brunswick.
“Stigma-free storytelling”

Turning Uncertainty into Audio: Kate Rusk-Kosa ’20 and Frank Kosa P’20 Create a New Podcast about Mental Illness

A Bowdoin grant brought a daughter and father together to work on a long-term project to help end the silence around mental illness.
Avian Ally

Inside Dylan Berr's Effort to Understand Bowdoin’s Birds

In a yearlong independent study, Dylan Berr ’26 is investigating how birds navigate and occupy campus spaces—insights that can help the College strengthen its bird-friendly practices.
Moving Art

2025 December Dance Concert

Students from the fall dance classes performed a diverse set for the annual end-of-semester dance concert, which drew big audiences for its three December shows in Pickard Theater.
Supporting Student Research

From Camp Bob to Cold War Archives: Will Tran ’26 Investigates Nuclear Symbolism and the State

The senior has received a grant from Bowdoin to travel to Vienna, Austria, over winter break to do research in the archives of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Scary Vibes!

How Horror Stories Use Haunted Spaces

English and cinema studies scholar Aviva Briefel explores the literary and cinematic trope of the haunted space and the importance these locations assume in the plotlines of horror books and movies.
Technology and the Environment

How to Use AI to Combat Climate Change

An expert in computational linguistics, Dan Loehr gave a talk at Bowdoin on how AI is and can be used to address climate change by mitigating emissions from carbon-intensive sectors, modeling climate change, and capturing carbon.
BCSS, from the Student Perspective

“What I love about the Bowdoin Coastal Studies Semester”

Hundreds of snail shells covered the lab tables, sorted into plastic bags and arranged by size and shape. Outside, the ocean swelled in the coastal Maine breeze.
Supporting Student Research

Kaya Patel ’26 Probes Ketamine’s Potential for Anxiety

Since her first semester at Bowdoin, the neuroscience major has pursued a research agenda exploring how early-life adversity shapes later-life outcomes and behaviors.
Technology and Society

Expanding Global Connections: Professor Gomezgil Yaspik Brings Bowdoin’s AI and Humanities Research to South America

Professor Gomezgil Yaspik, of the Digital and Computational Studies Program, recently represented the College across multiple academic venues in Peru and Brazil—continuing Bowdoin’s growing international presence in data science, artificial intelligence, and the humanities.
Comic Gold

Director Angus Wall ’88 Examines Arc of Eddie Murphy's Career

A new documentary by Angus Wall is being praised for its access to the comedian and use of archival footage to tell his life story.
Helping Communities

Alumni Homeless Advocates Celebrate NYC Children’s Museum Milestone

The Bowdoin graduates gathered in New York City recently to celebrate the 10^th anniversary of the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling. The alumni include supporters and board members of Broadway Housing Communities, which runs the museum.
Students for Science

Alexa Comess ’26 Investigates a Rosemary Compound to Protect Against Harmful Plasticizers

The chemistry major has received a fall research award from Bowdoin to dive deeper into her ongoing project looking at whether a substance found in rosemary could reduce cellular damage caused by plastic additives.