The New York Times (August 27, 2010)

Aijalon Mahli Gomes '01, who had been sentenced to eight years in a North Korean prison following his arrest in January for entering that country illegally, was freed after former President Jimmy Carter travelled to North Korea as a private citizen to secure his release. Read the article. The story received widespread national attention, appearing in, among other media outlets, The Boston Globe, Washington Post, San Francisco Examiner and on NPR.

The New York Times (August 25, 2010)

Entrepreneur Saudia Davis '00 is highlighted in "Some Business Skills to Go With the Passion," an article about the entrepreneurial ideal and the college courses and continuing education classes that endeavor to foster it. Davis started GreenHouse Eco-Cleaning, an organic residential and commercial cleaning service whose goal is to help its clientele achieve a healthier lifestyle. Read the article.

Star-Tribune [Minneapolis, Minn.] (August 24, 2010)

During the evening rush hour on August 1, 2007, the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The National Transportation Safety Board cited a design flaw as the likely cause of the collapse. Chris Messerly '81, lead attorney for a consortium of attorneys in the Twin Cities representing more than 100 clients, announced a settlement in the case. Read the article.

NPR (August 24, 2010)

Some critics argue the trend of patients with diseases like cancer to display ribbons, buttons or bumper stickers has become just another corporate marketing opportunity. A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences Susan E. Bell, who has studied patient responses from artists' books to photography to large political organizations, says it is a way to bring attention to issues surrounding illness by wearing clothing and wristbands, even tattooing, as a way to raise social and political awareness, or as a strategy for survival.

"It's a way of making it visible," says Bell in the NPR piece, "giving people some way of trying to destigmatize their conditions and to signal and make connections with people who might have, or know someone with, similar conditions."Read the text of the story.

The New York Times (August 17, 2010)

Advice to first-years from Dean of Student Affairs Tim Foster gets a second round of play in the Times. Bits of Foster's advice were first published July 15, 2010, when his insights opened and closed the article, "Goodbye, Hello," a piece about the transitions students make as they enter college.

Foster advises students not to fill their free time "by compulsively engaging in things." "In college," he says in the article, "decide what really matters to you — your academic and extracurricular passions — and pursue them. Vital engagement will be much more satisfying and fulfilling than compulsive engagement." That timeless advice was reiterated when parts of it (and a link to the original article) were published in a new article, "Put Yourself Out There and Do Something Crazy," on the education blog, The Choice. Read the article.

The Boston Globe (August 15, 2010)

From the coast of Oregon to the coast of Maine, five women from Bowdoin biked their way to the College and blogged about it as they did. Amie Corso, Lucia Cowles, Claire Ellwanger, Tamara Perreault and Danielle Willey — all members of the Class of 2012 — began their 3,000-mile journey June 16, 2010. A sixth student, Kenzie Novak '12, joined the group mid-trip. Read the article.

The Boston Globe (August 4, 2010)

The travel article, "The Book on an Old College Town,” highlights the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. Read the article.

CNBC (July 30, 2010)

Thomas O'Halloran '77, portfolio manager and partner at financial management firm Lord, Abbett & Co., was a guest on CNBC, discussing the Lord Abbett Developing Growth Fund, a small cap fund with $1.5 billion under management, as part of the network's series, "Claim to Fame," highlighting what it calls "all-star fund managers." O'Halloran's daughter Charlotte is a member of the Class of 2013. Watch the segment.

The New York Times (July 25, 2010)

The quarterly Sunday insert "Education Life" includes the article, "Hello, Goodbye," about the transition students make from high school to college. The piece opens and closes with quotes from Dean of Students Tim Foster, who advises new students to "slow down and live in the moment" and reminds them: "You have the opportunity, at a key transition point, to reimagine your life." Read the article.

The New York Times (July 22, 2010)

The article, "Belts That Spare Muffy The Heartbreak," highlights the preppy needlepoint belts made by Smathers & Branson, a company founded by Austin Branson '04 and Peter Smathers Carter '04, and mentions that the two were roommates at Bowdoin. Read the article.

The New York Times (July 13, 2010)

The research of Dr. Kevin Oh '01 into the dating and mating of house finches is the subject of the article, "Love Among Finches: It's Not All About Looks." Read the article.

The New York Times (July 5, 2010)

Bowdoin students complete a tutorial illustrating how to cite a source — or even someone else's ideas. Part of the reason, says Associate Professor of Psychology Suzanne Lovett in this article, is that "Internet-age students see so many examples of text, music and images copied online without credit that they may not fully understand the idea of plagiarism." Read the article.

The Boston Globe (June 13, 2010)

Dr. Theresa Hadlock '90, part of a team of doctors and nurses working in Quito, Ecuador, to provide treatment for microtia — a congenital defect that results in the absence of one or both ears — is featured in the article, "I Feel Happy At Last To Be Like Other Children." Read the article.

Nature (June 10, 2010)

Bowdoin is held up as an exemplar among institutions applying career flexibility policies from the corporate world to that of academia in the article, "Gender Stop-Gaps," which explores the various efforts underway by colleges and universities to bring more women into academic science. Read the article.

The Washington Post (June 9, 2010)

Charles Weston Pickard Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Emeritus David Page and the College are mentioned amid a story examining scientists' ability to identify oil — wherever it turns up — from a specific oil spill. Read the article.

The Irish Times (June 3, 2010)

A letter by Assistant Professor of Government Shelley Deane regarding the 'siege mentality' was published in the wake of the Israeli raid on the Gaza aid convoy. Read the article.

US Airways magazine (June 2010)

The College is listed in a piece that is part of a three-article spread on Portland and the Casco Bay Region.

Military Times Edge (May 31, 2010)

Alex Cornell du Houx '06, Maine state representative and U.S. Marine Corps reservist, is the subject of the profile, "My Great New Life: From Leatherneck to Lawmaker."

The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 30, 2010)

Barry N. Wish Professor of Psychology and Social Studies Barbara Held, author of Stop Smiling, Start Kvetching: A 5-Step Guide to Creative Complaining, is quoted in "The Power of a Positive Thinker," a lengthy feature profile of Martin Seligman, said to have fathered positive psychology.

"We didn't get into 9/11 because of too much pessimism," says Held in the article. "We didn't have the Great Recession because of too much pessimism. These catastrophes didn't happen because too many people were thinking about what could go wrong." Read the article.

The New York Times (May 23, 2010)

An American Type, a posthumous novel by Henry Roth, who died in 1995, came to publication largely because of the editing of Willing Davidson '99, a fiction editor at The New Yorker, as detailed in the article, "Breathing Life Into Henry Roth." Read the article.