http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ en-us 2009-11-06T10:42:48-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006840.shtml Max Goldstein '09 is living the good life. "A life where I am confidently understanding what I love and pursuing just that," writes Goldstein in his blog chronicling his Thomas J. Watson Fellowship project, "Swimming Around the World: Creating Bridges Between Communities."]]> 1-BowdoinCampus dcook 2009-11-06T10:42:48-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006836.shtml A talk and musical performance by Josephine Cameron '98 titled "Songs of the Civil War Era" became the subject of a news segment that aired Tuesday, November 3, 2009, on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network.]]> 1-BowdoinCampus dcook 2009-11-05T10:44:42-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006828.shtml Logan Place, a collaboration between Avesta Housing and the social service agency Preble Street, is the focus of the article, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in the November 2009 issue of Down East magazine, which highlights the role of Mark Swann '84, Preble Street's executive director and the 2001 recipient of the Common Good Award.]]> 1-BowdoinCampus dcook 2009-11-03T10:32:16-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006773.shtml Maine has been in the national spotlight as residents decide whether to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage. An ABC News segment focusing on the issue aired Sunday, November 1, 2009, and included the observations of DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government Christian Potholm.]]> 1-BowdoinCampus dcook 2009-11-02T10:37:29-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006812.shtml Joan Benoit Samuelson '79 has done it again. The 1984 Olympic gold medalist and two-time Boston Marathon winner set a record Sunday, November 1, 2009, when she ran the New York City Marathon in 2 hours, 49 minutes and 9 seconds, breaking the 50-plus division record of 2:53:53 set by S. Rae Baymiller in 1993.]]> 1-BowdoinCampus dcook 2009-11-02T09:35:28-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006806.shtml Bowdoin's highest-ranking scholars were recognized at the College's Sarah and James Bowdoin Day exercises Friday, October 30, 2009. This years speakers were Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University, and Yongfang Chen '10.]]> 1-BowdoinCampus dcook 2009-10-30T17:00:00-05:00