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Still Unbeaten, Northern Bites Advance to RoboCup World Championship Semifinals
The Northern Bites, Bowdoin's team of soccer-playing humanoid robots and their student programmers, are 6-0 as they advance to the semifinal round of the 2009 RoboCup World Championship games going on in Graz, Austria.
Winning Streak Continues for Northern Bites at RoboCup World Championship
The Northern Bites, Bowdoin's RoboCup team of 22-inch-tall humanoid robots, have been unstoppable so far at the 2009 RoboCup World Championships in Graz, Austria. The team has a perfect 5-0 record in pool play entering Saturday's quarterfinal games.
Northern Bites Unbeaten So Far at RoboCup World Championship Games
The Northern Bites are on a roll at the 2009 World Championship competition in Graz, Austria, unbeaten after three matches. The RoboCup team won its third game Thursday, beating the Nao Devils from Germany by a score of 2-0.
Strong Bowdoin Presence in Teach for America's 2009 Teaching Corps
Bowdoin is ranked among the top 20 small-sized colleges and universities contributing graduating seniors to Teach for America's 2009 corps.
Northern Bites Off to Winning Start at RoboCup 2009 World Championship Games
The Northern Bites, Bowdoin's RoboCup team, have two wins under their belts at the 2009 World Championship competition going on through July 5 in Graz, Austria. Bowdoin won its first match, 2-0, over the Eagle Knights, a team from Mexico, and won its second match by a score of 2-0 over Nao Team HTWK from Germany.
Zac Skipp '11: The Man Behind the Scenes
Zac Skipp '11 says he wants to become a filmmaker, but one look at his impressive resume shows he has already spent nearly half his life in that role.
Obama Praises Geoffrey Canada '74, Harlem Children's Zone
Speaking at a White House event Tuesday, June 30, 2009, designed to highlight innovative non-profit programs that are making a difference in communities across the country, President Barack Obama praised the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) and its president and CEO Geoffrey Canada '74.
President Mills Speaks at Maine Historical Society's Brown Library Dedication
President Mills affirmed the bonds between Bowdoin and the Maine Historical Society at the dedication of the Society's Alida Carroll and John Marshall Brown Library in Portland.
Bowdoin in the News: June in Review
The Bowdoin episode of the hit HBO series The Sopranos is named the second best in the history of television and Jennifer Scanlon's Bad Girls Go Everywhere goes abroad — just two of the ways in which Bowdoin was in the news in June.
RoboCup Team Heads to Austria for World Championship Games
The Northern Bites are in Graz, Austria, preparing to compete in the 2009 RoboCup World Championship Games. The Northern Bites will be among 24 teams competing for the world championship in the Standard Platform League.
Clif Olds Retires Again, This Time from Museum
Clifton C. Olds, Edith Cleaves Barry Professor of History and Criticism of Art Emeritus, will retire for a third time when he steps down from his position as interim director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art at the end of June 2009.
Helping Habitat for Humanity: Service Trip to Louisiana
The day after commencement, while Bowdoin's newest graduates were packing up and on their way home, six students, one staff member and one representative from Habitat for Humanity/7 Rivers Maine were heading south on a mission.
Karen Mills Talks Health Care Costs on CNBC
Karen Mills, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration and wife of President Barry Mills, shared her insight on the CNBC program Squawk Box Friday, June 19, 2009.
Eva Nagorski '92, Heaping Helpings of Revenge Served Up in Newsweek
Selling your cheating husband's expensive sports car for $1 on eBay, peeling the labels from all the bottles in his prized wine collection, and posting photos of him around the neighborhood with the caption "Wives Against Married Men Dating" — all samples of revenge exacted by wives hurt and angered by their spouse's philandering ways included in The Down and Dirty Dish on Revenge: Serving It Up Nice and Cold to that Lying, Cheating Bastard (St. Martin's Press) by Eva Nagorski '92.
Scanlon's Bad Girls Go Everywhere Goes Global
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown (Oxford University Press, 2009), Professor of Gender and Women's Studies Jennifer Scanlon's biography of the longtime Cosmopolitan editor, is being released in the United Kingdom to much fanfare in the London press and around the world.
Sopranos Episode Featuring Bowdoin Named Among TV Guide’s Best Ever
In its first season, the hit HBO series, The Sopranos wove Bowdoin into an ongoing storyline that dealt with Meadow Soprano's search for the perfect college. TV Guide has compiled a list of the greatest episodes of all time and ranked "College," the episode in which Meadow travels to Maine with her mobster father, Tony, to visit Bowdoin, Bates and Colby, the second-greatest episode in the history of television.