As Bowdoin Outing Club Director Mike Woodruff '87 attests there will be plenty of fun things to do at Reunion 2012. Whether you’re looking to reconnect with friends in person, visit old haunts, or simply see what’s new on campus, Reunion Weekend, May 31-June 3, 2012, has a lot to offer.
Bowdoin will hold its 207th Commencement ceremony at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 26, 2012, and confer bachelor of arts degrees on 450 graduates.
Bowdoin art majors in the Class of 2012 held a show Friday night in the Fort Andross Mill in downtown Brunswick, displaying a wide range of accomplished art.
This year’s Community Matters in Maine fellows gathered recently to hear more about what to expect from the best source: alumni of the program.
The Bowdoin College Board of Trustees elected four new members and a vice chair, re-elected three members, and approved the election of three trustees to emeritus status during meetings held May 11-13, 2012, on campus.
Artist books made by the students in Carrie Scanga’s Printmaking I class are on display in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library for the next three weeks.
Bowdoin’s annual Scholarship Appreciation Luncheon — an event President Barry Mills has called “the most important gathering of the year at Bowdoin" — was held Thursday, May 10, 2012, in Thorne Hall.
The annual tradition of holding student dances on the steps of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art had to be rescheduled this year because of rain, but the wait was worth it. On a glorious Monday evening, students performed dances they’d been practicing all semester, from modern ensembles to belly dances. The second half of Museum Pieces will be shown next week.
Bowdoin's student-athletes are charging forward to champion sustainability, bringing the fight for the Polar Bears to the Polar Bears.
Bowdoin College held its 16th annual Honors Day ceremony to recognize publicly the college-wide academic and extracurricular achievements of Bowdoin students and faculty. The ceremony was held May 9, 2012, at Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall.
Sarah Siwak '13, of Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., has been selected for a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study intensive advanced Russian during the summer of 2012.
Associate Professor of Government Michael Franz weighs in on the role of superPACS in an NPR piece looking at how these funding machines are tied into the apparent increase in negative campaign ads. Franz is part of a team examining the political ads on broadcast TV and national cable.
Juniors Mariya Ilyas and Amar Patel, as well as Sustainable Bowdoin, have received awards from Maine Campus Compact, a consortium of 18 higher education institutions dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement and service learning in higher education.
Jesus Navarro ’13 started out playing video games as a kid. Then he began fixing the video games when they broke. Then he became interested in building computers. Today, he’s breaking new ground in computer security.
Senior Sarah Glaser has set up an import/export business to help Ghanaian artists sell their work in the United States.
Books on the history of the College, long out of print and rarely available outside the confines of the Bowdoin College Library, are now freely accessible on the Web from anywhere in the world thanks to Bowdoin’s participation in the LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative, a Sloan Foundation grant-subsidized program that has made digitization easy and affordable for libraries and cultural institutions across the country.