Bowdoin's One Day campaign hopes to raise awareness in the alumni community that there is a day in the academic year when tuition and endowment disbursements "run out" as revenue sources, and the rest of the year is symbolically funded by current-use gifts. This year, that day falls on April 23; thus the goal is raise 423 gifts on 4/23.
On Saturday, April 13, as part of the Portland Conservatory of Music’s 5th Annual Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival, Associate Professor Vineet Shende and the Oratorio Chorale will preview Shende’s new work for chorus and guitar, titled Pravasa: Travels of the Guitar.
Ryan Larochelle ’13 will present his research on American health care economics—focusing on the link between health insurance and employment—tomorrow at 8:30 PM in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center.
Cindy Cammarn ’14 will be Bowdoin's first student contestant on Jeopardy!, at least as far back as 1984, when Alex Trebak started hosting the game show.
Bowdoin's video intern, Sean Martin, catches campus reactions to the sweet stuff as Cawthon demonstrates on Coe Quad how to boil the sap down into maple syrup, which is then served in the dining halls.
Assistant Director of First-Year Programs Michael Wood offered the session because public speaking is a core skill that isn’t directly part of the college offerings but nonetheless is an important skill.
Composer Elliott Schwartz, Robert K. Beckwith Professor of Music Emeritus, is releasing a new CD of chamber music titled “Tapestry.”
Carvings of drummers, dancers, acrobats and spirits of all sorts area on view in the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum’s newest exhibit, Spirits of Land, Air, and Water: Antler Carvings from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection.
Gus Vergara and Stanton Plummer-Cambridge said they launched The Bowdoin Globalist to reflect Bowdoin's broad reach.
After starting her education at Bowdoin last fall and getting involved in community-service projects to help the homeless here in the United States, Apekshya Prasai ’16 began to think differently about Nepalese street boys. Instead of viewing them as a scourge on Kathmandu, she now sees them as the product of a damaged society that is still recovering from a devastating civil war.
Erica Berry, an English and environmental studies major, describes in her Udall application that she strives to "write narrative nonfiction about the intersections between the ever-shifting environment and humanity."
The former Bowdoin fraternity Delta Sigma/Delta Upsilon recently awarded $200 each to five students for their art they submitted to its annual competition.
David Bruce ’13 is one of 40 students around the country who has won a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which gives graduating seniors $25,000 and the dictate to pursue a subject or issue that fascinates them. They must not return to the United States for 12 months.
The Bowdoin women's frisbee team, Chaos Theory, drove to St. Simon's, Ga. over spring break to face teams from all over the country, including Lehigh, University of Texas at Arlington, American University, Rochester, Syracuse and a few others.
Assistant Professor of Economics Daniel Stone's paper “Media and Gridlock,” published in the Journal of Public Economics, is referenced in the Boston Globe‘s “Ideas” section.