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Chertavian '87 Non-Profit Receives $4.5 Million Grant
Year Up, a national non-profit organization founded by Gerald Chertavian '87, is receiving a $4.5 million grant for its Washington, D.C., chapter from Venture Philanthropy Partners.
Potholm to Appear on NBC Nightly News
In what will be his second television network news appearance in three weeks, Professor Christian Potholm is to be included in a story about Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) to air on The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.
2009 Dorm Energy Conservation Competition Best Yet
The 8th annual Dorm Energy Conservation Competition held in October was a success — surpassing energy savings from contests in previous years.
Museum's "Extraordinary" Bearden Exhibition Spotlighted in Maine Sunday Telegram, Portland Phoenix
From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden, the impressive exhibition that has practically overtaken the Museum of Art (its 75 works take visitors through the Bernard and Barbro Osher, Halford and Center galleries), is dazzling audiences and reviewers alike.
Brett Wickard '90, Bull Moose and the Sounds of Success
Brett Wickard '90 has come a long way since starting a record store in downtown Brunswick while still a student. Twenty years later, Bull Moose Music has 10 stores in Maine and New Hampshire. Wickard, of Cumberland, Maine, and his business are profiled in the November 16, 2009, edition of the Portland Press Herald.
Common Good Grant Committee Solicits Proposals from Community
The Common Good Grant Committee is requesting proposals from community organizations for this year's grant. Now in its ninth year, the Common Good Grant provides more than $10,000 to local non-profits serving the greater Brunswick community.
Rebecca Podell '10, Molly Randall '10 Recognized by MPA
Rebecca Podell '10 and Molly Randall '10 were awarded the Maine Psychological Association's Chuck Rothstein Award for Excellence at the MPA's annual meeting in Augusta November 6, 2009.
Video: Emma Verrill '10 on WCSH, Blog from Istanbul
Emma Verrill '10, in Istanbul, Turkey, to share her experience traveling with a disability, was featured on the WCSH newsmagazine 207 November 10, 2009.
Bowdoin Earns United Way's Education Division Award
United Way of Mid Coast Maine's fall campaign to help local people in need exceeded its $1.9 million goal, raising a total of $2,009,923. At a ceremony celebrating the campaign's finale, held in Moulton Union November 4, 2009, the College was presented with the United Way's Education Division Award.
Kyle Dempsey '11 Receives Mitchell Institute Award
The Senator George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute, whose mission is to increase the likelihood that young people from every community in Maine will aspire to, pursue and achieve a college education, has awarded Kyle Dempsey '11, of East Millinocket, its 2009 Paddy Frank Walsh Pioneer Scholar Award.
Max Goldstein '09 Travels World: Swimming, Learning, Blogging
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."
Songs of the Civil War Provide Lessons on MPBN
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.
Mark Swann '84 Champions the Fight Against Homelessness in Down East
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.
Video: Prof. Potholm on ABC World News Sunday, Huffington Post
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.
Joan Benoit Samuelson '79 Sets NYC Marathon Record
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.
253 Scholars Honored at 2009 Sarah and James Bowdoin Day Ceremony
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.