http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ en-us dcook@bowdoin.edu 2009-11-20T11:17:08-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006882.shtml 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. 6882@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-BowdoinCampus 2009-11-20T11:17:08-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006856.shtml 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. 6856@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-BowdoinCampus 2009-11-20T07:52:39-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006881.shtml 6881@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-BowdoinCampus 2009-11-19T11:52:45-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1academicnews/006879.shtml Students in Lawrence Zhang's first year seminar, The History of Tea in East Asia, are getting a true taste of scholarship. 6879@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-AcademicNews 2009-11-18T11:41:57-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006878.shtml 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. 6878@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-BowdoinCampus 2009-11-18T09:31:57-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006874.shtml 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. 6874@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-BowdoinCampus 2009-11-17T13:45:04-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1campusconstruction/006867.shtml In May 2009, the Board of Trustees approved the project that includes the replacement of two aging and inefficient boilers with a new high-efficiency, low emissions, dual-fuel (natural gas and #2 oil) boiler and the installation of a back pressure steam turbine, which will produce an estimated 1.65 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually. 6867@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-CampusConstruction 2009-11-16T14:30:48-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006863.shtml 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. 6863@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-BowdoinCampus 2009-11-16T12:54:21-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006851.shtml 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. 6851@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-BowdoinCampus 2009-11-12T08:50:41-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006830.shtml Emma Verrill '10, in Istanbul, Turkey, to share her experience traveling with a disability, was featured on the WCSH newsmagazine 207 November 10, 2009. 6830@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-BowdoinCampus 2009-11-11T11:24:54-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006850.shtml 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. 6850@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-BowdoinCampus 2009-11-11T08:30:26-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/006802.shtml 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. 6802@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-BowdoinCampus 2009-11-09T08:34:53-05:00 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." 6840@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-BowdoinCampus 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. 6836@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ 1-BowdoinCampus 2009-11-05T10:44:42-05:00 http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/german/006835.shtml This fall marks the 20th anniversary of the peaceful revolution in East Germany and the opening of the Berlin wall. The German department will commemorate the event with a three-film series titled "Beyond the Berlin Wall: A Retrospective 20 Years Later." 6835@http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/ German 2009-11-05T10:32:08-05:00