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.
A panel of six faculty members, plus College Treasurer Katy Longley, recently addressed a student-posed query about what Bowdoin students could do about climate change.
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.
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."
It’s no secret that Bowdoin students have a variety of talents, skills and interests, but this weekend, the Class of 2013 learned that many of their classmates have special talents they don’t often have the opportunity to share. This weekend's Senior Class Talent Show let students put their abilities — from the crafty, to the musical, to the just plain quirky — on display one last time before graduation.
The former Bowdoin fraternity Delta Sigma/Delta Upsilon recently awarded $200 each to five students for their art they submitted to its annual competition.
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.
Golden Owens has been doing taekwondo since she was four; she started classes a few years after her dad (also a master) took up the martial art.
Mark Wethli, Bowdoin’s A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Art, took nine of his studio art majors to New York City for a gallery-, studio- and museum-packed weekend.
Bowdoin College chefs recently traveled to Amherst, Mass. to join cooks from five other colleges named by the Princeton Review as serving “Best Campus Food.”
The men’s basketball team is one of many teams at Bowdoin that has worked with the nonprofit Team IMPACT to recruit a young player with life-threatening illnesses. The basketball team’s newest member, Caleb Merrill, a basketball fan, helps motivate the team and gives them inspiration.
Thirty students interested in finance gathered in Druckenmiller Hall on a recent Saturday afternoon to learn the financial models they’ll need to know for entry-level finance positions.
The 9th Annual Doug Pollock Polar Chef Cooking Competition this year in Thorne Dining Hall pitted a team of seasoned faculty and staff against a team of fresh students.