Student Life

Bowdoin Junior Competes on Jeopardy! College Championship

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.

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Bowdoin Experts: What Students Can Do About Climate Change

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.

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Theater Prof Shares Public Speaking Tips with Students

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.

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Bowdoin Seniors Leave Global Magazine as Legacy

Gus Vergara and Stanton Plummer-Cambridge said they launched The Bowdoin Globalist to reflect Bowdoin's broad reach.

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Apekshya Prasai ‘16 Wins Peace Grant to Work with Nepalese Street Boys

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.

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Erica Berry ’14 Wins Udall Scholarship

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."

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Senior Class Shares Hidden Talents

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.

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Former Bowdoin Fraternity Honors Student Artists

The former Bowdoin fraternity Delta Sigma/Delta Upsilon recently awarded $200 each to five students for their art they submitted to its annual competition.

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Women's Ultimate Frisbee Team Sweeps Tournament

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.

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Taekwondo Master Golden Owens ’15

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.

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Art Students Take Whirlwind Trip to NYC

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.

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‘Best Campus Food’ Colleges Showcase Top Dishes

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.”

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Team IMPACT Recruit Makes a Difference for B-Ball Team

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.

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Extra Training for Bowdoin Finance Students

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.

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Faculty and Staff Outcook Students with Wild Mushroom Ravioli

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.

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