Location: Bowdoin / Young Alumni Leadership Program / Alumni Fund

Support of the Alumni Fund is vital to maintaining the high quality education that you experienced as a student. Gifts of all sizes are important and we hope that you will make a gift to Bowdoin each year. The information below illustrates the impact that Alumni Fund gifts have on various campus departments:

Athletics

  • $10 – Dinner after a game
  • $25 – A game ball
  • $50 – Uniform for most sports
  • $10/month – A night lodging for three

Art

  • $10 – Subsidize one art history student on a departmental bus trip to Boston area museums
  • $25 – Purchase a high-quality digital image from a museum collection for use in teaching
  • $50 – Host a reception for students and faculty celebrating students' Honors Projects presentations
  • $50 – Purchase an exhibition catalogue for the Art Library
  • $100 – Provide small grants to support student research, through travel or purchase of materials

Biology

  • $100 – Honorarium for a biology seminar speaker

Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island

  • $10 – A day’s worth of food and supplies for a student researching at Kent Island
  • $50 – 1 Roundtrip on the Grand Manan ferry for a 7-passenger van full of students and faculty traveling to and from the Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island (to get to BSS/Kent Island, you first have to get to Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy, 10 miles off the coast of the U.S.-Canada border).
  • $10/month– Miniature radio transmitter tag--for tracking movements and studying behavior of small birds (e.g., Leach's storm-petrels, Savannah sparrows, tree swallows, etc.)

Career Planning

  • $50 – Covers participation in Maine-Based Employer Day
  • $10/month – Supports five students attending the annual Senior Etiquette Reception and Dinner

Center for the Common Good

  • $10 – Craft supplies for a Students Mentoring Through Art (SmART) activity
  • $25 – Community Course Liaison wages for a week
  • $50 – Gas to transport food donations from Bowdoin Dining to Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program for a month
  • $100 – Scholarships for four students to participate in weekend service trips
  • $10/month – Digital recorder for student interviews in Maine Social Research

Chemistry

  • $10 – One hour of TA instruction in lab
  • $25 – Chemicals for one lab session
  • $50 – Glassware for lab
  • $100 – 180 LT of liquid nitrogen.

Computer Science

  • $10 – One hour of TA instruction
  • $10/month – Payment of half the honorarium for a guest speaker

Dining Services

  • $10 – One blueberry bush for the organic garden
  • $25 – One case of cage free eggs (enough for one egg item at brunch)
  • $5/month – Covers a third of the cost of the organic garden’s electric fence (to keep deer out)
  • $100 – Purchases three gallons of Maine maple syrup (enough for Sunday brunch)

Environmental Studies

  • $20 – ID a tree at the Coastal Studies Center (help build an interpretive trail)
  • $30 – Potluck dinners at the Coastal Studies Center for faculty and students
  • $30 – Water quality monitoring kits
  • $50 – Microscope supplies for student research
  • $75 – Marine lab animal food and feeding supplies
  • $100 – Student expenses to attend a meeting or conference (preference given to honors students)
  • $100 – Aquarium supplies for marine lab animals (pumps, filters, etc.)
  • $10/month – Support for bringing a guest lecturer to Bowdoin
  • $250 – Funding to support SCUBA diving-based collection of marine animals (boat fuel, tanks, supplies, etc.)
  • $25/month – Supplies for DNA fingerprinting of marine life for student honors research project
  • $40/month – Temperature control equipment for marine lab tanks (Aquarium Chillers) to support student research

Film Studies

  • $150 – Would take students on a field trip to a local theatre to see a historically significant film

Geology

  • $10 Batteries – any and all sizes to operate our hand-held equipment
  • $25 – Cordless screwdriver
  • $50 – Adjustable wrench set
  • $50 – Fiberglass measuring tape 200'
  • $75 – Fiberglass measuring tape 300'
  • $100 – Hip Waders
  • $10/month – Socket wrench set

German

  • $10 – Guest pass to attend language table in Thorne with students
  • $25 – Copies of posters for campus events
  • $25 – Snacks for students attending field trips to museums, Quebec, etc.
  • $50 – Subsidy for students to attend local museums
  • $50 – German movie event on campus
  • $10/month– Partial payment for engraving of prize boards for German prizes

Latin American and Asian Studies

  • $25 – Covers a conversation over lunch for a student and guest speaker

Library

  • $10 – Set of headphones for students to listen to in-house materials
  • $10 – One Kindle or Sony e-reader title
  • $20 – Two ILL requests for articles or books delivered to our students or faculty
  • $20 – New Barbara Kingsolver book titled Lacuna
  • $50 – New monograph by Professor David Collings titled Monstrous Society: Reciprocity, Discipline, and the Political Uncanny
  • $5/month – Print subscription to the New Yorker
  • $100 – Ken Burns DVD, The National Parks
  • $10/month – Final exam break refreshments: coffee and cookies for 50

Mathematics

  • $10 – Meals at Smith Union for Math lunch seminars with students and faculty
  • $25 – Posters to promote department events
  • $10/month – Payment of honorarium to help with travel expenses for guest speaker

Music

  • $10 – One two-foot patch cable for use in Electronic Music
  • $25 – One deluxe support strap for a Bass Clarinet
  • $50 – Pair of Timpani Mallets
  • $10/month – Cost of orchestral parts for a very short orchestral work (William Tell Overture)
  • $15/month – Cost of a synthesizer (loaned to students for theory study)

Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity

  • $10 – A book for the Center
  • $25 – Magazine subscription
  • $100 – One dinner for LGBTIQ students to help them have a safe place to build community

Robocup

  • $10 – Colored Tennis Balls for Robot Soccer Games
  • $25 – AA/AAA Batteries for cameras
  • $50 – Metric set of little screwdrivers
  • $100 – setup/teardown fees for competitions

Sustainability

  • $200 – Composting Unit for a Social House
  • $420 – Wages for student EcoRep (responsible for promoting sustainability in the residence halls)
  • $45/month – Provide each incoming student with a CFL lightbulb
  • $50/month – Sponsor Bowdoin’s EcoService Day