In early October, Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies Shu-chin Tsui gathered scholars from around the world to examine the ecological entanglements created by humans and the impact of our material world.
As part of the Hastings Initiative, an acclaimed scholar of computational and social science visits campus to talk about AI and mental health. Georgia Tech’s Munmun De Choudhury asks if a system without lived experience can be a source of care.
Ellen Baxter, a member of the Class of 1975, will be awarded The Bowdoin Prize—the highest honor the College bestows upon its members—during a special ceremony to be held in March 2027.
The topic of public education is often a lightning rod for intense debate. Yet in focusing on what different factions feel is “wrong,” we risk overlooking what we have collectively done “right,” two education scholars recently argued at Bowdoin.
For this year’s Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Lecture, TV producer and writer David Simon, creator of The Wire, came to campus for a conversation with film executive Franklin Leonard, Bowdoin’s inaugural Herman S. Dreer Leadership Fellow.
In a series of stories over the next few months, we’ll be visiting courses in economics, English, philosophy, computer studies, and digital and computational studies that approach AI not as a tool to learn, but as a subject for inquiry.
