The Wall Street Journal reporter kept notes during the sixteen months he was incarcerated in a Russian jail, facing trumped up espionage charges. His new memoir, This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian-American Story, takes the reader inside the walls of Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo prison.
Sixty-two students joined one of the Outing Club's fall break trips this year, canoeing rivers and lakes in northern Maine river or backpacking the Bigelow Range.
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.
Hiking, skiing, and “packrafting,” two Bowdoin alums have spent the last five months on a grueling expedition as they circumvent one of North America’s largest islands, gathering scientific data on the way.
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.
