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International Scholarship

prof hall and students presenting research in florence italy, dec 2025
Bowdoin Students Join Professor Crystal Hall to Present Research in Italy

Digital humanities scholar Crystal Hall and two of her students address a literary conference in Florence, Italy, thanks to funding from the Office of Student Fellowships and the Digital and Computational Studies Program. The subject under the spotlight: women’s rights at the turn of the twentieth century.and DCS Enrichment Grants

Student-Centered Research

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Bowdoin Among 2026 Beckman Scholars Program Awardees

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has announced that Bowdoin is among the US colleges and universities receiving funding from its Beckman Scholars Program, which is part of the foundation’s mission of supporting basic research in the chemistry and life sciences.

Human Actions Leave Traces

kolster plastiglomerate TN
Plastiglomerates: How Humanity Is Entering the Geological Record

For his latest book, visual arts professor Michael Kolster took his camera to Hawaiʻi to explore a possible new addition to the fossil record. Plastiglomerates are formed when marine-borne plastic washes up on a beach and, when heated by campfires, fuses with lava to create a new kind of “stone”—a lasting reminder of man’s presence on the earth.

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