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Grad caps fill the sky at Bowdoin graduation.
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The skies over Bowdoin College for Commencement Weekend.
Congratulations to the Bowdoin Class of 2024!
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A Banner Day

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Bowdoin College Celebrates 219th Commencement

Graduating seniors, most of whom started at Bowdoin during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, were joined by friends and family as the College conferred 475 bachelor of arts degrees on the Class of 2024. The 219th Commencement was held on the steps of the Walker Art Building on the morning of Saturday, May 25, 2024.

Bending Language and Genre

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Students Read Into a Booming Book Trend in Latin America

This spring, Nadia Celis, a professor of Romance languages and literatures, taught a new class about a burgeoning field of young Latin American women writers. The Bowdoin Library supported her by purchasing more than 300 new novels and nonfiction books, many of them in Spanish.

A Grim Milestone

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Standing with Evan

Global support for Evan Gershkovich ’14 remains strong one year after his imprisonment, as supporters of the jailed Wall Street Journal reporter take part in a series of coordinated activities around the world.