Summer 2023—Faculty Updates

Below are four stories about faculty activities that appeared on the Bowdoin website over the summer:

• Patty Jones, assistant professor of biology and director of the Bowdoin College Scientific Station on Kent Island, is spearheading a project funded by the National Science Foundation to understand why the hardy Leach’s Storm Petrel often defies ecological norms in its ability to grow, reproduce, and live a long life.
• Katherine Dauge-Roth, associate professor of Romance languages and literatures, received a stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to explore attitudes toward race in seventeenth-century France and why this remains important.
• Professor of Government and Gary M. Pendy Sr. Professor of Social Sciences Jean Yarbrough addressed a prestigious international conference, the Tocqueville Conversations, to appear on a panel.
• Two of Bowdoin's marine biology faculty—Amy Johnson and Katie DuBois—oversaw large research initiatives with fourteen student mentees at the Schiller Coastal Studies Center that produced high-quality data that will likely lead to several articles.