Summer 2023—Student Updates

Below are updates on how some Bowdoin students spent their summer:

• Nearly two hundred students received Bowdoin funding to conduct research projects alongside faculty mentors.
• Bowdoin awarded a record number of summertime grants to students to pursue their dream internships in locations around the world—more than two hundred students received Bowdoin grants for either $6,000 or $7,000 to work for social, environmental, and arts nonprofits, as well as many kinds of businesses, science labs, and public offices. 
• Four students journeyed to the Arctic by various means—by schooner, ferry, or plane—to explore northern latitudes for different purposes—to do research, to learn new skills, and to travel for the sake of exploration and personal reflection.
• More than a dozen students were involved in as many research projects at the Schiller Coastal Studies Center. 
• At the Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island, ten students spent nine weeks immersed in research projects involving Leach’s Storm Petrels and Savannah sparrows, pollination biology, forest regeneration, and intertidal invertebrates and algae.
• The Bowdoin women's rowing team won a national championship.
• Students who were on campus over the summer had the opportunity to meet and talk with President Zaki at the summer cookout.