More than forty students received funding through the McKeen Center for the Common Good, and the Environmental Studies (ES) Program over the summer to work for local government and nonprofits that are protecting the environment and helping improve people's lives throughout the state of Maine.
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Environmental historian Matthew Klingle has been immersed in the study of public health and chronic disease, particularly diabetes, for many years. His scholarship was cited recently in a major study by Vanderbilt University’s cutting-edge public health research initiative.
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Students in the spring course Applied GIS and Remote Sensing worked collaboratively to provide the town of Topsham with updated maps and data for key environmental, conservation, and development areas.
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From national and international recognitions and important books and papers to explorations and performances that benefitted the Maine community and beyond in myriad ways, Bowdoin faculty enriched campus life this spring through a wide array of scholarly and artistic pursuits that extended well beyond the classroom.
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Adepoju Arogundade ’25 has secured a fellowship to live, work, and study for a year in Germany after graduation. He will explore the issue of sustainable transport in the country as part of a program run jointly by the US Congress and Germany’s Bundestag.
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The show by the environmental studies and Africana studies major “challenges the entangled histories of science, colonialism, and ecological ‘discovery’ at Bowdoin College.”
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Students are sharing their thoughts about environmental threats and climate change—and possible solutions—in a creative outpouring of haikus, op-eds, art, memes, social media, and limericks. Lots of limericks.
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Five Bowdoin faculty members have been appointed to named chairs at the College in recognition of their achievements as scholars and educators.
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Schendler returned to his alma mater on Friday, April 18 to discuss modern environmentalism and his recent book, Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering our Soul, published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2024.
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Maggie Thomas, the former special assistant to the president for climate, made her second visit to the College last week for a public discussion on climate politics with her friend Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Bowdoin’s Roux Distinguished Scholar.
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