Stories From Here

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  Bowdoin Announces Sequel to First Promise Challenge

  A group of trustees has anonymously created an exciting new financial aid challenge for the College, contributing $5 million in matching funds for financial aid to encourage others to support this core campaign priority.
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  Funded Internship Grant Recipients Make Waves Across the Country

  This summer, nearly a hundred students received funded internship grants from Career Exploration and Development (CXD), which provides students with a $5,000 stipend so they can pursue unpaid internships in their areas of interest.
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  Within Reach: the Strauss Fund for Comprehensive Aid

  “We are proud that this fund will provide aid for students beyond traditional financial aid, for things like laptop computers, warm winter coats and boots, and travel to job interviews.”
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  Bowdoin Announces New Chairs to Honor Distinguished Black Graduates

  The College has announced the creation of four new endowed faculty professorships that honor distinguished Black graduates of the College.
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  Bowdoin Announces Increased Student Aid Budget

  Bowdoin College is announcing a significant increase in the total amount of financial aid it will make available to qualifying students each year.
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  After Call for Help, Alumni and Family Members Respond with Hundreds of Jobs

  In a recent email sent out to the Bowdoin community, President Clayton Rose asked for leads on jobs or internships for this year's graduates, who are facing an uncertain economy due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  Africana Studies Becomes a Department

  More than half a century after it was established at Bowdoin, the Africana Studies Program is now becoming a fully fledged academic department. The symbolic but significant change was announced at the March 9 faculty meeting and is effective immediately.
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  Virtual Bootcamp: Sophomores Get In Shape to Find Jobs (and Have a Few Laughs)

  A record number of students and alumni participated in Career Exploration and Development's annual Sophomore Bootcamp, a weeklong workshop offered virtually this year to help the Class of 2023 find their next internship or job.
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  Expansion of Schiller Coastal Studies Center Is Complete

  Some nineteen months after getting underway, the expansion of the Schiller Coastal Studies Center is now complete. The 118-acre Harpswell facility, located about thirteen miles from the Bowdoin campus, now offers an even wider range of possibilities for students and researchers studying the ocean and the environment.
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  Bowdoin Endowment Critical to Financial Aid in Challenging Times

  The Bowdoin College endowment, of which nearly half is permanently restricted by donors to the support of student financial aid, generated an investment return of 5.9 percent for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2020.
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  Doherty Charitable Foundation Supports New Postdoctoral Program for the Bowdoin Scientific Field Station at Kent Island

  With a recent $1 million grant from the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation, Bowdoin is on its way to establishing a permanent postdoctoral program based on Kent Island.
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  Class of 2020 Kicks Off Senior Class Giving Campaign

  The Bowdoin Class of 2020 launched their class scholarship fund in style, and they're aiming for an 80 percent participation rate before graduation.
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  Staying Connected Coast to Coast: Elizabeth Aaroe ’81

  When Elizabeth Aaroe ’81 moved to Oregon with her husband in 1998 for a business opportunity, her emotional ties to Bowdoin didn’t diminish with the long physical distance.
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  D. Ellen Shuman ’76 Honors Paul Douglas, Class of 1913, “A Moral Exemplar For His Contemporaries”

  D. Ellen Shuman ’76 chose to honor the integrity and public service of Illinois senator Paul H. Douglas, Class of 1913, with a scholarship fund for students who are committed to serving the common good.
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  Expanding Coastal Studies: Meet the Schillers

  A major gift from Philip Schiller and Kim Gassett-Schiller P’17 allows Bowdoin to substantially expand opportunities for students studying oceans and the environment at its Coastal Studies Center.
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  Making the “Pat on the Back” Permanent at Bowdoin

  Paul Nixon was dean of students for almost thirty years, and his diaries tell of the very real needs felt by his charges. The Dean Nixon Discretionary Fund is a seed that has grown into our push for endowed comprehensive aid.
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  Finding a Grandfather, and a Community, at Bowdoin

  A business trip brings a woman closer to her grandfather, and the school he loved dearly.
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  “This is the profound value of mentorship, friendship, and leadership.”

  The inspiration for Kary Antholis ’84 to start the Andrew Haldane ’41 Scholarship Fund came not during a campus visit or an alumni meet-up, but at work—overseeing HBO's World War II miniseries The Pacific.
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  Consistency from Cliff Island: Roger Berle ’64

  Roger Berle ’64 started his annual giving to Bowdoin with a gift of $10. It's been fifty-four years, and he hasn't missed a year since.
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  “If you know what you're doing is right, you just have to stand firm.”

  Cybersecurity expert Maj. Marnita Thompson Eaddie ’90 (USAF, Ret.) said that her decision to come to Brunswick for college was simple.
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  Funded Internship: Empowerment through Sport

  Kendall Rogers ’21 took his passion for lacrosse to New York City for the summer. He had a funded internship with the nonprofit Harlem Lacrosse, which helps children who are academically at risk by inspiring them athletically.
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  “I was accepted, and that’s when I panicked.”

  Boston sportscaster Dale Arnold ’79, P’07 was not a traditional Bowdoin student. He grew up in rural Maine and married his high school sweetheart, Susan, before ever setting foot on campus.