History

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  Snake Handling and Other Pursuits: Students Undertake Conservation Internships

  Rising senior Elizabeth Baker gets to grips with snakes and other less-than-furry creatures at the Kentucky Reptile Zoo. She is one of several students pursuing funded internships in the field of conservation over the summer.
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  Bowdoin's Matt Klingle Talks to the Washington Post about Unusual Heat Waves in the Northwest

  Matt Klingle, associate professor of history and environmental studies, is not hot (he's in relatively cool Maine) but is bothered by the climate perils facing the Pacific Northwest.
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  A Meeting of Two US Diplomats, from Bowdoin Classes Sixty Years Apart

  Mariya Ilyas ’13, who began her first foreign service assignment in Jordan in 2019, sat down with Thomas Pickering ’53, a longtime diplomat and 1984 Bowdoin honorand, to talk about their shared vocation.

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