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Library Launches Student-Curated Book Display Highlighting Indigenous Literature

Shandiin Largo '23 launches a collection inspired by her own Native American heritage. This is the latest installment of the Bowdoin library’s program to highlight texts by and about BIPOC authors and themes.

Myriad Pathways

Bootcamp 2022: Sophomores Lace Up Their Boots for Future Careers

Bowdoin's fourth annual Sophomore Bootcamp—an intensive winter-break program for career exploration and development—was bigger, longer, and more ambitious this year.
Winter Break Pursuits

Dance Therapy: One Way to Engage the Community

Sociology major Allie Pizzino '23 taps into her dance skills as part of her winter job with a nonprofit in Florida. She’s one of nearly twenty students pursuing a McKeen Center-funded community program, now in its second year.
Capturing Small Town Woes

Student Filmmaker Tackles Difficult Subjects in Feature Debut

Henry Spritz '23 has been making movies since middle school. His most recent project—Spritz’s first feature film—explores themes that are depressingly familiar to many who have grown up in small-town America.
From Literature to Life

How an Academic Paper Led a Professor and Recent Grad to Offer Aid to a City in Peru

What started as a literary article about an important port city of the Amazon turned into an effort to help local people severely sickened by COVID-19.
ESOP’s Fable

Bull Moose’s Brown: How Bowdoin Econ Class Prepared Me for Employee Sale

Bull Moose executive Chris Brown '91 says an economics paper he wrote as a sophomore on worker-owned businesses came in very handy recently, when the independent retail chain transferred ownership to its employees.
"In, Not Of"

The Collective Creativity of the Black Lady Art Group

Three students—Amie Sillah ’20, Amani Hite ’20, and Destiny Ariana Kearney ’21—formed the Black Lady Art Group in 2020 to pursue art in community with one another. They recently reflected on the experience and how it shaped their creative trajectories and their time at Bowdoin.
Producer Credit

Jonna McKone ’07 Film on Several “Best of 2021” Lists

All Light, Everywhere, a documentary on which Jonna McKone ’07 was a producer, has been included in a host of year-end “best of 2021” lists.
Studying the Mandaeans

Religion Scholar Jorunn Buckley Honored by Library of Congress

Professor of Religion Emerita Jorunn J. Buckley has made a life’s work out of studying a little-known religious sect from the Iran-Iraq region. Now, the Library of Congress is honoring her by acquiring her academic archive.
Distinguished Dedication

Yarbrough Awarded Claremont Institute’s Salvatori Prize

Jean Yarbrough, Bowdoin’s Gary M. Pendy Sr. Professor of Social Sciences, has been awarded the Claremont Institute’s Henry Salvatori Prize.
Visual Language

From Classroom to Local Community: Students Forge Environmental Connection through the Camera

The students in Professor Shu-chin Tsui's fall eco-cinema class studied how filmmakers in China are documenting and telling stories of environmental calamity. They also made their own short films, focusing their cameras on Maine.
A Complicated Past

"Cotton Town" Reveals Maine's Links to the Slave Trade

The opening of a new exhibit by Bowdoin students at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath sheds light on Maine's economic ties to the cotton industry and slavery.
Sustainably Special

Style and Substance: A Look at the Mills Hall-Gibbons Center Construction Project

Work is well underway on Barry Mills Hall and the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies, innovative buildings for both their style and building materials.
Avian Vision

Annie Kaempfer ’04 Releases Film about a Falconer Who Heals Birds and Humans

A new film by Annie Kaempfer ’04 that chronicles the life of a master falconer is attracting attention across the country, including at the Twin Cities Film Fest, the Atlanta Film Festival, and the Environmental Film Festival.
Trash into Art

Repurposing Litter: Artist Mariah Reading ’16 Profiled in People Magazine

When Mariah Reading goes hiking, she perks up when she sees a piece of trash. She knows she shouldn’t, she says, but every discarded item of litter is a potential work of art.