News

Sophomore Bootcamp 2023: Basic Training for Getting That First Great Job

Finding a job—especially that first one—is a job in itself, one that requires specific skills. This is what Sophomore Bootcamp is all about.

IT Leadership in Higher Ed

One Year In, a New Diversity Fellowship is Already Impacting the Tech Industry

In the inaugural year of the Next Leaders Fellowship, twelve fellows learned and worked together, and saw their careers grow. The next cohort of fellows has recently been selected, and will begin the program in March.
Clearing up a Muddy Issue

EOS Professor Warns of Global Mining Crisis in Tropical Rivers

Evan Dethier, visiting assistant professor of earth and oceanographic science, began the new year with a feature article in Science News.
Neglected Female Voices

“The Thailand You Don't Know”

Religion and Asian studies scholar John Holt’s latest publication highlights the tribulations of Muslim women in southern Thailand who have suffered for nearly two decades at the hands of the country’s military authorities.
Climate Change Hardiness

Professor and Student Help Research Mobile Home Resilience in Maine

Environmental studies professor Eileen Johnson and Harry Cooper ’22 have joined a federally funded study to evaluate the vulnerability of mobile home parks to flooding or extreme temperatures.
Event Preview: January 26

‘Hope Comes from the People Making it Happen:’ Bowdoin Cohosts First “Women in Climate” Event

The January 26 event, “Women in Climate: Community,” will be the first in a series The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Maine is launching to highlight women who are protecting our communities, rivers, oceans, forests, air, and public health.
Putting on a Show

Students Stage Andean Art Exhibition, Meet Artists

Professor Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego wanted her students to embrace more than literature in her class on the culture of the South American Andes—which is why they have curated their own exhibition.
America and Whiteness

Bowdoin’s McCarroll on JD Vance and “White Exceptionalism”

Director of Writing and Rhetoric Meredith McCarroll asks what the career of Hillbilly Elegy author and freshman Republican Senator JD Vance tells us about America’s relationship with whiteness.
History of Geometry

Wing Lecture: How Mathematics Changes over Time

Mathematics scholar Jennifer Taback delivered “a brief—and subjective—history of geometry” in her inaugural lecture as the Isaac Henry Wing Professor of Mathematics.
Snow Family Fellowship

Education Department Offers New Teaching Fellowship

The Department of Education this fall began a fellowship program to give graduates more teaching experience on campus before they enroll in its Bowdoin Teacher Scholars (BTS) program.
The Fourth Estate

Where Are They Now? Bowdoin Orient Alumni on the Record

The Bowdoin Orient, the College’s student newspaper and the nation’s oldest continuously published college weekly, has had countless student journalists covering Bowdoin news over its 150 years of operation.
A Multidisciplinary Approach

Visual Learning: German Students Embrace Art

Students of German cultural history tap into some of the resources on offer at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, where an exhibition of masks from nineteenth-century Oceania adds fresh perspective to the study of colonialism.
A Time to Reflect

Celebrating the Midyear “Completers”

Bowdoin honors those students who have completed their coursework midway through the academic year.
Parable Path Poetry Night

Student Poets “Say What's Real”

Poet Weatherspoon ’25, in collaboration with The Bowdoin Review, invited fellow students to read their poetry at a recent concert. The event was part of Bowdoin's yearlong commitment to exploring themes in Octavia Butler's novel Parable of the Sower.
Destination Stockholm

Nobel Prize Winner Recognizes Bowdoin Chemistry Scholar Danielle Dube for Research Help

The chemistry and biochemistry scholar was invited to the Nobel Prize ceremony in Sweden by this year’s chemistry laureate. As a former student of Carolyn Bertozzi, Danielle Dube contributed directly to the prizewinning research.