News

Ramping Up, Ramping Down: A Year of COVID Testing

For the past year, Bowdoin Head Athletic Trainer Dan Davies and his team have been running the College's COVID-19 testing center, helping to collect thousands of nasal swab tests to keep the coronavirus at bay. Their job is finally winding down.

A COVID-19 Archive

Thinking Ahead: Bowdoin Launches Oral History of the Pandemic

Bowdoin has enlisted the help of an oral historian to collect the COVID-related stories of administrators, faculty, staff, and students. Together, these will serve as a rich source of material for future historians.
Stories that Change Lives

Animated Film Portrays the Story of Bill De La Rosa ’16

Bill De La Rosa ’16 is the inspiration for a new animated short that explores the social and political forces that can pull people together or tear them apart.
Lettuce Go Forth

Aquaponic Farmer Trevor Kenkel ’18 Grows Springworks to Accommodate Increased Demand

Trevor Kenkel ’18, founder and president of Springworks Farm, the largest and first certified organic aquaponic farming operation in New England, has announced an expansion of its greenhouse space to meet increased demand for organic lettuce and other greens.
Old Sounds in the New World

Music Scholar Secures Funding to Study Sacred Sounds from the Mexican Baroque

Assistant Professor of Music Ireri Chávez-Bárcenas earns a summer stipend from the NEH, enabling her to spend the break exploring the cultural impact of devotional songs in seventeenth-century New Spain (modern-day Mexico).
Fellowships, Internships

Jobs Placements, Academic Research, Community Work: Keeping Busy through the Summer

More than 300 students have secured funding through Bowdoin enabling them to pursue a variety of activities through the summer months, whether it’s community service, academic research, or funded internships.
Pride and Joy

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich and a Double Dose of Joy and Empowerment in Two New York Times Pieces

It’s perhaps a sign of the times that Alex Marzano-Lesnevich has been in the Times twice in as many weeks.
Fireside Chat

A Conversation with Ted Ames H'20

Ted Ames H'20—commercial fisherman, scientific researcher, educator, and advocate for marine conservation and sustainable fisheries in the Gulf of Maine—talks with Geoff Trussell '90, director and professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern College of Science, in the first in a series of fireside chats with the College's 2020 honorary degree recipients.
Learn the Language!

Reporting from Jerusalem

Adam Rasgon ’13 has one piece of advice for students wanting to follow in his footsteps: learn the language. His fluency in Arabic, he says, is crucial to his work as Jerusalem correspondent for The New York Times.
Visionary Volent

Paula Volent Honored with CEE Visionary Award

Chief Investment Officer and Senior Vice President Paula Volent has been honored by the Council for Economic Education with the organization’s Visionary Award.
Climate News

New Attention to Old Frost: A Spotlight on Phil Camill's Recent Research

Research by Phil Camill and his colleagues about the future climate impacts of peatlands has been highlighted in Eos, an Earth and space science news source.
Celebrating Serwer

New York Financial Writers’ Association Honors Andy Serwer ’81, P’16, P’20

Bowdoin College Trustee and Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer ’81, P’16, P’20 has been named the recipient of the New York Financial Writers’ Association’s (NYFWA) Elliott V. Bell Award, which honors journalists who have made significant contributions to the field of financial journalism.
Civil Rights Heroes

Bowdoin Originals: 1960s Civil Rights Broadsides Come to Light

In the summer of 1964, David Anderson ’55 found a pair of prints at a local bookshop featuring two prominent American abolitionists: William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass. He recently donated them to Bowdoin.
Why Authors Write

The Case for Fiction: Brock Clarke Discusses Latest Work

The acclaimed author and English professor publishes a collection of fifteen essays, written over twenty years, exploring the art of writing fiction. Why do people write fiction? he asks. Why do people read it?
Viruses, Be Gone

Professor and Student Make Breakthroughs on Cheap, Effective Way to Sterilize PPE

Physics professor Dale Syphers and physics major Joyce Bor ’22 are figuring out how to clear medical masks of viruses quickly and cheaply to help hospitals around the world reuse them multiple times.