News

The “Creative Vision” Behind Technological Achievement

As the world celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing, Anne Collins Goodyear, co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, reflects on the role artists have played in paving the way for scientific innovation.

A New Kind of Lab

Virtual Reality Opens Up New Worlds at Bowdoin

As virtual reality continues to open up new experiences for teaching and research, more Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students are using the extraordinary technology.
Finding a Purpose

Accepting, Learning, and Helping

Working with the nonprofit FACES NY, Kiany Probherbs ’21 is spending the summer helping vulnerable populations in his native New York City. He’s one of about a hundred Bowdoin students pursuing funded internships over the break.
Salty Water

Research Team Studies Road Salt Pollution in Maine Lakes

When winter storms batter Maine with snow and ice, municipal trucks across the state head to the roads with salt and sand to try to keep them safe for drivers. But there are environmental side effects.
Strings of History

Embroideries, Facebook, and Virtual Sovereignty: How One Student Is Making History Accessible

Ariana Smith ’21 has a Gibbons grant from Bowdoin this summer to continue researching the history of the Arctic Museum's collections of Inuit embroideries—and to share this past with the people whose ancestors created them.
A Spiritual Heart

The Center for Religious and Spiritual Life Gets an Endowment and a New Name

A gift from Macauley Lord ’77 ensures that Bowdoin will have a permanent, full-time director of religious and spiritual life.
Ice Stories

Telling the Untold Stories of Peary's Arctic Voyages

A new book by two Bowdoin scholars goes beyond one-dimensional retellings of Peary's Arctic treks and instead delves into the lesser-known stories of those who supported him.
Proud Bowdoin

Bowdoin Celebrates Pride Month Across the Country

Bowdoin alumni, students, staff, faculty, and friends gathered in five cities between June 8 and June 30 to celebrate the LGBT community and its many contributions.
Original Fakes

Musical Replay: Bowdoin’s McMullen Explores Tribute Band Phenomenon

In her latest book, "Haunthenticity: Musical Replay and the Fear of the Real," the associate professor of music analyzes the growth and the role of live musical reenactment.
The Best Bilingualism

Figuring out What Works in Bilingual Education

In the past decade, dual-language school programs in Dallas, Texas, have spiked as more people embrace bilingual education. This summer, Lauren Elliott ’20 is researching which programs are most effective for Hispanic students, and why.
A Significant Summer

Learning about Cultural Sovereignty: A Funded Internship with the Association on American Indian Affairs

Amanda Cassano ’22 was awarded a grant from Bowdoin's funded internship program to work for an organization that advocates for Native Americans and Alaska Natives.
Explaining Sports Analytics

Behind the Scoreline

Seth Walder ’11 answers questions about his role on ESPN’s sports analytics team and the increasingly important role of technology in the coverage, analysis, and prediction of sporting events.
Global Opportunities

Bowdoin Offers New Minors in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies

Both disciplines will strengthen language skills and promote regional awareness of an area stretching from Morocco to Iran. They will be available to students in the upcoming 2019 academic year.
Local Politics

Public Service: Funded Interns at the Town Office, City Hall, and City Park

Several students are working in public service in Maine this summer. Two are interning with local governments—one in a rural Maine town, the other in Maine's largest city. A third is working to improve Portland's parks.
A Healthier Maine

With Funded Internships, Students Work with Addiction, Mental Illness, and Aging

Four Bowdoin students are interning in Brunswick and Portland this summer, working with organizations that help addicts, young people with mental illness, and older Mainers.