News

A First-Year Artist Transforms the Periodic Table

Julie Hu ’22 has created an extraordinary periodic table that conveys the uses and history of the 118 elements.

Each Day Anew

Professor Fritz Koelln, an intellectual whirlwind and deeply kind soul, imparted more than a life’s worth of lessons to his student and friend Neill Reilly ’71.
For Scholarly Achievement

Twelve More Seniors Nominated for Phi Beta Kappa Membership

The members of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Maine, have nominated twelve seniors for membership. They join the thirteen who were nominated back in the fall.
Chemistry for the Common Good

Tracking Sewage to Protect the Environment

David Griffith ’00 is a chemist who studies the fate of wastewater chemicals in our environment.
"Your Roots are Real"

Destination Uwajimaya

Denise Moriguchi ’98, president and CEO of Seattle’s famous Uwajimaya, balances a remarkable history with necessary change.
Remix, Reinterpret

Women's Cabaret Reclaims Sexist Songs

By performing pop, jazz, and theater songs with sexist lyrics, the Bowdoin Women's Cabaret breathes new interpretations—and also a fair amount of comedy—into retrograde tunes.
Hosts of Friends

Women's Basketball Visits GW Carver Elementary on National Championship Trip to Salem

Never before seen in nature: Polar Bears battle Eagles in intense dodgeball matchup!
Green Icebergs and Iron?

Collin Roesler Gets Closer to Solving Mystery of Green Icebergs

A hint: It's a mix of yellow and blue.
A Surprising Celebration of Sexuality

'Virgin Whore’ Reveals a Provocative Virgin Mary

In her latest book, English professor Maggie Solberg discusses how late medieval portrayals of the Virgin Mary stress her sexuality—quite different from the pure and chaste versions that emerged after the Reformation.
Gothic Horror Meets Bioethics

What the Frankenstein Ballet Can Teach Us about Disability Studies

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson reads a new Frankenstein ballet as a “cautionary tale” about the mistreatment by society of people with disabilities.