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.

A Family Affair

Lisa Rendall just celebrated her twentieth year working at Bowdoin, and her daughter Stephanie Rendall is halfway through her first.
“A Great Way to Serve”

Alternative Spring Break: Tackling Poverty on Bowdoin's Doorstep

Ten students stick around over the break to explore different aspects of poverty and homelessness in the Brunswick and Portland communities.
"We joke around a lot—"

Happy People Ski Faster

Led by coach Nathan Alsobrook ’97, the Bowdoin Nordic ski team is quirky, competitive, and above all else, fun.
Painting the Town

Galleries, Studios, and Networking: Bowdoin Artists Hit the Big Apple

Art professor Mark Wethli took a group of eight students to New York City for the weekend to enjoy a few artistic offerings from the city that never sleeps—and to meet some alumni working in the fine arts.
To Believe or Not to Believe?

‘Believing But Not Belonging’—Bowdoin Scholar on Decline of Organized Religion, Rise of Secularism

Associate Professor of Religion Elizabeth Pritchard headed to the Portland studios of Maine Public Radio earlier this month to take part in a discussion on secularism.
Soft Ethnography

Stitches in Time

Three scholars from Bowdoin's Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum will travel to Labrador with rare Inuit embroideries, in the hopes of sparking recognition and remembrance from the smallest detail.
Bowdoin Magazine

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.