News

Almost Two Dozen Students and Alumni Offered Fulbright Awards

Bowdoin students and recent graduates have been offered Fulbrights to teach English or conduct research abroad next year in countries spanning the globe.

Web of Civic Responsibility

Bowdoin Gets Out the Vote Through Big Community Effort

This election season, Bowdoin doesn't just have its typical handful of students working to encourage a big student turnout at the polls, it has dozens.
Inside Theater and Dance

Online Teaching: The Importance of Performing

Making Dances in the Digital Age and Performing Freedom are two of the courses offered by theater and dance faculty this semester. Like most classes right now, these are being taught remotely—but that is no barrier to creativity.
A Class for Our Times

Online Teaching: Government Class Tracks the Elections

Government professor Michael Franz’s course Campaigns and Elections takes a detailed look at this year’s legislative and presidential elections, which involves keeping up with an often hectic news cycle.
Connected in Conversations

Virtual Group Offerings for Polar Bears Near and Far

Being online is a lot different than feeling connected. These virtual groups and activities are creating ways for students to connect over shared experiences, new languages, and meaningful conversations.
International perspectives

"The 1619 Project": History Professors Draw Comparisons to the US from Around the World

In the third of four online events organized this fall by the Bowdoin history department to discuss The New York Times Magazine's "The 1619 Project," professors Rachel Sturman and Page Herrlinger offered insights based on their international expertise.
Maps into History

Online Teaching: GIS Opens Up New Frontiers for Students of American History

A historian and a geographer have teamed up this semester to teach a new class for Bowdoin, one that has students investigating questions about nineteenth-century US history with the aid of GIS and maps.
Bowdoin in the News

One-on-One with President Rose in Portland Press Herald's "Like a Boss" Series

President Clayton Rose was the featured guest in the Portland Press Herald's live Q&A series, "Like a Boss," during which he talked about everything from the return to campus this fall and COVID-19 testing, to his work in the area of racial equity and his path to Bowdoin.
Challenging Power Structures

Distribution Requirement Being Updated to Move from Awareness to Engagement

Bowdoin has introduced plans to update one of its distribution requirements to better help students understand and analyze structures of privilege and inequality.
Public Health Service

Brandon Lee ’21 Enrolls in Nationwide COVID-19 Vaccine Trial

Brandon Lee ’21 is participating in a late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trial run by the biotech company Moderna. He's also volunteering as a contact tracer in Michigan.
Brainy Solutions

Online Teaching: Neuroscience at Home

Despite not having a lab to work in this semester, students in Manuel Díaz-Ríos's introductory neuroscience class are conducting experiments wherever they are with their own do-it-yourself (DIY) kits.
“Bodies on the Line”

1619 Project: History Professors Discuss Healthcare, the Penal System, and Racism

In the second of four public forums in which Bowdoin historians analyze The New York Times Magazine initiative "The 1619 Project," three professors looked at the issue of inequity in the US prison and healthcare systems.
Living Texts

Online Teaching: The Epics of South and Southeast Asia

Students in Christine Marrewa-Karwoski's Asian studies and religion class Epics Across Oceans are studying two beloved age-old tales this semester. But they're not just reading them—they're capitalizing on the online nature of the course to explore the works in the more modern forms of graphic novels, podcasts, and TV series.
A Public Servant Speaks

Former Attorney General Eric Holder Covers Multiple Issues in Webinar

Systemic racism, police accountability, the Supreme Court, congressional oversight, and, of course, the upcoming election. These were some of the subjects tackled by former AG Eric Holder in a recent town hall.
Bowdoin in the News

Bowdoin Expertise Highlighted in National Media

Bowdoin and its faculty, staff, and students have attracted the attention of the national media recently on topics ranging from politics and history to the ways in which the College is handling the pandemic.