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An Environmental Studies Program for a Rapidly Changing World

Bowdoin's Environmental Studies program is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, a milestone galvanizing faculty, staff, and students to reflect on what it means to study and teach the environment at a critical moment.

The Goodyears in Conversation

How Bowdoin College Museum of Art Responded to a Pandemic

The codirectors of Bowdoin College Museum of Art discuss how the pandemic challenged them to reinvent the institution, in this edition of the Bowdoin Presents podcast series.
Xi Under Pressure

Analyzing China’s COVID Protests: Who? Where? Why?

Asian studies and government professor Christopher Heurlin shares his perspective on the current unrest in China sparked by Beijng’s “zero COVID” policy.
Inca Afterlives

The Decline of a Civilization

Scholar of Latin American literature and culture Peter Elmore visits campus to talk about the decline of the Inca empire due to Spanish conquest and how those events have been portrayed throughout history.
Catch a Podcast

The Art of the Archive

History scholar David Gordon discusses his recent archival research in Portugal, which also explored artworks and oral tradition, to examine political transformations in nineteenth-century central Africa.
Bowdoin in the News

Jac Arbour ’07 and "This Little Piggy": Teaching Children about Personal Finances

Jac Arbour ’07 talks about This Little Piggy, a book he wrote to teach children about personal finances, on the WCSH newsmagazine 207.
A Green Milestone

Bowdoin’s Pioneering Mass Timber Project Subject of Case Study

As Barry Mills Hall and the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies near completion, there’s excitement in the industry over the project’s use of a pioneering and sustainable wood product.
Truth and Justice

Linda Kinstler ’13 Emphasizes the Power of the Personal Narrative

Award-winning journalist Linda Kinstler ’13 recently visited Bowdoin to discuss the potential shapes and forms of justice in Ukraine in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.
Bowdoin in the News

Museum of Art’s “Antiquity and America” and How Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Americans of All Races, Classes, and Genders Looked to the Ancient Mediterranean for Inspiration

In an article for The Conversation, Sean Burrus, former Andrew W. Mellow Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Art (2018–2022) and curator of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition Antiquity and America, expands on the intention behind the show and shares insights from his field of expertise in ancient Mediterranean art and culture.
Expanding the Transfer Pipeline

Bowdoin College Joins 20 Colleges and Universities Nationwide in Official Launch of the Transfer Scholars Network

Bowdoin College has partnered with the Transfer Scholars Network, dedicated to expanding community college transfers to the nation’s highly selective colleges and universities.
Bowdoin in the News

A Chef’s Kiss for Bowdoin Dining

Bowdoin Dining is having a moment. On the heels of the always immensely popular Bowdoin Thanksgiving dinner, during and after which there are heaping helpings of praise for the operation, Dining Service is also being lauded in print as FoodService Director magazine’s Foodservice Operation of the Month.
Active Citizens

Bowdoin Gets a Shout-Out for its Student Voting Efforts

The nonpartisan organization Civic Nation is applauding the McKeen Center for the Common Good's work to inspire students to participate in our democracy and vote.
CSI: Coral Scene Investigator

Isaiah Bolden ’15 and His Forensic Approach to Solving a Reef Mystery

Bolden, an oceanographer, returned to campus November 14 to give a talk on his pioneering biogeochemical investigations into the world's imperiled coral reefs.
Kicking Off a New Class

Behind the Beautiful Game

As the world’s biggest sporting tournament gets underway, students from a new course looking at the culture and politics of soccer in Latin America gather to watch the opening match.
Joyous Bounty

A Very Bowdoin Thanksgiving

Before many students leave campus for Thanksgiving break to join family and loved ones for holiday gatherings, they were treated to the feast before the feast, Bowdoin Dining’s annual Thanksgiving spread.