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.

Paws On

In the Field: Tagging Bear Cubs in Northern Maine

Students in Patty’s Jones’ BIOL 3308/ENVS3308 course, Research in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, traveled to the northern part of the state to meet with bear biologists from Maine Inland Fish & Wildlife.
Research Recognition

Kris Klein Hernandez ’12 Wins Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

Kris Klein Hernandez ’12, a fifth-year doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan and a summer faculty instructor for Bowdoin's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program, has received a prestigious fellowship.
Future-Facing

An Ambitious Mission

Former psychology major Joe Adu ’07 takes a human approach to technology.
In the Field

Say Neigh

Mobile equine dentist Carrie Niederman ’82 covers a lot of ground around Houston, Texas, tasked with the important work of keeping horses healthy, starting with their mouths.
Pathfinder

Numbers Guy

Robert Packard ’58, emeritus math professor at Northern Arizona University, is an accomplished international mountain climber and former record-setting master’s runner.
Q&A

Higher Ed in Flux

Professor of Education Charles Dorn argues that we can’t understand what’s going on with colleges and universities today until we examine their history, and how society has viewed, them over the course of time.
Get to Know

A Family Affair

Lisa Rendall just celebrated her twentieth year working at Bowdoin, and her daughter Stephanie Rendall is halfway through her first.
Nice Spice

Cranberry-Orange Pancakes

Recipe by Lauren Chattman ’83
A Holistic Approach

Alternative Spring Break: Tackling Poverty in Midcoast Maine

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.