News

Critical Elements: What Do Young Scientists Need to Succeed?

Each January, Bowdoin's THRIVE program offers first-year students interested in the STEM fields a two-week program to gain the research and study skills needed to advance in a number of scientific disciplines.

Renewable Recognition

Bowdoin Receives Award for Becoming Carbon Neutral

Bowdoin is applauded for its ambitious pursuit of carbon neutrality, a goal it initially set out to reach by 2020.
Artful Reactions

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.
Straight to the Source

From Their View: First-Generation College Students on Bowdoin

As part of an ongoing student-speaker series, several students who are the first in their family to go to college spoke about their experiences at Bowdoin.
#books #cake

The Library Throws a Party for Bowdoin Readers

For a decade, Bowdoin staff, faculty, and students have been sharing what they're reading with the community on a popular library blog called Bowdoin Reads.
Four Who Inspire

Bowdoin College Announces 2019 Honorary Degree Recipients

Bowdoin will bestow four honorary degrees at its 214th Commencement exercises to be held Saturday, May 25, 2019.
Newly Appointed

College Announces Three Tenured Professors

Two Bowdoin professors are promoted to tenured positions, while a third scholar, currently at University of Puerto Rico, prepares to take up a tenured appointment.
New Leadership

Robert F. White ’77, P’15 Named Chair of the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees

A first-generation college student who attended Bowdoin on financial aid, White went on to help found and manage one of the world’s leading investment firms and to oversee two presidential election campaigns before joining the Harvard faculty.
Nature for All

Where is Everyone? Addressing a Glaring Disparity in the Outdoors

Writer and cultural geographer Carolyn Finney visited Bowdoin to discuss why people of color have historically been overlooked by the outdoors industry and the environmental movement—and how to change this.
Recently Published

The ‘Strangely Mesmerizing’ New Novel from International Best-Seller Douglas Kennedy ‘76

Kennedy’s latest offering, The Great Wide Open, “reads like an old friend recounting a tale over dinner,” writes novelist Ian Sansom in The New Statesman.