News

Reed Hastings ’83 Makes $120 Million Gift to Historically Black Colleges and Education Fund

Reed Hastings ’83 and his wife, Patty Quillin, will donate $120 million to Morehouse and Spelman Colleges—two historically black colleges in Atlanta, Georgia—and to the United Negro College Fund.

West Coast Culture

Kyubin Kim ’22 Interns for LA Review of Books

English major Kyubin Kim ’22 was drawn to the Los Angeles Review of Books for its mission to enrich the arts, especially on the West Coast.
Inside the Ballot Box

When Math Meets Politics

Two summer fellows, both rising juniors, are using their math skills to explore Maine voter behavior. Gillian King is digitizing state voting records, while Jack Olcott is looking at factors affecting voting patterns.
What Are the Limits?

Presidential Power in the Pandemic

Government professor Andrew Rudalevige delves into US political history as he analyzes President Donald Trump’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
AirCar for Human Passengers

Soaring on the First Autonomous Electric Flying Car

Zeynep Tuna ’22 has a funded internship to help a company build Turkey's first flying car.
Banking for Food

Brian Ou and a Maine Credit Union that Supports Farmers

An encounter with the founder of the Maine Harvest Federal Credit Union last fall led to an internship for Brian Ou ’23 this summer.
Visualizing the Holocaust

Bowdoin Educators Receive NEH Grant to Hold Holocaust Education Seminar

History professor Page Herrlinger and art history research associate Natasha Goldman secure a six-figure federal grant to offer a seminar next summer for school teachers on “Teaching the Holocaust through Visual Culture.”
Repurposing Treatments

Bowdoin Students Reach for New Cancer Cures

With summertime grants from Bowdoin Career Exploration and Development, Lailoo Perriello ’22 and Eva Verzani ’21 are interning for Reboot Rx, a nonprofit cofounded by a Bowdoin alumna to develop new uses for existing generic drugs.
Finding Features

Internship Enables Aspiring Journalist Emma Sorkin '22 to Gain Valuable Experience

The history and Hispanic studies double major enjoys a summer internship on the features desk of the Portland Press Herald. She’s one of 102 students receiving awards through CXD, enabling them to pursue unpaid summer internships.
Remote Research

Casey Chertavian ’21 Investigates Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children

When a much-anticipated internship at a molecular biology lab at Harvard became impossible due to the pandemic, Casey Chertavian ’22 found an equally fascinating opportunity with a researcher of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Democracy Advancement

Caring for a Small Planet: Aoguzi Muhameiti ’23 Interns for an Instigator of Global Change

This summer, Aoguzi Muhameiti is working for Frances Moore Lappé, the author of Diet for a Small Planet and eighteen other books about world hunger, democracy, and the environment.
Lobsters and More

Summer Intern Works with Coastal Fisheries

Alexis Mullen '23 is spending the summer in the coastal Maine fishing community of Stonington. An interest in oceanography and fisheries prompted her to pursue an internship with the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries.
Many Voices

Bowdoin Dialogues about Race

Despite the pandemic keeping people socially distant, Bowdoin students, staff, faculty, and alumni are coming together to talk about racism and anti-racism.
A Remote Experience

Learning and Helping: A Summer Internship with Harlem Children’s Zone

Rising junior Angelica Peña spends the summer working remotely for Harlem Children’s Zone, as the nonprofit readjusts during the pandemic to continue providing educational and other support to underprivileged populations.
A Changing College

Senior Investigates Bowdoin's Transition to Coeducation from Men's Point of View

Forty-nine years after Bowdoin opened its doors to women, in 1971, anthropology major Emma Kellogg ’20 analyzed the reactions of male students to this remarkable moment in the College's history.