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.

Getting Creative

Fall 2020: How to Achieve Continuity in Teaching and Learning

Part one in a series: With the fall 2020 semester due to happen primarily online, Bowdoin outlines how it plans to engage students in a new learning model that emphasizes the defining aspects of a Bowdoin education.
Researching Remotely

Summer Fellow Alex Withers ’21 Helps Developmentally Challenged Engage with Technology

Withers is one of more than 160 students pursuing fellowships over the summer. With the help of a Riley Research Award from the anthropology department, he is looking at how certain populations interact with technology.
Fresh Food for All

Joining Grassroots Effort, Olivia Groell ’22 Helps Deliver Farm Surplus to Food Pantries

Olivia Groell ’22 is part of a quickly growing start-up that is providing food pantries around the country with millions of pounds of farm produce.
A History Lesson

How Did the President Get So Powerful?

Government professor Andrew Rudalevige is featured on NPR’s Throughline podcast talking about US presidential power. How did the power of the President end up exceeding anything the Founding Fathers planned? he asks.
A Virtual Book Reading

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

Award-winning children’s author and illustrator Charlotte Agell ’81 shares some of her work with the Bowdoin community in a virtual book reading via Zoom.
Giving Context

Scanlon’s Hedgeman Biography among Most Relevant Texts in Current Crisis, Says OUP

Professor Jen Scanlon’s 2016 biography of the unsung female civil rights activist Anna Arnold Hedgeman has been recommended by Oxford University Press as one of the books that best give context to current protests.
"A Telling Reminder"

Bowdoin's Patrick Rael Reflects on the Enduring Importance of Juneteenth

Professor of History Patrick Rael shares his reflections on Juneteenth during a critical moment of racial reckoning for the nation.
Through Fear to Empathy

Dr. Lee Rowe '50 on the Path to Healing

“The future of humanity is held in the hands of those who are willing to learn with empathy for all people.”
Staying Grounded

Why We Run

Running has various advantages and meanings for individuals, especially in the midst of a pandemic that has much of the country homebound. Now more than ever, we ask: Why run—and why run now?
Three Stories of Stories

The Strange Tale of Searles Hall

A robber baron, a widow, and a bruising court battle all led to the unlikely naming of Bowdoin’s most eccentric building.
Prepare and Protect

Finding Our Way

In the early days of COVID-19, Bowdoin alumni in Maine were planning, preparing, and getting in place to tackle not just the virus—but the effects it would have on Maine’s industry, children and families, and our most vulnerable populations.
Beyond Bowdoin

Successes in a Hard Economy: Class of 2020 Job Outcomes

Though they are graduating into a recession, more than 40 percent of students in the Class of 2020 reported finding employment by June 5. Many others are using grants from the College to pursue short-term opportunities to build their skills and résumés.
Behind the Screens

Zoom, Zoom!

There are Bowdoin-themed image backgrounds you can use on Zoom—and then there’s real Bowdoin background at Zoom.
A Monumental Issue

Penn State’s Joy Giguere ’03 Shares Her Thoughts on “Commemorative Culture”

History professor Giguere’s research looks at “commemorative culture,” including the controversial issue of Confederate monuments. History is normally written by the victors, she says, but NOT in the case of the US Civil War.