News

Almost Two Dozen Students and Alumni Offered Fulbright Awards

Bowdoin students and recent graduates have been offered Fulbrights to teach English or conduct research abroad next year in countries spanning the globe.

Developing Racial Stamina

Anti-Racism Initiatives Engage Students in Difficult Conversations

A variety of conversations are underway across campus as students tackle issues like race, power, and privilege. They are learning that becoming an anti-racist takes effort.
President's Summer Research Symposium

Celebrating Student Research

The annual President's Summer Research Symposium—which showcases student's academic projects in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and community service—was held online this year.
On Campus Far From Home

International Students Navigate a New Campus

Among the relatively small group of sophomores, juniors, and seniors living on campus this semester, thirty-four are international students.
Web of Civic Responsibility

Bowdoin Gets Out the Vote Through Big Community Effort

This election season, Bowdoin doesn't just have its typical handful of students working to encourage a big student turnout at the polls, it has dozens.
Inside Theater and Dance

Online Teaching: The Importance of Performing

Making Dances in the Digital Age and Performing Freedom are two of the courses offered by theater and dance faculty this semester. Like most classes right now, these are being taught remotely—but that is no barrier to creativity.
A Class for Our Times

Online Teaching: Government Class Tracks the Elections

Government professor Michael Franz’s course Campaigns and Elections takes a detailed look at this year’s legislative and presidential elections, which involves keeping up with an often hectic news cycle.
Digital Treasure Trove

A Teaching Museum Steps Up Its Tech Game to Bring Art to Students

Since spring, staff at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art have been generating a trove of high-quality (and, when possible, 3D) digital replicas of objects to support online teaching. At the same time, they are forging an alternative way to visit the Museum.
Connected in Conversations

Virtual Group Offerings for Polar Bears Near and Far

Being online is a lot different than feeling connected. These virtual groups and activities are creating ways for students to connect over shared experiences, new languages, and meaningful conversations.
International perspectives

"The 1619 Project": History Professors Draw Comparisons to the US from Around the World

In the third of four online events organized this fall by the Bowdoin history department to discuss The New York Times Magazine's "The 1619 Project," professors Rachel Sturman and Page Herrlinger offered insights based on their international expertise.
Maps into History

Online Teaching: GIS Opens Up New Frontiers for Students of American History

A historian and a geographer have teamed up this semester to teach a new class for Bowdoin, one that has students investigating questions about nineteenth-century US history with the aid of GIS and maps.
Bowdoin in the News

One-on-One with President Rose in Portland Press Herald's "Like a Boss" Series

President Clayton Rose was the featured guest in the Portland Press Herald's live Q&A series, "Like a Boss," during which he talked about everything from the return to campus this fall and COVID-19 testing, to his work in the area of racial equity and his path to Bowdoin.
Challenging Power Structures

Distribution Requirement Being Updated to Move from Awareness to Engagement

Bowdoin has introduced plans to update one of its distribution requirements to better help students understand and analyze structures of privilege and inequality.
Public Health Service

Brandon Lee ’21 Enrolls in Nationwide COVID-19 Vaccine Trial

Brandon Lee ’21 is participating in a late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trial run by the biotech company Moderna. He's also volunteering as a contact tracer in Michigan.
Brainy Solutions

Online Teaching: Neuroscience at Home

Despite not having a lab to work in this semester, students in Manuel Díaz-Ríos's introductory neuroscience class are conducting experiments wherever they are with their own do-it-yourself (DIY) kits.