Academic News
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Public Service Initiative Heads to Washington, DC, for the Second Year
April 10, 2019Students headed to Washington, DC, over the spring break on the second Bowdoin Public Service Initiative. The program is designed to provide students with the opportunity to delve into topics around government and public policy work. -
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International Student Spotlight: Mishal Kazmi ’21
October 31, 2018"I think there are some things everyone takes for granted about the place they grew up in until they're far away from it. It feels like I'm a part of two very different worlds, and there's little chance they'll ever completely meet." -
Six Women Scientists Receive Prestigious External Grants in Spring Semester
October 25, 2018Sizable grants were awarded to pursue research in the areas of biology, chemistry, oceanography, neuroscience, and anthropology. Dean for Academic Affairs Elizabeth McCormack said it’s been a banner year for the College. -
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Senior’s Healthcare Research Begins in Maine, Moves to Rwanda
October 10, 2018Darlene Ineza continues to investigate marginalized patients’ access to healthcare. But she has shifted her focus from Maine to her home country, which, almost a quarter century later, is still recovering from the trauma of its civil war and genocide. -
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One Year Later, Nature Moments Video Series Calls It a Day
October 01, 2018After twelve months, the weekly Nature Moments video series is calling it a day. In this final installment, biology professor Nat Wheelwright looks back and thanks the team of writers and technicians at Bowdoin College who helped him produce the series. -
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Nat Wheelwright on Maine Calling as Nature Moments Series Approaches End
September 21, 2018Wheelwright was joined on the radio by fellow biologist Patty Jones, director of the Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island. Jones recently featured on Nature Moments, where she talked about the pollination habits of bees. -
Julian Garrison ’19 Studies a Destructive Marsh Grass
September 20, 2018This summer, Julian Garrison ’19 began tackling the complex question about how two environmental conditions are facilitating the invasive plant’s growth. The more we understand about Phragmites’ invasion ecology, Garrison explains, the better equipped we will be to stop its destructive takeovers. -
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2018: A Busy Summer at Bowdoin College
September 12, 2018The summer months are a time for many of us to recharge the batteries, but it doesn’t mean life at Bowdoin grinds to a halt. The campus may be quieter than usual, but there has been no shortage of activity—academic and otherwise—among the Bowdoin community since the school year ended. -
Bowdoin Alumni and Students Jump into the Future of Fishing
September 12, 2018As the field continues to develop and grow, more Bowdoin students and alumni are getting involved, attracted both to the promise of innovative jobs or research, and to doing work that has tangible environmental and social benefits. -
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Bowdoin Historian Highlights Maine’s Debt to Slavery
August 28, 2018In two years, Maine will turn two-hundred years old. Amid the birthday celebrations, Bowdoin’s Brian Purnell, an associate professor of history and Africana studies, asks that we consider the state’s indebtedness to slavery for its origins. -
Jake Stenquist '19: A Scholar, Athlete, Marine, and Rock Drummer
August 27, 2018On May 26, 2018, when most of the Bowdoin community was celebrating the College’s 213th Commencement, rising senior Jake Stenquist was on his way to Marine Officer Candidates School (OCS) at Marine Base Quantico, Virginia, for six weeks of “organized chaos.” -
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Bowdoin Faculty Receive National Humanities Grant for Holocaust Education Seminar
August 16, 2018The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Bowdoin College nearly $90,000 to offer a seminar next summer for sixteen middle and high school teachers, from across the U.S., on using art objects to enrich their lessons about the Holocaust. -
Introducing the Geoffrey Canada Scholars
August 06, 2018The Geoffrey Canada Scholars program is just one piece of THRIVE, a new initiative funded by Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings ’83, to transform the Bowdoin experience for students who are the first in their families to go to college, who come from low-income backgrounds, or who are from groups traditionally underrepresented at the College. -
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Now Showing: ‘The Heath Hen’ and Other Early Ornithological Films of Alfred Otto Gross
August 03, 2018Rare films documenting ornithological research done in the late 1920s and early 1930s by Bowdoin professor of biology Alfred Otto Gross, including previously unknown footage of the last surviving heath hen, have now been preserved, digitized, and published online thanks to support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. -
The Heath Hen and Other Early Ornithological Films of Alfred Otto Gross
August 03, 2018Rare films documenting ornithological research done in the late 1920s and early 1930s by Bowdoin professor of biology Alfred Otto Gross, including previously unknown footage of the last surviving heath hen, have now been preserved, digitized, and published online thanks to support from the National Film Preservation Foundation -
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Mellon Mays Fellows at Bowdoin Begin Journey to Graduate School
July 30, 2018Each summer, Bowdoin hosts an intensive research program for Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research fellows. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation established its undergraduate fellowship program in 1989 to encourage minority faculty in higher education. Bowdoin set up its Mellon program three years later. -
Bowdoin Alumni and Students Jump into the Future of Fishing
July 30, 2018As the field continues to develop and grow, more Bowdoin students and alumni are getting involved, attracted both to the promise of innovative jobs or research, and to doing work that has tangible environmental and social benefits. -
Reappraising Ovid: Professor Boyd Examines the Roman Poet’s Relationship with Homeric Tradition
July 27, 2018She aims to shed fresh light on the literary connections between Ovid and Homer, who lived nearly a thousand years before the Roman poet, and who may well have been several different people! -
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Godzilla: More Than Just a Giant, Angry Lizard
July 27, 2018Godzilla represents a number of things, says Asian studies professor Chris Born, but is commonly associated with the ongoing concern in Japan, and elsewhere, over nuclear contamination. Born has organized an academic symposium to examine the continuing relevance of the ‘Godzilla’ franchise. -
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Common Good Symposium Showcases a “Little Bit of Everything”
May 30, 2018A wealth of projects and programs were showcased at the McKeen Center’s Spring Symposium, Bowdoin and the Common Good, on May 10, 2018. Posters, presentations, photographs, and video were on display in the Morrell Lounge of the Smith Union, representing more than sixty examples of Bowdoin’s commitment to the wider community. -
Student Podcasts Examine Sports Diplomacy, Other Issues, in Korea Studies Course
May 25, 2018Distinguished Lecturer in Government Bradley Babson gave his students considerable leeway when it came to their end-of-year project for his course The Two Koreas and Geopolitics of Northeast Asia (ASNA 2872/GOV 2550). -
Keeping Black Kids Safe: Preventing Violence in Chicago Schools
May 22, 2018"I realized after being at Bowdoin that a lot of the experiences I've had are not discussed, or represented, or even recognized on campus," LaShanda Harbin ’18 said. She and her grandmother, who helped raise her, live in Englewood, on the South Side of Chicago. "So I decided to write about it." -
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Language Tables: An Informal Way to Practice Linguistic Skills
May 11, 2018If you walk into one of the smaller dining rooms in Thorne Hall at dinner time, there's a good chance you'll hear a language other than English being spoken. Several times a week, different departments typically sponsor a "language table" at which students get the chance to practice their linguistic skills in an informal setting. -
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Mohamed Nur ’19 Wins Truman Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Public Service
April 18, 2018“I have seen people who have worked so tirelessly for other people. I have seen their impact on other people’s lives, and the kind of good that can do. This is what I want to spend the rest of my life doing,” Mohamed Nur ’19 -
Robert Morrison Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship to Study Islamic Influence on the Renaissance
April 10, 2018Religion professor says a network of Jewish scholars played a key part in transporting scientific ideas from the Islamic world to Renaissance Europe. The pioneering astronomer Copernicus, for example, owes a significant debt to mathematical theories developed in the Ottoman Empire, says newly appointed Guggenheim Fellow Morrison. -
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Far and Wide: Student Excursions Over the Spring Break
March 22, 2018From Sicily to Silicon Valley, from the Big Apple to the Big Easy, students traveled broadly over spring break on a variety of trips, some of them academic in nature, some cultural, and some service-oriented, but all aimed at enhancing their experience beyond the classroom. -
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Bowdoin Scientist Discovering New Ways to Make Breakthrough Medicines
March 05, 2018Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Benjamin Gorske has won one of the National Science Foundation’s most distinguished research awards, the CAREER grant, given to faculty relatively early in their careers. -
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Book on Dinosaur Art by Zoë Lescaze ’12 Impresses Reviewers
December 07, 2017In its review of “Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past,” the New York Times calls the volume “gorgeous,” and points out that while it is focused on ancient species long gone, the artists’ attempts at visualizations of dinosaurs are more relevant than ever as we grapple with the looming threats of climate change. -
Bowdoin STEM Students Present, and Get Inspired, at Diversity Conference
November 07, 2017Three students from Bowdoin — Jorge Gómez ’18, Louis Mendez ’19, and Cindy Rivera ’18 — recently presented their research at The National Diversity in STEM conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, which is hosted by the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). -
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To Take or Not to Take? Class of 2021 Attends Academic Fair
August 28, 2017First-years crowded into Morrell Gymasium August 28, 2017 for the annual academic fair. Faced with dozens of booths manned by faculty members, the class of 2021 had to start thinking about what, for some, is a difficult decision: which classes to take. -
Professor Purnell Looks at NYC's Racist Past (Washington Post)
August 24, 2017Racial injustice has left its mark on every region and state across the nation, and this history cannot be confronted and dismantled simply by taking down sculptures, argues Brian Purnell, who is Bowdoin's Geoffrey Canada associate professor of Africana studies and history. -
Bowdoin’s Danahy Mentors US International Chemistry Olympiad Team Archives
June 29, 2017Bowdoin College chemistry lecturer Michael Danahy described the four high school students chosen to represent the US in this year’s International Chemistry Olympiad as “one of the strongest groups we have seen,” reports Chemical and Engineering News. -
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'Maine Calling' Broadcasts Bowdoin Environment Expertise to the Masses
April 24, 2017The environment, how it's studied at Bowdoin and how Maine is a living laboratory for that endeavor were aspects of a conversation originating on campus and shared with listeners statewide on Maine Public Radio's interactive call-in program Maine Calling Friday, April 21, 2017. -
Daniel Castro Bonilla ’17 Wins Critical Language Scholarship
April 10, 2017Senior Daniel Castro Bonilla has won a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Chinese at the Northeast Normal University in Changchun, China, this summer. Bonilla, an Asian studies major, began to study Chinese in his first year at Bowdoin. -
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Alex Reed '10 on Policing the Police
March 14, 2017Alex Reed '10 is in her final year at University of Michigan Law School. She spent last summer as a legal intern with a unit of the US Department of Justice, where she had the opportunity to work with experienced civil rights attorneys on investigations into police misconduct. -
Bowdoin's LaVigne Named Frontiers of Science Fellow
March 07, 2017When Assistant Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science Michèle LaVigne travels to an academic conference, like most scholars she typically finds herself surrounded by fellow experts in her field: in this case deep sea oceanography. -
To End Black History Month, Prof. Vete-Congolo Discusses African History in the 'New World'
March 06, 2017For the final installment of Black History Month, Howell House hosted Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Hanetha Vete-Congolo to discuss the representation of African history in the “so-called” New World. -
New Public Health Course Meets Rising Student Demand
February 28, 2017Responding to increasing interest in public health by students—who see it as a potential career, a way to practice the common good, and/or an interesting field of study—Bowdoin is offering a new course this semester called Public Health and the Liberal Arts. -
Bowdoin Senior Follows 63-year-old Art History Trail to Hiroshima
February 03, 2017The four artists are all elderly now, all still living in Hiroshima. Last summer, a Bowdoin student visited them to talk about drawings they had made as children six decades before in 1953 — about eight years after the US dropped nuclear bombs on their city. -
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Her House, Her Novel: The Most Common Questions
September 29, 2016Cathi Belcher, the docent of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, has begun holding monthly “Tea with Harriet” events, inviting visitors into the newly opened home to see where Stowe wrote her famous anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Belcher has answered some of visitors’ most frequently asked questions. -
Storied Stowe House: Katie Randall ’16 on Finding Passions at Bowdoin and in Its History
August 04, 2016Katie Randall ’16, whose research into the College’s Harriet Beecher Stowe House led to its inclusion in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom by the National Park Service, writes of the findings—both historical and personal—she discovered along the way. -
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Professor and Students Alike Changed by Summer Study in China
November 16, 2004Sometime during the spring of 2004, Bowdoin Associate Professor of Asian Studies Shuqin Cui put down her books on Chinese popular culture and addressed her class: "Why read books?" she said, smiling. "We should go to China."
