Academic News
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‘Nature Behind Barbed Wire:’ The Japanese American Incarceration of WWII
December 05, 2018More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into incarceration camps by the US government during the war. In her latest book, history and environmental studies professor Connie Chiang considers the episode from a new perspective. -
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Behind the Willner's Record-breaking $20M Fundraiser
November 29, 2018Charlotte and Dave Willner, from the class of 2006, raised more than $20 million to help reunite separated families at the Mexican-U.S. border. Dave Willner was on campus to tell the story—and talk about how other fundraisers might go viral. -
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National Teaching Honors for Geologist Rachel Beane
November 19, 2018Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Natural Sciences Rachel Beane, winner of this year's Neil Miner Award, says she wouldn't be the teacher she is without the help and support of her colleagues in the Earth and Oceanographic Science Department. -
Amherst’s Stavans on Crypto-Jews: “A People Within a People”
November 14, 2018Ilan Stavans, a leading scholar on Jewish culture in the Hispanic world, shares his thoughts on why many Jews kept their faith a secret for centuries. He also voices concerns over the rise in hate crime in recent years, particularly the increase in anti-Semitic behavior. -
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Lifelong Learning: Bowdoin Extends Its Education to the Community
October 08, 2018This fall, earth and oceanographic science professor Phil Camill is teaching a six-session course, on alternating Monday evenings, about climate change and “weird weather.” The attendees are mostly retired people living in Brunswick and nearby who belong to the Association of Bowdoin Friends. -
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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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Bringing Government to Bowdoin: Former Chief of Staff Talks to NYT’s Katie Benner ’99
September 24, 2018Students, faculty and locals lined up early Thursday evening in the lobby of Pickard Theater to listen to New York Times writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katie Benner ’99 interview President Obama’s fourth and final White House chief of staff, Denis McDonough. -
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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. -
In ‘Nature,’ Bowdoin Scientist Predicts Arctic Peatland’s Warming Impacts
September 20, 2018A team of scientists that includes Bowdoin professor Phil Camill has just released new findings on a question with significant implications for the future of the planet: how will the Earth’s peatlands, particularly the vast stretches in the Arctic, respond to global warming? Will they serve as carbon sinks or carbon sources? -
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. -
National Geographic Society Hires Tracy Wolstencroft ’80, P’15 as CEO
September 19, 2018Tracy Wolstencroft ’80 will take over as president and CEO of National Geographic Society, shepherding the nonprofit into a new era in which it hopes to contribute to a “healthy, more sustainable planet for generations to come.” -
Artist Stephanie Rothenberg Thrilled To Be First Roux Scholar
September 18, 2018Stephanie Rothenberg has a lot to learn, and she’s excited about it. “I’m interested in the Maine coastline, the impact of climate change, and what this is all doing to the livelihood of those who depend on the sea for a living.” She’s sitting behind her desk in Bowdoin’s newest building. -
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Ethics Prize for Obama Honors Bowdoin Grad Paul H. Douglas, Class of 1913
September 13, 2018A US Senator noted for his commitment to fiscal reform and ethics in government, Douglas began his working life as an economics professor at the University of Chicago in 1920, seven years after graduating from Bowdoin. In WW2 he was a decorated Marine, despite being a Quaker. -
Theater Professor Directs Tribute Play to Late Boston ‘Theater Legend’
September 06, 2018Davis Robinson and the “Beau Jest Moving Theatre” are staging “Larry’s Play” in honor of Larry Coen, the charismatic actor/director who died suddenly earlier this year. It was a play Coen himself had been working on when he died, explains Robinson. -
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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. -
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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. -
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The Making of a Greek Language App: Diakritikos
August 06, 2018Demonstrating a fusion of two languages, a scholar and his students are combining computer code with classical Greek to create a language-learning app that will help Classics students practice accentuation—a key dimension of ancient Greek. -
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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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. -
The Staying Power of ABBA: Bowdoin’s McMullen on the ‘Tribute Band Factor’
July 25, 2018Music critics hated them, but that didn’t matter. Four-and-a-half decades after they first came to global prominence, the Swedish supergroup ABBA is proving unstoppable. The music professor is quoted in a Smithsonian.com article on the band’s enduring popularity. -
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Two Seniors — A Filmmaker and a Composer — Collaborate on Short Film
May 24, 2018The film was the result of a year’s worth of work – Nevan Swanson ’18 wrote the script in a screenwriting course in the fall, and shot the film over the course of the year, and the soundtrack of the film became Sam Kyzivat’s senior honors thesis in music composition. -
From Moulton Union to Lincoln Center: Bowdoin Senior Showcases Musical Talent
May 08, 2018Emily Licholai ’18 meets acclaimed American composer Lowell Liebermann after performing one of his pieces for him at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. Accompanying her on piano was Beckwith Artist-in-Residence George Lopez. -
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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. -
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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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."
