A Better U.S. Approach to China: A Talk by Susan A. Thornton ’85, P’22
Thursday, April 29
Noon EDT

Susan A. Thornton ’85, P’22 is a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School and senior fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center. In 2018, she retired from the State Department after a twenty-eight-year diplomatic career focused primarily on East and Central Asia. In leadership roles in Washington, Thornton worked on China and Korea policy, including stabilizing relations with Taiwan, the U.S.-China Cyber Agreement, the Paris Climate Accord, and led a successful negotiation in Pyongyang for monitoring of the Agreed Framework on denuclearization.

In her eighteen years of overseas postings in Central Asia, Russia, the Caucasus, and China, Thornton’s leadership furthered U.S. interests and influence and maintained programs and mission morale in a host of difficult operating environments. Thornton holds degrees from the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Bowdoin College where she was an economics and Russian double major. She serves on several non-profit boards and speaks Russian, Mandarin Chinese, and French.

All members of the Bowdoin community are invited to tune in to this program marking Asian Heritage Month and in connection with the 2020/2021 Reunion Talks series. Q&A to follow.

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COVID-19 Presents Opportunity and Challenges for Medical and Life Sciences Experts
Thursday, May 6
Noon EDT

Join medical and life sciences experts for a lively panel discussion about the impacts of the COVID-19 public health crisis on their work. The pandemic has propelled transformative change and innovation in the healthcare landscape. This conversation will explore areas where they’ve experienced significant growth since the start of the pandemic, areas that have required pivoting, as well as setbacks and challenges faced. Topics such as COVID-19 patient outcome data, technology adoption and telehealth, novel strategies for rapid worldwide disseminating of information, and the pandemic’s impact on operational priorities and strategic directions, will be examined through a series of short talks and moderated conversation before opening it up to audience Q&A.

The event will highlight perspectives of several members of the Class of 1976: Michele Cyr ’76, P’12, senior associate dean for Academic Affairs at Brown University Alpert Medical School; Alison Brent ’76, medical director, Network of Care & Physician Relations at Children’s Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado School of Medicine; Michael Fiore ’76, P’09, University of Wisconsin Hilldale Professor of Medicine and director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) and member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) COVID-19 research team; and Shaun Gilmore ’76, chief transformation officer at the American Red Cross.

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A Conversation on the Earliest Images of the Bowdoin Campus with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Maine State Historian Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. H’08 offers a presentation about the College in the nineteenth century. After Shettleworth’s remarks, he and John Cross ’76, secretary of development and college relations, join in a Q&A moderated by the Museum’s codirectors, Frank Goodyear and Anne Collins Goodyear. This program was presented in conjunction with “Maine’s Lithographic Landscapes: Town & City Views, 1830-1870,” an exhibition curated by Shettleworth that opened at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art last December.

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