Educating the Next Generation of Leaders

Sustainability Across the Curriculum

The academic program represents the core mission of the College. Bowdoin faculty, staff, and students are deeply engaged in climate and sustainability issues, and the College curriculum and support for research and programming are essential components of Bowdoin’s 2042 Climate Action Plan. Educating the next generation of leaders about climate change is fundamental to the College’s purpose—and a liberal arts education is uniquely suited to the challenges of understanding climate change and addressing sustainability. With intentional facilitation of synergistic cross-campus action, the College’s academic mission can be integrated with its effort to address climate change over the next 10 years to achieve the following academic goals:

1. Raise visibility of our existing climate and sustainability curriculum, scholarship, events and action on campus.
2. Facilitate curriculum development on climate and sustainability topics.
3. Facilitate interdisciplinary research and outreach on climate and sustainability issues.
4. Facilitate data availability in digestible form.

Read more about the academic support for Bowdoin's climate action plan here.

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  Faculty Awards Boost Research and Teaching of the Environment from Different Perspectives 

  Five scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, and STEM subjects have been awarded prestigious federal grants in recent months to help them pursue a range of projects and activities, all related in different ways to environmental issues.
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  Inaugural Lecture of the Theodore Samuel Danzig ’22 Memorial Fund

  A fellowship fund honoring the legacy of Theo Danzig, a member of the Class of 2022 who died in late October 2021, held its inaugural lecture February 15, 2024, in Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union.
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  Bowdoin Tops Fulbright List for Fourth Year in a Row

  For the 2023–2024 Fulbright year, Bowdoin was number one in the category of bachelor’s institutions, a ranking it has maintained since the 2020–2021 academic year. From 2017 to 2020, it ranked second highest.