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Bowdoin’s Patrick Rael: ‘Lincoln’s Unfinished Work’
Patrick Rael Associate Professor of History Patrick Rael, who writes and teaches about the history of the Civil War in film, shares his insights about Steven Spielberg’s recent film Lincoln in his...
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Bowdoin Students Publish in New Undergraduate Peer-Reviewed Journal
Craig McEwen with Jordan Payne '12 (left) and Ally Kuriloff '12 (right) at Commencement.Three Bowdoin students have had their research published in the first volume of a new peer-reviewed journal of...
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Slideshow: Students Go Deep into the Woods with Bio Class
For one day this fall, students in Prof. Vladimir Douhovnikoff’s Forest Ecology and Conservation class departed from their normal campus routines of lectures, seminars and labs to tour a working tree...
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Slideshow: Student Art Curators Offer Insight into Michelangelo’s Enduring...
Art History professor Susan Wegner, James Miller ’14, Ursula Moreno-VanderLaan ’13 and Sarah Haimes ’15 with their exhibition, "Michelangelo: Art and Afterlife"At the end of the fall semester, the...
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Show Encompasses Career of Artist Dorothy Schwartz H’04 (Portland Press Herald)
An upcoming exhibition at the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland will display 40 or so prints by Dorothy Schwartz, spanning five decades of the 74-year-old artist’s career. The show, “Dorothy Schwartz:...
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History Professor Patrick Rael on Two New Films About Slavery
Patrick RaelThe two films — Lincoln, directed by Steven Speilberg, and Django Unchained, by Quentin Tarantino — have sparked a lot of commentary and argument from scholars, filmmakers and critics...
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Two Upcoming Events Honor MLK’s Enduring Message
By a rare quirk of the calendar, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year falls on the first day of second-semester classes, giving Bowdoin a chance to include students in its celebration of King’s life...
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Bowdoin Political Scientists on Obama’s First Term and What’s Next
We asked two scholars in Bowdoin’s Government Department to assess President Obama’s first term and to speculate about what might happen during his second. They delved into topics ranging from the...
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Video: Prof. Kohorn on Brussels Sprouts, His Scientific Research and A Life...
Bruce Kohorn delivers the Linnean Inaugural Lecture, Nov. 27, 2012At the end of last semester, Bruce Kohorn, Bowdoin’s Linnean Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, delivered the Linnean Professorship...
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Barry Mills: Faculty Lectures Now on the BDS
Next month, the Bowdoin Daily Sun will be three years old. With 4,000 daily subscribers and more than 8,000 distinct visitors to the site each week, the BDS is clearly a popular and effective way to...
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Watch Live: Common Hour with Professor Collin Roesler at 12:30 p.m.
Collin Roesler deploys a sensor that will aid in satellite imagery of ocean pigment. Associate Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science Collin Roesler brings her passion for understanding ocean...
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Prof. Conly’s New Book ‘Novel’ and ‘Provocative’ (New York Review of Books)
Sarah Conly, a recently tenured professor in Bowdoin’s philosophy department, has published a new book on paternalism, and The New York Review of Books is crediting it with filling a philosophical void.
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Becker Print Exhibition Stirs Memories for Arts Writer (Yankee Magazine)
Edouard Manet, French, 1832–1883 Civil War (Scene from the Paris Commune), 1871–1873 lithograph Gift of David P. Becker, Class of 1970 1994.10.273Ed Beem, a Maine-based arts writer, meditates on the...
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Multimedia: Ying Quartet Leaves Lingering Notes on Campus
Left to tight: Janet Ying (violin), Ayano Ninomiya (violin), David Ying (cello), Phillip Ying (viola)For five days this February, the four musicians who make up the highly acclaimed Ying Quartet, a...
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Theater Department presents ‘Quake’
Last weekend, the Bowdoin College Department of Theater and Dance presented their spring semester show, Quake by Melanie Marnich. Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater Melissa C. Thompson directed...
View ArticleVideo: Bowdoin Philosophy Professor Argues For Greater Paternalism
The new book, Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism, by Assistant Professor of Philosophy Sarah Conly, has been described as “novel,” “illuminating” and “provocative” in the New York Review...
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Slideshow: Faculty and Staff Outcook Students with Wild Mushroom Ravioli
The 9th Annual Doug Pollock Polar Chef Cooking Competition in Thorne Dining Hall pitted a team of seasoned faculty and staff against a team of fresh students. Though the students cooked up two gourmet...
View ArticleVideo: Prof. Allen Wells on ‘Hugo Chávez: A Bundle of Contradictions’
Allen Wells, Bowdoin’s Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History, is spending his sabbatical year conducting research into Latin America’s crusade for democracy during the Cold War. Last summer, he spent...
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Slideshow: Art Students Take Whirlwind Trip to NYC
Mark Wethli, Bowdoin’s A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Art, took nine of his studio art majors to New York City for a gallery-, studio- and museum-packed weekend. Among the several artists the class...
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Slideshow: Student Art Show Draws on Science for Inspiration
Instructor Barbara Putnam is encouraging her students to bridge the gap between art and science in her spring semester class, Drawing on Science.“It’s always been my hunch that the two disciplines go...
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