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Coach Wells Prepares for First Season with the Polar Bears (Portland Press...
James ‘JB’ Wells Earlier this year, James “JB” Wells was named Bowdoin’s new football coach. While the former NESCAC football player met with the team weekly last spring, this fall will mark his first...
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Prof. Nat Wheelwright Honored For Ecological Teaching
Nat Wheelwright, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Natural Sciences The Ecological Society of America has presented Nat Wheelwright, Bowdoin’s Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Natural...
View ArticleSearching for Sweet Victory in the Battle Against H. pylori
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry Danielle Dube’s lab has a reputation for not only being at the forefront of biochemical and medical science, but also for being a place where professor...
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Bowdoin Economist Assesses Impact of Endangered Species Act
Environmental economist Erik Nelson recently studied the impact of U.S. Endangered Species Act regulations on habitats considered most vital to the persistence of endangered and threatened species....
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Prof. Scanlon Assesses State of Women’s Equality in the U.S. (WalletHub)
In 2014, the United States failed to make the top 10 of the World Economic Forum’s list of the most gender-equal countries, lagging behind quite a few developing nations — including Burundi, Latvia,...
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Prof. LaVigne and Students Decipher How Past Oceans Responded to Climate Change
Michèle LaVigne As she analyzes long-lived corals culled from the ocean depths, paleoceanographer Michèle LaVigne can read the history of the ocean and learn about its past interactions with the...
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On Course: A Sampling of Bowdoin’s Newest Classes
Faculty members are offering many classes new to Bowdoin this semester — 28 in all. Several professors explain their motivation behind designing and offering their new class, and what they hope their...
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Remembering Professor of Physics Emeritus Roy LaCasce
Roy LaCasce during Reunion Weekend 2006 In a letter to the Bowdoin community, President Clayton Rose writes of Professor of Physics Emeritus Roy LaCasce, who died Tuesday morning at the age of 92....
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Bowdoin’s Newest Tenure-Track Faculty
Several tenure-track professors joined Bowdoin’s faculty this year to teach and do research in a number of fields — math, Romance languages, chemistry, digital and computational studies, theater and...
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Bowdoin’s Rudalevige on the 2016 CNN Presidential Debate (Politico)
Andrew Rudalevige Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, is one of “18 political insiders” chosen by Politico to weighs-in on the performance of the Republican...
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Professor Vasudevan Helps Detect Chemical Exposure in the Environment
You’re not feeling well, you take some medicine, you feel better. End of story? No. Instead, some proportion of some medicines, or their components, passes through your body and makes their way into...
View ArticleVideo: House Renovation Preserves Legacy of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bowdoin has just about finished renovating 63 Federal Street, the 19th-century house where author Harriet Beecher Stowe lived during her brief but productive time in Brunswick. From 1850 to 1852,...
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Hot Topic: An Eruption of Supervolcano Research
By studying micron-millimeter sized slices of fist-sized rocks collected from the earth’s surface, Bowdoin Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science Rachel Beane can discern what has been happening...
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Inaugural Symposium: The Power of the Liberal Arts — Dean Scanlon to Moderate...
Jennifer Scanlon “The Power of the Liberal Arts,” the symposium that is prelude to the inauguration of Clayton S. Rose as Bowdoin’s 15th president, comprises leaders from the worlds of business,...
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Inaugural Symposium: The Power of the Liberal Arts — Mary Lou Zeeman on How...
Mary Lou Zeeman “The Power of the Liberal Arts,” the symposium that is prelude to the inauguration of Clayton S. Rose as Bowdoin’s 15th president, comprises leaders from the worlds of business, design,...
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Bowdoin’s Margaret Boyle Wins Book Prize for ‘Unruly Women’
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Margaret Boyle’s new book, Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain, has received an honorable mention from the...
View ArticleNeuroscientist Erika Nyhus Studies Memory, With Hope of Improving It One Day
As the population ages and lives longer, the rate of memory disorders is increasing. The National Institutes of Health warn that the number of people with memory impairment could double by 2050. It’s...
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Potholm’s ‘Women Warrior’ Class Underway as Pentagon Announces All Combat...
Sage Santangelo ’12 shakes hands with former Bowdoin College President Barry Mills at the commissioning ceremony following Commencement. Christian Potholm, Bowdoin’s DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor...
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Mind Mapping: How to Adapt to Climate Change in the Gulf of Maine
Nick Record Ocean scientist Nick Record, from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay, held a public lecture December 2, 2015, at Adams Hall at the invitation of students from the Earth...
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Bowdoin’s Patrick Rael: How the Alliance Between Slaves and Abolitionists...
Patrick Rael One hundred fifty years ago this week, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, abolishing slavery. Students observed the anniversary Sunday. Professor of History Patrick...
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