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Bowdoin’s Palopoli Finds Promising Way to Study Evolution, with Mites (Science)
Microscopic face mites that live deep in our hair follicles and sweat glands contain information on where our ancestors came from, according to a new study by first author Michael Palopoli, an...
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Perspectives from Bowdoin Professors on the New Climate Deal
We asked professors from different disciplines to weigh in on the new agreement among 195 nations to reduce global emissions in an attempt to save our planet from the worst effects of climate change....
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Bowdoin’s Stephen Morris on the Interest Rate Hike
Stephen Morris Like most people, Bowdoin Assistant Professor of Economics Stephen D. Morris was not surprised by the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike December 16, 2015. “If anything,” he says it’s...
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Rural Pathways to College.
According to Sociology Professor Ingrid Nelson, high school students students from rural backgrounds do better than their urban counterparts when it comes to getting into college, despite a number of...
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Machine Learning: How Computers Predict The Future
Clare Bates Congdon When Assistant Professor of Economics Erik Nelson heard what was going on at the computer science department earlier this semester, he was psyched. “I was excited when she sent out...
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Bowdoin’s Wethli in ‘Artists of the Year’ Group Exhibition in NYC
Salt, Mark Wethli, 2015, Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, one of three paintings in Artists of the Year, a group exhibition at The Curator Gallery in New York City. Mark Wethli, Bowdoin’s A. LeRoy...
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Physics Department Creates New Major for Future High School Teachers
Karen Topp In response to a national shortage of qualified high school physics teachers, Bowdoin’s physics and education departments have teamed up to create a new major that prepares students to teach...
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Bowdoin’s Rudalevige: How Effective is Obama’s Gun Control Action? (Monkey Cage)
Andrew Rudalevige President Obama’s executive action on gun safety highlights how little unilateral authority the American leader has over gun violence in the U.S. In a piece for the Washington Post...
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Bowdoin’s Rudalevige Discusses Obama’s Legacy on MPBN Radio
Andrew Rudalevige As President Obama delivers his final State of the Union address, historians and political scientists discuss the president’s potential legacy on MPBN Radio’s call-in program, Maine...
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Bowdoin’s Selinger and Rudalevige on Obama’s Last ‘State of the Union’ Address
Jeff Selinger Assistant Professor of Government Jeffrey Selinger shares his observations of President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address, delivered January 12, 2016. The president’s final...
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Bowdoin’s Irfan Shares Insight on Historic Internet Security Summit
Mohammad Irfan Computer science professor Mohammad Irfan calls it an historic summit. Earlier this month U.S. government officials, including Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James...
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Bowdoin’s Putnam Finds Dutch, Finnish Babies Smile, Cuddle More than US Babies
A baby from the Netherlands or Finland smiles, laughs and cuddles more than an infant growing up in the United States, according to a study by Bowdoin Professor of Psychology Sam Putnam and his...
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Bowdoin Scientist Cited in NY Times ‘Deflategate’ Update (New York Times)
Yes, we know…everyone is tired of Tom Brady and deflated footballs. Everyone except The New York Times, that is. With the Patriots taking the field on Sunday against the Denver Broncos for the right...
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Bowdoin’s Pritchard on the Implications of Anglican-Episcopalian Conflict
The U.S. Episcopal Church is paying the price for its decision last year to endorse same-sex weddings. Earlier this month the Church’s governing body censured the Episcopalians for their stance on the...
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Book Site Features New Titles by Bowdoin Faculty
Interested in contemporary Chinese art? Troubled by the moral dilemma of having children in a crowded world? Want to learn more about why it took so long to end slavery in the United States? All these...
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Coalition of College Libraries, including Bowdoin, Launches New Press
A collaboration of college libraries across the country, including Bowdoin, are starting up a new publishing outfit that aims to shake up the world of academic publishing. By making its titles...
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Nine New Courses Offered This Semester
Bowdoin professors are offering nine new courses to students this semester, in subjects ranging from visual art history and social sciences, to psycho-pharmacology, computer science and economics....
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Rudalevige: Key Questions Supreme Court Must Consider on Obama’s Immigration...
Andrew Rudalevige The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case assessing the legality of the immigration initiatives announced by President Obama in November 2014. Obama wants to make it easier for as...
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Rudalevige: Obama’s Gun Measures Feed ‘Government Distrust Narrative’ (U.S....
Andrew Rudalevige Featured in an article by U.S. News & World Report, Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, says gun lobbyists fear President Obama’s executive...
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Studying History Through Objects: Art History’s Dana Byrd
Dana Byrd Assistant Professor of Art History Dana Byrd likes to talk about history in terms of the tangible. She’s less interested in ideas and thought than she is in that which we can see and touch....
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