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Professor Nancy Riley: Making Sense of China’s One-Child Policy
Since China abolished its one-child policy last fall, many commentators have weighed in on the policy, debating its merits and impacts. Professor of Sociology Nancy Riley has studied China’s population...
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Bowdoin Teams up With Mid Coast Hospital for New Mindfulness Health Program
Hannah Reese It’s called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, or MBSR, and Assistant Professor of Psychology Hannah Reese hopes it will help many Brunswick area residents enjoy good health in 2016....
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‘Why African-American [Blank] Matters’ Series Launches with Talk on Voting...
Kicking off the first of a series of talks this month called, “Why African-American [Blank] Matters in America,” Professor of History Patrick Rael gave a lecture on voting and why reducing obstacles to...
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Prof. Matthew Klingle on Flint Water Poisoning
Matthew Klingle Matthew Klingle, associate professor of history and environmental studies, shares his thoughts on the ongoing water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan, where lead started leaking...
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Dean Scanlon’s Latest Book Examines ‘Unsung’ Female Civil Rights Hero
Jennifer Scanlon Dean for Academic Affairs Jennifer Scanlon’s latest book Until There is Justice: The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman (Oxford University Press, January 2016) is the first biography of the...
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Black History Month: Prof. Vaughan Explores Africans in the US Since 1980s
Olufemi Vaughan In the early 1960s, there were about 80,00 African immigrants and their children in the United States. Today, that number has grown to five million, and more than 10 percent of all...
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The Last Days of Kent Island Hares
In a new article published in The Ecological Society of America’s journal, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Bowdoin’s Nat Wheelwright tells the story about how the hares decimated the islands’...
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Bowdoin’s Janet Martin Answers Questions on Primary Process (WalletHub)
Janet Martin Professor of Government Janet Martin talks to the personal finance website WalletHub about the primary elections and why they’re important. Martin is among a panel of experts quizzed about...
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One of America’s ‘Funniest Writers’ Coming to Bowdoin (Maine Sunday Telegram)
The Faculty Room atop Massachusetts Hall is bound to be pretty crowded Tuesday evening when Paul Beatty, “one of the funniest writers in America,” stops by to read from his new book. It’s part of the...
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To Catch a Goat: An Interesting Approach to Invasive Species Eradication
About 15 years ago, scientists in Mexico decided it was time to get rid of the goats on Isla Guadalupe, the country’s westernmost Island about 150 miles beyond the Baja peninsula. It’s a remote,...
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Prof. Hecht: Why Glorifying Scientists Undermines Science (The Chronicle of...
David Hecht In a new article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Assistant Professor of History David Hecht examines the way we idealize some scientists and, at times, distort their findings to come...
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Dean Scanlon’s Biography of Civil Rights Activist Hedgeman is ‘Long Overdue’...
A biography of African-American activist Anna Arnold Hedgeman is “long overdue,” says The New York Times. Until There is Justice (Oxford University Press), the latest book by Dean for Academic Affairs...
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Bowdoin’s Selinger Discusses Scalia Succession Question
The sudden death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia earlier this month has been described as a “monumental political development” with some observers even saying it could lead to a...
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Prof. Mark Wethli Show “(Un)conditional Color” Opens in NYC
Mark Wethli’s new curated show, (Un)conditional Color, opened Feb. 24 at The Curator Gallery, at 520 West 23rd Street in New York City. It runs through April 2nd. It is the third show that Wethli,...
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Prof. Klingle Takes His Research In New Directions, From Environmental...
Matthew Klingle has departed from his comfortable academic specialization of environmental history and the North American West to plunge into the unfamiliar world of public health and chronic disease....
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Prof. Nadia Celis Receives Award for New Book
Nadia Celis The 2016 Premio Iberoamericano Award Committee of the Latin American Studies Association has awarded an honorable mention to Nadia Celis’s book, La rebelión de las niñas: El Caribe y la...
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Prof. Kohorn Wins NSF Grant to Investigate How Plants Sense External Events
When biologist Bruce Kohorn 25 years ago “accidentally” stumbled upon an unknown protein that turned out to be critical for cell growth and for protecting plants from pathogens, it set him off on a...
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Bowdoin Social Justice-Climate Group: The Flint Water Crisis
The faculty, staff and students who organized last fall’s community teach-In, which focused the campus’s attention on environmental and social justice issues, are continuing their work this semester....
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The Growing Sex Appeal of Mathematics
Thomas Pietraho There’s no doubt about it, mathematics is getting sexier. Take for example the recent lunchtime math lecture “Sex and the Single Statistician.” Several dozen students crowded into...
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Prof. David Gordon: Does Humanitarianism Do More Harm Than Good in Africa?
David Gordon The African continent is teeming with well-meaning international, humanitarian activity, but how helpful has it been? This was a question posed by history professor David Gordon at a...
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