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Bowdoin Economist Critiques US Carbon Markets (Climate Change Economics)
In a new analysis of US carbon-offset programs that reward farmers for reforesting their farmland, Assistant Professor of Economics Erik Nelson finds that the programs are not enticing enough orchard...
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Bowdoin’s Morrison Reacts to Iran-Saudi Hajj Fallout
Robert Morrison On Frida,y September 9, 2016, about two million Muslims from around the world begin their annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, where they will gather at the holy city of Mecca for...
View ArticleBowdoin Profs, Students Use 3D Printers to Advance Their Work
As 3D printers become more common and affordable, Bowdoin professors are taking advantage of the machines’ ability to print pretty much anything. In the chemistry department, Assistant Professor Soren...
View ArticlePrinting Lessons: 3D Printers Provide Added Dimension to Teaching, Learning...
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Soren Eustis recently shared with WGME how he’s using 3D printers for his teaching and research. Faculty and staff at Bowdoin are increasingly using 3D printers to...
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Bowdoin’s Barbara Held on the ‘Tyranny of the Positive Attitude’ (Newsweek)
Barbara Held The power of positive thinking is often touted by self-help gurus as the path out of hardship toward an improved quality of life. But, as a recent Newsweek article points out, a number of...
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How Digital Technologies Are Changing Our Relationship to History and...
Sarah Bay-Cheng In a recent faculty seminar, Sarah Bay-Cheng, professor of theater studies, talked about the interface of history, performance, and digital technology. Her talk, “New Media, New...
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The Untold Stories of Three Black Women Activists
Three biographers of black female activists recently got together at Bowdoin to discuss the commonalities and differences in the historical figures they study. Jen Scanlon, professor of gender,...
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Bowdoin’s Purnell on Tulsa Shooting and Police Use of Lethal Force (Common...
Brian Purnell Was the deadly shooting of an African-American man by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 16, 2016, justified? Did the killing of Terence Crutcher meet the legally determined standard of...
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The Shared History of Maine and the Arctic (Our Arctic Nation)
Susan Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine at the site of Arctic explorer Robert Peary’s 1908–09 shore camp on Floeberg Beach, Ellesmere Island, Canada. The U.S. Department of State selected Portland, Maine,...
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Marketing Schools? Education Research by Bowdoin Professor Causes Stir
Research by Sarah Butler Jessen, visiting assistant professor of education, has made people look hard at how educational privatization and school choice has led to schools spending more on marketing....
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Meet Bowdoin’s Newest Tenure-Track Professors
Seven tenure-track professors were appointed to Bowdoin’s faculty this year to teach and conduct research in a number of fields—computer science; English; gender, sexuality and women’s studies;...
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Arctic Council in Maine: Bowdoin’s Kaplan and LeMoine Highlight Heart of the...
Click image to view WCSH segment. Amid this week’s Senior Arctic Officials meeting of the Arctic Council in Portland, Maine, Bowdoin’s Susan Kaplan, director of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and...
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Bowdoin Economist Finds Globalization Has Not Varied Our Diets
Erik Nelson Although one might assume, after strolling the aisles of a supermarket in the US, that globalization has increased the diversity of our food choices in North America, our diets are actually...
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Rudalevige on the Vice Presidential Debate (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News and World Report taps Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, for insights following the vice presidential debate between Tim Kaine and Mike Pence. “If we...
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Bowdoin’s Janet Martin Discusses New Book, ‘The Gendered Executive’
Janet M. Martin The Gendered Executive: A Comparative Analysis of Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Chief Executives (Temple University Press, 2016) is a collection of thirteen essays examining the...
View ArticleBig Bowdoin Math Conference Draws Luminaries, Students
Michael Kleber, a mathematician at Google who is making the web faster, gave a community lecture at a recent math conference at Bowdoin Bowdoin Professor of Mathematics Jennifer Taback says that...
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Bowdoin Historian Tapped as Finalist For Slavery Book Prize
Patrick Rael Bowdoin Professor of History Patrick Rael has been selected as one of five finalists for the Harriet Tubman Prize, which honors nonfiction books that examine slavery, the slave trade, or...
View ArticleVideo: Bowdoin First-Years Examine the Supreme Court and Social Change
The Supreme Court and Social Change from Bowdoin College on Vimeo. The U.S. Supreme Court hands down rulings that affect us all, but does the high court impact social change directly? Maron Sorenson,...
View ArticleThe Trial of Galileo: A First-Year History Seminar Re-enactment
Students in Assistant Professor of History Meghan Roberts’ first-year seminar, Reacting to the Past, spent September immersed in a fraught period, during early modern Europe, when science was rising...
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Two Government Professors Discuss the Unprecedented 2016 Election
After the panel, students watched the debate in Helmreich House Before packing into the Helmreich House common room to watch last night’s final presidential debate, students attended a pre-debate panel...
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