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Art With a Moral Message: William Powell Frith and Victorian Realism
Pamela Fletcher As she prepares for her next book, Professor of Art History Pamela Fletcher examines how Victorian art reflected social reality. In a recent faculty seminar she focused on the work of...
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How Joshua Chamberlain Influenced Maine’s 2017 Ranked-Choice Voting Decision...
Joshua Chamberlain Earlier this week, on May 23, 2017, Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state’s voter-approved ranked-choice voting system—due to be implemented next year—is...
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Professor Gibbons Wins US Grant to Study Proposed Nuclear Weapons Ban
Last December, 113 nations voted at the United Nations to begin the process of eliminating nuclear weapons worldwide. These nations will meet in June in an attempt to finalize negotiations and produce...
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Earth and Oceanographic Science Students Iceland-Bound
EOS students and faculty members before boarding a bus to Boston to meet up with the rest of the group heading to Iceland for a 10-day field seminar. Eleven students and four faculty members from the...
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Students, Faculty Arrive in Japan to Study After-Effects of Environmental Crises
A group of seven students and three faculty from the Department of Asian Studies has arrived in Japan for a trip supported by a Bowdoin Humanities Initiative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation....
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Professor Matthew Klingle and Architect Tim Mansfield Discuss Roux Center for...
Architect Timothy Mansfield and Prof. Matt Klingle Discuss Roux Center for the Environment from Bowdoin College on Vimeo. Construction begins this month on the Roux Center for the Environment, a...
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Bowdoin’s Rudalevige on Whether Trump Has the Power to Block Comey from...
Andrew Rudalevige It has been reported that President Trump will not invoke “executive privilege” to prevent former FBI director James Comey from testifying before a Senate committee Thursday. As...
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Bowdoin Joins Project to Help Coastal Towns Withstand a Rising Sea
Bowdoin College’s Eileen Johnson will be collaborating with the Rockland-based Island Institute to help Maine’s 120 coastal and island communities cope with battering storm surges and rising sea...
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Teacher Tweets: Education and Computer Science Faculty Dig Into What It All...
Stephen Houser and Doris Santoro A pioneering research project, involving education and computer science faculty, has now processed more than 1.2 million teacher tweets in an effort to get the true...
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Professors Comment on Implications of Trump’s Paris Accord Withdrawal
In 2015, shortly after 195 nations had signed the historic Paris climate accord to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and attempt to curb climate change, we asked several Bowdoin faculty to weigh in on...
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Rudalevige on Russia Investigation — And Whether It’s ‘Really Worse’ Than...
Andrew Rudalevige In advance of former FBI director James Comey’s testimony before a Senate committee last Thursday, Bowdoin’s Andrew Rudalevige shared his executive power expertise in examining...
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Bowdoin’s Rudalevige: James Comey an ‘Adroit Political Actor’ (U.S. News &...
Andrew Rudalevige Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government Andrew Rudalevige described James Comey as a “very adroit political actor,” following the former FBI director’s appearance before the...
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Has American Higher Ed. Lost Its Way? Bowdoin’s Dorn Delves Into Question in...
Professor Chuck Dorn has just published a new history of higher education Are colleges and universities in crisis today? Is college too expensive and yet still not preparing graduates for real-life...
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Bowdoin’s Dorn Discusses New Book, ‘For the Common Good’ (Inside Higher...
Charles Dorn Inside Higher Ed editor Scott Jaschik interviews Professor of Education Charles Dorn about his new book, For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education. The book examines four time...
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UK Politics: May’s Election ‘Gamble’ Explained by Bowdoin’s Henry Laurence
After last week’s snap election weakened her grip on power, UK Prime Minister Theresa May is now left without a parliamentary majority. As she scrambles to form a government, the clock is ticking...
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Portraying Appalachia: How the Movies Can Get it Wrong
Meredith McCarroll Professor Meredith McCarroll grew up near Asheville, in the mountains of North Carolina. It was only when she moved away that she “became aware of how powerful people’s negative...
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Bowdoin’s Briefel Discusses New LGBT Icon ‘The Babadook’ (Mic)
Aviva Briefel Professor of English and Cinema Studies Aviva Briefel lent her insight to a recent article on Mic about a new LGBT icon that’s emerged this year. The “Babadook,” a top-hatted monster in...
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Analysis by Rudalevige: ‘Happy (Belated) Birthday, Watergate Break-in’...
Andrew Rudalevige Noting that this past weekend marked the 45th anniversary of Watergate — the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the office building bearing that name —...
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Museum of Art Presents ‘The Ivory Mirror’ with Opening Lecture and Reception...
“Office of the Dead, Book of Hours,” beginning of the 16th century, parchment by an unknown artist, France. The Huntington Library, San Marino, California Stephen Perkinson, Peter M. Small Associate...
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Scientists Detect More Activity in Deep Space As Black Holes Collide
LIGO Observatory, in Hanford, WA. Visible are the two 4km arms containing vacuum chambers used to detect gravitational wave activity. (Courtesy: LIGO Laboratory) There’s renewed excitement in the...
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