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Recent Bowdoin Grad’s Paper on Deep Sea Coral ‘A Critical Finding,’ Says...
Meg Frenkel ’16 Megan Frenkel ’16 is making waves in the world of ocean science. Frenkel, who changed her name from Freiberger last year, is the lead author on a paper recently published in the journal...
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Laura Griffee’17 Virtually Games Her Way to Interactive Art
During a yearlong independent study, Laura Griffee ’17 developed virtual reality software to make a DIY sculpture tool. Griffee, a visual arts major, worked with Google Cardboard and other virtual...
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What Chamberlain’s Behavior at Appomattox Could Teach Today’s Politicians...
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain When Confederate General John Brown Gordon surrendered his forces to Union General Joshua Chamberlain at the Battle of Appomattox Court House in April 1865, Chamberlain’s...
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Bowdoin’s Danahy Mentors US International Chemistry Olympiad Team
Michael Danahy Bowdoin College chemistry lecturer Michael Danahy described the four high school students chosen to represent the US in this year’s International Chemistry Olympiad as “one of the...
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Rudalevige: Bowdoin’s ‘Founding Principles’ Series Aims to Tackle...
Andrew Rudalevige Writing in his regular Monkey Cage blog in the Washington Post, Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, expressed dismay over the level of public...
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Art History Professor’s New Bowdoin Show Doesn’t Flinch From Death (Art Daily)
The opening of Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s latest show, The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe, was kicked off last week with a keynote address from Stephen Perkinson, the...
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Bowdoin Japan Trip ‘An Unforgettable Learning Experience’
A group of seven students and three faculty recently returned from a twelve-day field trip to Japan, described by one student as an “unforgettable learning experience,” and by another as “a journey of...
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Bowdoin’s Rudalevige Explains Concept of Federalism (Monkey Cage)
Founding Principles Chapter Two: Federalism from Bowdoin College on Vimeo. Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government Andrew Rudalevige explained the concept of federalism in the latest edition of...
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Bowdoin and the Environment: Students Experience Iceland in the Making
Earth and Oceanographic Science professor Collin Roesler offers a glimpse of what she, three other Bowdoin faculty, and 20 Bowdoin students experienced on a recent scientific trip to Iceland. “Iceland...
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Rudalevige: If You Don’t like Congress, Blame the Constitution (Monkey Cage)
Founding Principles Chapter Three: Congress from Bowdoin College on Vimeo. Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, reflects on the consistently bad approval ratings...
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‘For the Common Good’: Dorn Book Challenges ‘Crisis in Higher Ed’
Professor of Education Charles Dorn researched 200 years of higher education history to gain a unique perspective on some of the most vexing issues facing the field today. In his new book, For the...
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Bowdoin Instructor Takes on ‘Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me!’ Listener Limerick...
Shana Stewart Deeds Shana Stewart Deeds, a laboratory instructor in biology and environmental studies, was a phone-in guest on NPR’s Wait, Wait.. Don’t Tell Me! On the quiz show’s July 15, 2017,...
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Bowdoin Students Take Modern Dance Production to Northampton Spring Dance...
Aoki and her eight students were part of MAYDANCE, a month-long festival of contemporary dance in Northampton, MA. Photo: Peter Raper Assistant Professor of Dance Aretha Aoki concluded the spring...
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Technology Fellows Target Old Mongolian Maps, Tourette’s, and Teacher...
Each summer, Bowdoin faculty are invited to apply for funding from the college’s Gibbons Summer Research Program to hire students to help them with technological research. John A. Gibbons, Jr. ‘64...
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Founding Principles: Everything You Need to Know about How the Constitution...
The Washington Post political science blog Monkey Cage continues its weekly series presenting episodes from Bowdoin’s Founding Principles, a series of videos designed to explain American government...
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Bowdoin’s Lea Discusses Larsen C Ice Shelf
Scientists had been monitoring the crack in the Larsen C ice shelf for several years An iceberg the size of Delaware recently broke away from western Antarctica and is now floating in the ocean. A big...
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Bowdoin Professor Outlines Legal Risks of Local Climate Change Regulations
Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental Studies Shana Starobin Shana Starobin, a newly appointed assistant professor of government and environmental studies who will teach Environmental...
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Vineet Shende’s Solo Violin Work ‘A Dazzling Showpiece’ (Portland Press Herald)
Vineet Shende Associate Professor of Music Vineet Shende’s latest piece for solo violin had its world premiere recently and is garnering high praise from at least one critic. Former New York Times...
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Dorn Essay ‘What Is College Good For? (Hint: More Than Just a Job)’ in...
Charles Dorn In an essay published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Charles Dorn, professor of education and associate dean for academic affairs, shares a personal account of his family’s...
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Six Bowdoin Professors Appointed to Named Chairs
(Top row, l. to r.) Jackie Brown, Belinda Kong, Robert Morrison. (Bottom row, l. to r.) Brian Purnell, Allen Springer, Birgit Tautz Six members of the Bowdoin faculty have been appointed to named...
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