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Simulating the Senate: Classics Course Immerses Students in Roman History and...
A Roman senate meeting in Michael Nerdahl’s class “The Republic of Rome and the Evolution of Executive Power” (Illustration credit: Abby McBride)“All in favor?” says Lucius Manlius, surveying a sea of...
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Department Awards Presented on 2013 Honors Day
Bowdoin College held its 17th annual Honors Day ceremony yesterday evening to recognize the academic achievements of Bowdoin students and faculty. The ceremony was held at Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski...
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McKeen Center Honors Volunteers, Pays Tribute to Leslie Shaw
Leslie Shaw (1955-2012)The McKeen Center’s annual awards ceremony, which every year recognizes a few Bowdoin community members for their volunteer service, was extra special this year.The final award...
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Research Vessel Dedicated to Bowdoin Professor Ed Laine
The dedication of the R/V LaineFor those passing through the northeast side of campus last Friday, it was hard to miss the 21-foot Seaway research vessel perched high and dry outside of Cleaveland...
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‘Everything is Peaches Down in Georgia’: Okie Wins Prize for Dissertation...
Tom OkieVisiting Assistant Professor of History Tom Okie was awarded the prestigious Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians, for his dissertation “Everything is Peaches Down in...
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Bowdoin RoboCup Team Competes in Europe
Northern Bites Robocup poster, courtesy of Nick Edises ’13 Northern Bites, Bowdoin’s soccer-playing robot team, has made it through the first round of 16 at the international 2013 RoboCup, which is...
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Zeeman on Environmental Change and the Power of Math
Mary Lou Zeeman Bowdoin Professor of Mathematics Mary Lou Zeeman is featured in the June/July issue of MAA Focus, the newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America. The article (also viewable...
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Bowdoin Dining — A Labor of Love — Featured on NBC’s Today Show
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy It’s nice to gain national recognition for the best college food in America, but that’s not what drives the chefs, servers,...
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Bowdoin Gears Up for 2013 Alumni College, ‘The Afterlife of the American...
This Thursday through Sunday (August 8-11) Bowdoin is hosting “The Afterlife of the American Civil War,” an Alumni College weekend filled with hands-on studies of culture, music, art and poetry in...
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Bowdoin Launches Chamberlain Memoir and ‘This Mighty Scourge of War’ Art...
Front cover of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s memoir, and “Ruins of the Arsenal, Richmond, Virginia, April 1865″ by Alexander Gardner Tomorrow night is a Civil War literary and artistic double-header at...
View ArticleVideo: Volunteer Night at the Bowdoin Organic Garden
The crops at the Bowdoin Organic Garden — the beets, peppers, eggplants, flowers, Swiss chard, etcetera — are thriving. To help keep up with the work, and to give people in the Bowdoin community a...
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Every semester, students sign up to play with Bowdoin’s Afro-Latin Music Ensemble, a half-credit musical group that studies and performs traditional songs from Latin America. And every semester,...
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Slideshow: The Civil War Through a Camera Lens
A century and a half before ubiquitous iPhones and Instagram — in an era of cumbersome cameras and very long exposure times — a handful of intrepid photographers were capturing images of a pivotal time...
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50 Years After the March on Washington: Remembering MLK and Bayard Rustin at...
Goals and Strategies, a speech delivered at Bowdoin by Bayard Rustin (broadside created by Thomas Cornell; provided courtesy of the Bowdoin College Library Department of Special Collections and...
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Cristle Collins Judd: A Brief History of the Arts at Bowdoin (Part III)
Today, the arts play a central role in a Bowdoin education, but that hasn’t always been the case. In this three-part series, Dean for Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd explores the history and...
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Bowdoin Opens Academic Year with 212th Convocation
The College’s annual Convocation ceremony, marking the official opening of the 212th academic year, was held on September 4 in Pickard Theater of Memorial Hall. In his “Opening of the College” address...
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Bowdoin’s Welsch Profiles Gloria Swanson in New Biography (Wall Street Journal)
Tricia Welsch, associate professor of film studies at Bowdoin, gives larger-than-life movie legend Gloria Swanson her due in a new biography published by the University Press of Mississippi....
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The Fugitive Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin (New York Times)
Clemson University professor Susanna Ashton writes in Common-Place about research surrounding a fugitive slave who hid for one night in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Brunswick home, an event that likely...
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Wells Talks Latin American Democracy
Allen Wells speaks at the first faculty lunch seminar of 2013-2014 Professor of History Allen Wells, just back from a yearlong sabbatical devoted to studying the history of Latin American democracy,...
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Eusden ’12 and Prof. Logan Publish Research on New Ways to Measure Plant Stress
Spencer Eusden ’12 monitoring plants in a University of Idaho lab A research project that Spencer Eusden ’12 worked on his senior year at Bowdoin has culminated in a publication in New Phytologist, a...
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