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Building Bridges from Maine’s Island Schools to Bowdoin
In late October, 17 Bowdoin teaching minors boarded a ferry in Rockland to cross Penobscot Bay to spend 24 hours on Vinalhaven, a small Maine island 12 miles off the coast. The students were visiting...
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Bowdoin Professors on the Senate’s Filibuster Bust
On Nov. 21 the Senate changed its rules to limit the use of filibusters for blocking executive and judicial nominees. “This change has been bandied about for more than 50 years, by both parties,” said...
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How Will Coastal Communities Deal With a Rising Sea?
Interdisciplinary panel: Cameron Adams ’14, Government professor Allen Springer and State Marine Geologist Peter Slovinsky Communities around the world are grappling with their shared future: Sea...
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Chakkalakal Talks Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin (BBC Radio 4)
BBC Radio 4 recently came to Brunswick to visit the Harriet Beecher Stowe house and interview Tess Chakkalakal, associate professor of Africana Studies and English, about the lasting impacts of...
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Photographer Accra Shepp to Teach Learning by Looking
Accra Shepp Inviting people to learn with their eyes is a big part of Accra Shepp’s mission. A photographer, educator, social documentarian, and soon-to-be Visiting Artist In Residence at Bowdoin,...
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Student Photographs Show the World Anew
Space and time, Garret English ’16 This semester, the nine students in Associate Professor of Art Michael Kolster’s photography seminar pursued independent projects based on the concept of exploring...
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Feminism, Image and Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus’ attention-grabbing performance at the MTV Video Music Awards — featuring a teddy bear onesie and a risqué duet with Robin Thicke — sparked a lecture and student discussion of gender and...
View ArticleDecember Dance Concert Lights Up New Edwards Center
Bowdoin’s annual December Dance Concert was held in the new Edwards Art Center last week, and featured dances by Bowdoin dance faculty Nyama McCarthy Brown, Gwyneth Jones and Paul Sarvis. The video...
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Maine Tribal Members Visit Campus to Speak of Painful History
Two members of the Maine Wabanaki State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission, gkisedtanamoogk and Dr. Gail Werrbach, with Esther Attean, right For the thousands Native American children in...
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Lunch with LePage: Maine Governor Invites Students — And Their Ideas
Bowdoin government students enjoy lunch at the Blaine House with Gov. LePage. After visiting government professor Chris Potholm’s Maine Politics class last month, Maine Governor Paul LePage...
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Museums: Myths, Memories and Meaning
A glittering blue gemstone the size of a walnut, the Hope Diamond is an object of beauty and a marvel of nature. But the real reason it’s in the Smithsonian Museum, said Professor of Anthropology Susan...
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White House Honors Bowdoin’s Oliveira
Daniela Oliveira President Obama named Bowdoin’s Daniela Oliveira as one of 102 researchers nationwide to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The White...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Mandela
The Meaning of Mandela from Bowdoin College on Vimeo. In the wake of Nelson Mandela’s death, David Gordon – a native of South Africa and associate professor of history at Bowdoin – talks with fellow...
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Student Films Premier in Campus Festival, Popcorn Included
Image from student Mariette Aborn’s film “Degrees, Diamonds, and Diapers” about 1960s housewives, featuring Aborn’s grandmother Six student films, created as end-of-semester projects, had their public...
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Workshop Gives Faculty the Keys to a Digital World
Digital Humanities @ Bowdoin from Bowdoin College on Vimeo. Nearly two dozen Bowdoin faculty members are taking a turn as students in a four-day course for faculty titled “Digital Humanities...
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Bowdoin’s Brian Purnell on Service and Martin Luther King Jr. Day (WAMC)
Brian Purnell Brian Purnell, assistant professor of Africana studies and history, speaks of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as one of service in a live interview conducted prior to the observance. Purnell...
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Rudalevige on Presidential Vagueness (Washington Post)
Andrew Rudalevige In a blog post that was featured on a Bloomberg must-read list, Bowdoin Professor of Government Andrew Rudalevige writes for The Washington Post’s column “The Monkey Cage” about why...
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Sarvis Dance Film Featured at Lincoln Center Festival
Images from Paul Sarvis’ 6-minute film “Rooms” The short film “Rooms,” by Paul Sarvis, chair of Bowdoin’s theater and dance department, will be screened Feb. 1 as part of the 42nd annual Dance on...
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The Art of Cell Biology
Leaf surface (Image credit: Bruce Kohorn’s Cell Biology and Biochemistry class). “One thing that many biologists do is revel in the beauty of what we see,” says biology department chair Bruce Kohorn...
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Five Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2014
Five Bowdoin faculty members have been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2014. The Board of Trustees voted on the promotions during their Feb. 6-8 meeting,...
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