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Porpoise Found by Bowdoin Students Gains TV Fame (ABC)
In a recent episode of the series Sea Rescue, ABC TV featured the tale of a stranded harbor porpoise named Noodle and his remarkable journey of recovery back into the wild. The original heroes of the...
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Arctic Museum Behind ‘North by Degree: New Perspectives on Arctic Exploration’
The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center has announced the publication of North by Degree: New Perspectives on Arctic Exploration, a collection of papers on the history of late...
View ArticleKarofsky Lecture: Prof. Nelson on the US Educational Gap
Each semester, members of the senior class select a faculty member to give the Karofsky Faculty Encore Lecture at Common Hour. The choice is based on a professor’s teaching ability and influence on...
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World Cinema Film Festival Kicks Off
This week Bowdoin presents the World Cinema Film Festival, drawing upon contemporary films from across the globe and international cinema expertise from across the campus. Organized by the Film Studies...
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Acclaimed Author Faludi to Deliver Tallman Lecture
Susan Faludi Acclaimed feminist writer Susan Faludi, currently Tallman Scholar in Gender and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin, will deliver a lecture called ”Feminism, Interrupted: Why Can’t the Women’s...
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A Thimble, and a Tale of Two Phebes
Within every object, no matter how unassuming it may be, is a story. The Object Show: Discoveries in Bowdoin’s Collections, on display at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art through June 1, draws from...
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Bateman Wins NSF CAREER Grant for Genetics Research and Education
Drosophila cookies baked by Bateman’s students Biology professor Jack Bateman has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER award in the amount of $797,395 for his project...
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Bowdoin Receives Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Award
Bowdoin has received $500,000 to support another four years of participation in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Program, along with $116,000 for...
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Bowdoin Wins Beckman Scholars Award for Scientific Research
Bowdoin is one of only 12 colleges nationwide to win the coveted Beckman Scholars Program award, receiving $104,000 to support the research of four student-mentor pairs over the next three years in...
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The Downside of Positivity
Is there a negative side to positivity? Psychology researcher Cynthia Stifter explores that question in “exuberant” children — kids who are more positive and active than their peers, yet may also be...
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Creative Energy: Acclaimed Writers at Bowdoin
From left: Russ Rymer, Susan Faludi, Sarah Braunstein, and Jaed Coffin (Photo: James Marshall) Right now Bowdoin is a writing powerhouse. No fewer than four illustrious writers – Susan Faludi, Russ...
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Filming the Sea: David Conover at Bowdoin
Award-winning documentary filmmaker David Conover ’83, who is slated as Bowdoin’s Coastal Studies Scholar for 2014-2015, comes to campus this week to present an April 2 lecture in Kresge Auditorium,...
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Finding the Role of Culture in ‘Nature vs. Nurture’
Ariye Krassner ’14 Compared to an American childhood, does a Danish upbringing make for a happier kid? Traditionally, temperament has been considered an innate trait, but Associate Professor of...
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Visiting Artist Joins Printmaking Students in New Studio
Bowdoin’s new printmaking studio hummed with artistic energy during a recent visit from printmaker Susan Groce, chair of the art department at the University of Maine and an acclaimed artist whose...
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Amernet Quartet, Calloway to Premiere Work by Bowdoin’s Shende
Shende’s song cycle is set to Julie Gard’s prose poem series “Thin Bits of Evidence,” in which each poem is tied to one of the objects above. Mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway and the Amernet String...
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Seven Faculty Members Promoted to Full Professor
Seven Bowdoin faculty members have been promoted from the rank of associate to full professor: Aviva Briefel (English, Film Studies), Philip Camill (Environmental Studies; Earth and Oceanographic...
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Kolster Takes Camera to the Savannah River (Augusta Chronicle)
As part of his Guggenheim-funded project ‘Take Me to the River,’ Associate Professor of Art Michael Kolster spent a month this spring photographing the Savannah River in the southeastern U.S., where...
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Holt’s 2014 Guggenheim Makes Three in a Row for Bowdoin
Bowdoin’s John Holt, professor of religion and Asian studies, has snagged a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship to examine the violence of Buddhist extremists against Muslim...
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Ying Quartet Brings Musical Perspective to Bowdoin Classes
When one of the world’s top chamber ensembles comes to Bowdoin, it’s not just music majors who have reason to get excited. During the Ying Quartet’s two-and-a-half-day visit this past week, in between...
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15 Bowdoin Teacher Scholars Earn Certification
Fifteen students and recent alumni stepped onto the Kanbar Auditorium stage in Studzinski Hall to receive their Maine teacher certifications at the 2014 Honors Day ceremony, marking their completion of...
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