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Faverón Patriau’s Acclaimed Novel To Be Released
Gustavo Faverón Patriau’s debut novel The Antiquarian, first published in Spanish in 2011 to effusive acclaim, continues to gain momentum with a suite of new translations lined up for the upcoming...
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A Big Year for the Visual Arts at Bowdoin
As Bowdoin’s Visual Arts professors wrap up an exciting first year of teaching in the new Edwards Center for Art and Dance, they can also celebrate a year of remarkable achievement in their individual...
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What’s the best part about teaching at Bowdoin? Just ask these twelve professors of government, film studies, Africana studies, biology, art history, Romance languages, Asian studies, chemistry,...
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Novel by Bowdoin’s Faverón Patriau Lauded by New York Times
A “delightfully macabre” neo-gothic psychological thriller, Gustavo Faverón Patriau’s debut novel, The Antiquarian, “has hundreds of intricate pieces” and is “intelligently conceived and well...
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Bowdoin and INBRE Collaborators Receive $18.4 Million Grant
Bowdoin is one of 13 participating institutions in a program that just received an $18.4 million grant to strengthen biomedical research and workforce training in Maine. The National Institute of...
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Coastal Studies Symposium Previews Summer Research, Marine Lab Expansion
Summer may be a break from classes, but right now things are busier than ever at Bowdoin’s Coastal Studies Center: students and faculty have launched into scientific research projects investigating...
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Bowdoin Team Heads to Brazil for Robot Soccer World Cup
Now that the FIFA World Cup contenders have finished battling it out, another international soccer competition is just getting started in Brazil — only this time, the players aren’t human. Five...
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Bring on the Science (Bowdoin Magazine)
At a research hub on the coast of Maine, scientists are busy investigating the biology and ecology of bats and rats, lobsters and crickets, bacteria and yeast, eelgrass and elderberry. Shedding light...
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Students Harness Tech Tools for History, Art, Literature, Education,...
One pair of Bowdoin students has spent the summer creating a stop-motion animated film telling the story of how Huntington’s disease works at the molecular level. Two others have developed mobile apps...
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Rudalevige on Presidential Term Limits (Washington Post)
Andrew Rudalevige Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Bracket Reed Professor of Government, has been in demand of late — appearing in Washington Post blogs left and right. On the heels of his latest...
View ArticleStalking the Invasive Green Crab in Harpswell Sound
Aidan Short ’15 is unusually familiar with the invasive green crabs in Harpswell Sound: specifically, with the contents of their stomachs. Stalking the Invasive Green Crab from Bowdoin College on...
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35 New Faculty Members Get Oriented at Bowdoin
Bowdoin’s first-year students are busy getting oriented to their new home in coastal Maine. But what about new faculty members? They’ve got their own orienting to do. This year’s New Faculty...
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Bowdoin’s Lichter Garners Sewall Foundation Grant for Fisheries Research
Bowdoin received a major grant from the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation to support the Maine fisheries research of John Lichter, Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies and Director of the College’s...
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What I Did This Summer: French Professor Hanétha Vété-Congolo
Hanétha Vete-Congolo Associate Professor of Romance Languages Hanétha Vété-Congolo tells us about her summer researching gender and society in her native Martinique: Once again I have had a very...
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What I Did This Summer: Studying the Science of Red Tide
Sasha Kramer ’16 Sasha Kramer ’16 spent the summer at Bowdoin’s Coastal Studies Center, studying the dynamics of algal blooms that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. She has been collaborating in the...
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New Research Vessel Joins the Bowdoin Coastal Studies Fleet
With big expansions underway in Coastal Studies facilities and programming, Bowdoin has made a valuable acquisition: the R/V A.O.K., a 28-foot research vessel with a twin outboard hull. Donated...
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Sabbatical Seminars: Casselberry on Black Pentecostal Women
This week’s faculty seminar series featured Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Judith Casselberry, who gave a presentation called “Harvesting Souls for Christ: Black Pentecostal Women’s Labor at...
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Studying the Many-Sided Civil War
Civil War cluster students Michael Smith, Alexxa Leon, and Katie Randall In one sense, there were only two sides in the Civil War – but there are many sides to the story of this pivotal era in...
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Coastal Studies Expansion Brings New Marine Science Semester to Bowdoin
Big changes are astir at the Coastal Studies Center on Orr’s Island, where Coastal Studies director David Carlon is leading an initiative to bring Bowdoin’s unique marine offerings to a whole new...
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Teach-In: Faculty Offer Background to Hong Kong Protests
To broaden students’ understanding of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution, professors Sarah Mak and Leah Zuo organized a “teach-in” last week: each gave short talks on Hong Kong’s history and politics in a...
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