Ethics Prize for Obama Honors Bowdoin Grad Paul H. Douglas, Class of 1913
A US Senator noted for his commitment to fiscal reform and ethics in government, Douglas began his working life as an economics professor at the University of Chicago in 1920, seven years after graduating from Bowdoin. In WW2 he was a decorated Marine, despite being a Quaker!
Photo Recap: Greenstock’s Celebration of Music, Food, and Zero Waste
Each year students who work for Bowdoin Sustainability organize Greenstock as a way for students to gather outside, hear live music, get their bikes tuned for free, and learn about student clubs with an environmental bent.
Mingling Among Art: A Student Night at the Museum
Close to the start of each academic year, Student Activities traditionally throws a semi-formal party for students at the Museum of Art.
Who Will Help the Country? Serving the Common Good Through Public Service
The Bowdoin Public Service Initiative aims to inspire students to consider pursuing what can be fascinating and purposeful work in service to the country.
Dorn’s Book on Education Praised in Top History Journal
Historian Julie Reuben closes her review with this observation: “Dorn’s book is a gift to us. It is a model for combining analytical breadth and complexity and of using the particular to illuminate the general. It is now the best single-volume history of American higher education available.”
Bowdoin’s Rudalevige: Anonymous Op-Ed “a National Security Concern”
“A weak president can still command. And if he doesn’t trust his staff, the chances that those commands will be well-informed diminish accordingly,” writes Rudalevige in The Washington Post’s political science blog The Monkey Cage.
New Concentration Gives Nature-Minded Students an Academic Home
Beginning this fall, the biology department is offering an Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB) concentration for students who want to study the land, ocean, forest, lakes, and rivers of Maine and beyond.
Year Up Founder Gerald Chertavian ’87, P’20, P’22 Discusses United Partnership on CNBC
Year Up founder and CEO Gerald Chertavian says he is hopeful that a new partnership with United Airlines will help close the “opportunity divide” that exists for millions of young adults seeking better employment.