Bowdoin continues to be a magnet for illustrious awards, with several major grants totaling more than $1.6 million awarded to faculty and programs at the College in recent months. “Every year, Bowdoin’s faculty and programs demonstrate an impressive ability to secure prestigious support and funding for a diversity of academic undertakings,” said Dean for Academic Affairs Cristle Collins Judd.

Two of the recent awards focus on science research at the College: Assistant Professor of Biology Jack Bateman won a $797,395 NSF CAREER grant to support his lab’s genetics research, education, and outreach activities, while the Beckman Scholar’s Program awarded Bowdoin $104,000 to support four mentor-student pairs undertaking research related to chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and medicine. “These awards are testament to the College’s success at combining intensive and cutting-edge research with the breadth and individual attention of an intimate liberal arts education – a quality that provides extraordinary opportunities for our students and distinguishes Bowdoin among its peers,” Judd said.

From the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bowdoin recently received $500,000 for four more years of continued participation in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, supporting the research of promising students who will bring cultural and intellectual diversity to the teaching faculties of colleges and universities, and an additional $116,000 to support a summer exchange program with the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. The College also received $150,000 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission’s “Digitizing Historical Records” program to support a three-year project to digitize the college’s Oliver Otis Howard Papers.

See the full lists of awards received by Bowdoin faculty and programs in the previous fiscal year.