Nature Moments: Stripes Between Tides
In animals, stripes serve to provide camouflage or warn predators. At the scale of landscapes, stripes reveal differences among plants in animals in their ability to deal with difficult environments, predation, or competition for space.
‘Bowdoin Votes’ Launches Big Effort to Register Students
“Right now there is a national awakening that colleges have a responsibility to do more about civic engagement and voting,” McKeen Center’s Andrew Lardie said.
Transition, Memory, and Histories of Violence in North Africa: A Comparison
History scholar Idriss Jebari looks at political unrest in North Africa in recent years, and examines why some regimes survive, and some don’t.
Bags, Hugs, Tents: The Class of 2022 Arrives
Residential Life staff, who had been waiting at the dorm entrances, rushed to meet arriving first-year students and their families, opening trunks and grabbing bags even before parents could hop out of their seats.
In Faculty Labs, Students Help Pave the Way for Potential Medicines
In the brightly lit labs of Druckenmiller Hall, several Bowdoin faculty are in the midst of contributing to this cumulative, collaborative process, helping to forge new insights into biochemistry. Their research won’t necessarily provide a direct link from pure science to newfangled drug, but they are making important contributions to knowledge that could one day abet the creation of cures.
Puccini Goes to the Movies: How Cinema Influenced Italian Opera
You probably wouldn’t associate the works of Giacomo Puccini with cinema, says opera scholar Christy Thomas, but this would be a mistake: this period of Italian opera is much more influenced by movies than one might think, she argues.
Christy Thomas Script: Puccini and the Cinema
When it comes to comparing opera and cinema, Christy Thomas says the widely accepted view is that when the movies came along, they took what they wanted from the world of opera, and then supplanted it as a dominant art form. However, she points out, this fails to account for the fact that opera still […]
Bowdoin’s Brian Purnell Reminds Us of the North’s Racist Past
Brian Purnell and his co-author argue that understanding racism in America in 2018 requires an examination of the history of racist practices and ideologies in both the South and the North.