Reporting on the Real Story of Sami Youth in Helsinki
Cheng-Chun Yu ’19 hopes his research dispels the idealized, but harmful, stereotypes many people have of Finland’s indigenous people.
International Student Spotlight: Giovanna Munguia ’21
“I love El Salvador, even though it’s not the most developed country in the world it’s still a really, really beautiful place with beautiful people!”
Where Computer Science Meets Greek Philosophy
Post-doctoral fellow in Digital and Computational Studies Fernando Nascimento brings computational techniques to the study of humanities.
Nature Moments: The Songs of Trees
If you close your eyes on a breezy day, you can identify trees just by the rustle of their leaves. Are they singing to each other? For David G. Haskell, ecologist and author of The Songs of Trees, listening closely to the distinctive voices in a forest “can ignite our curiosity and get our minds into the lives of trees.”
Looking for the Effects of Climate Change in One Forest
As a Burns summer fellow, rising junior Diana Grandas has been on the front lines of a long-running Bowdoin project to measure the effects of the changing climate on Harvard Forest.
The Making of a Greek Language App: Diakritikos
Demonstrating a fusion of two languages, a scholar and his students are combining computer code with classical Greek to create a language-learning app that will help Classics students practice accentuation—a key dimension of ancient Greek.
Introducing the Geoffrey Canada Scholars
The Geoffrey Canada Scholars program is just one piece of THRIVE, a new initiative funded by Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings ’83, to transform the Bowdoin experience for students who are the first in their families to go to college, who come from low-income backgrounds, or who are from groups traditionally underrepresented at the College.
Now Showing: ‘The Heath Hen’ and Other Early Ornithological Films of Alfred Otto Gross
Rare films documenting ornithological research done in the late 1920s and early 1930s by Bowdoin professor of biology Alfred Otto Gross, including previously unknown footage of the last surviving heath hen, have now been preserved, digitized, and published online thanks to support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.