International Student Spotlight: Mishal Kazmi ’21
Mishal Kazmi ’21 from Pakistan says “it feels like I’m a part of two very different worlds, and there’s little chance they’ll ever completely meet.”
Looking for Tiny Minerals in Greece to Explain how Earth Functions
A small team of Bowdoin researchers have just returned from northern Greece, where they were scouring three of the best sites in the world for clues into a great geological phenomenon that is still not widely understood.
Nature Moments: Getting to Know Bug Spit
You never know what you’re going to find inside a gob of spit in a meadow. If you’re lucky, it might be a young spittlebug. Don’t be squeamish about examining their spit, says biology professor Nat Wheelwright. It has some fascinating qualities.
Sidelined by Injuries, Senior Proves a Natural with the Microphone
David Peck is the lead broadcaster with the Newport Gulls baseball team this summer. The job was made possible by a funded internship grant from Bowdoin’s Career Planning Center.
Connor Downs ’20 is Spending his Summer Investigating Homicides
This summer, Connor Downs is interning with the Massachusetts State Police Homicide Investigations unit, supported by a funded internship grant from Bowdoin.
The Staying Power of ABBA: Bowdoin’s McMullen on the ‘Tribute Band Factor’
Music critics hated them, but that didn’t matter. Four-and-a-half decades after they first came to global prominence, the Swedish supergroup ABBA is proving unstoppable. The music professor is quoted in a Smithsonian.com article on the band’s enduring popularity.
Senior Spends Summer Working for Electoral Reform
Benjamin Ratner ’19 has lofty goals for his summer internship: he wants to help bring about structural reform to our political system. He working for FairVote, a nonprofit that advocates for ranked choice voting and other measures which he believes will enhance the democratic process.
Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy
Everyone knows that computers didn’t come along until the second half of the last century, right? Well, maybe not, says professor Arielle Saiber. There were computers in Renaissance Italy, she informs us, but these computers were people!