The History of the Breakfast Sandwich and the Politics of Hummus
Jane Brox, a visiting professor who taught the food writing course this spring, said her intention designing the class was to encourage students to develop their writing style by focusing on a subject they cared about. “I wanted the students to learn how to create a voice on the page that could both accommodate a personal narrative and research,” she said.
Behind the Cases: Student Curators Prepare for Upcoming Exhibition, “A Handheld History”
Three Bowdoin students, Amber Orosco ’19, Stephen Pastoriza ’19, and Benjamin Wu ’18, discuss creating the upcoming exhibition “A Handheld History: Five Centuries of Medals from the Molinari Collection at Bowdoin College”
Welcome to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art Summer Interns
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art welcomes eleven Bowdoin student interns to the team this summer.
Interview with Derek Bermal, Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and faculty, Bowdoin International Music Festival
An Interview with Derek Bermal, Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and composer-in-residence, Bowdoin International Music Festival, as he plans for a new project at the Museum of Art this summer.
Bethany Berhanu ’20 Looks at Mental Illness in Japanese Pop Culture
Intrigued by the origins of anime, a form of storytelling that she loves, Bethany Berhanu ’20 visited [which museum?] recently to check out a series of images etched onto 12-century Japanese scrolls. She recalls her amazement at seeing how the scrolls could tell entire stories with just a few images, and realized that these ancient […]
Making Space
Photos by Bob Handelman Bowdoin’s campus is steeped in history, and most alumni know at least a few key places: that was Longfellow’s room; that’s where Harriet Beecher Stowe worked on Uncle Tom’s Cabin; and this is where Martin Luther King Jr. gathered to talk with Bowdoin students after he spoke at First Parish Church. […]
Bowdoin Pride on Display Across the Country
More than eighty people connected to Bowdoin marched in the New York City Pride March this weekend, following big showings from Bowdoin alumni, students, staff, and parents at recent pride events in Boston, Portland, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
A New Line of Thinking
Technology is so integrated into our daily lives that many of us barely contemplate it. We don’t think about how our GPS determines when to tell us to turn left; we just know we don’t have to ask for directions as long as we have a street address. But technology is changing more than our daily routines—it is affecting industry and our economy, influencing our politics and our points of view, and changing medicine, transportation, and nearly any field you can think of