Nature Moments: Color and Communication in Turtles
Animals like painted turtles use different parts of their bodies to send distinct messages. Backs and bellies are designed to mislead predators, while faces, with their fine details, advertise a turtle’s identity and quality to nearby competitors and mates.
Students Share Class Research into Race, Higher Education, and Bowdoin
In their fall sociology class, Diversity in Higher Education, students not only looked at racial issues at U.S. universities generally, but also collaborated on a final research project to investigate race specifically on Bowdoin’s campus.
18 Students Win Fulbrights to Teach or Research Abroad
This year, eighteen Bowdoin students from the class of 2018 have received Fulbright Fellowships to live abroad for one year — in Indonesia, Taiwan, Nepal, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, or Malaysia.
Artist Mariah Reading ’16 Turns Litter into Landscapes
Reading’s interest in making art that speaks to the ways humans connect to the outdoors is in harmony with parks’ interest in teaching their visitors how to care for the land and to leave no trace.
First Exhibition to Examine Painter Winslow Homer’s Use of Photography opens at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art on June 23
“Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting,” the first exhibition to look at the role of photography in Homer’s artistic practice opens at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art on June 23.
New Initiative Aims to Strengthen Cross-Cultural Teaching
Being aware of your own cultural background as well as that of your students is critical to more effective teaching and learning—that was the message explored recently by faculty taking part in the first day of the College’s four-day May Institute.
Seeing the Forest: A Q&A with John Rensenbrink
As he prepares to turn ninety in August, Bowdoin professor emeritus John Rensenbrink just published his most important book.
Did You Know?: Running the World
Kelly Allen McLay ’02 ran seven marathons on seven continents in seven days.