Growth Spurt: Bowdoin Senior’s Aquaponics Farm to Triple Production with $1.6M Investment
After wrapping up months of travel to meet with potential investors, Trevor Kenkel ’18 has announced he has raised $1.6 million to expand his Springworks Farm in Lisbon, Maine.
The Start of Something Better
She longed for a connection with her grandfather, whose early life was mostly a mystery to her. A chance encounter on campus last fall changed that.
Q&A with Dana Spector ’08
Literary rights agent Dana Spector ’08 on the power of studying history and the work of finding stories well-suited for the screen. What’s your favorite book-to-screen adaptation? Movies I cite quite a bit include Little Women (1994), which came out when I was obsessed with that novel and really evoked all the right emotions for […]
As Maine Goes
Maine’s natural beauty is so extensive that you might forget it was not so long ago that much of the landscape was smelly, dirty, and even dangerous.
Bowdoin Scientist Discovering New Ways to Make Breakthrough Medicines
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Benjamin Gorske has won one of the National Science Foundation’s most distinguished research awards, the CAREER grant, given to faculty relatively early in their careers.
Nature Moments: Outsmarting Squirrels
Why is it so hard to keep squirrels off birdfeeders? After all, they’re just rodents with brains the size of a ping-pong ball.
Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas at Bowdoin: Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
During his visit, reporter and activist Jose Antonio Vargas said, “I think we really need to insist on that at a time when it is much easier for people to surround yourself with others who agree with you, who agree with all the words you use, your point of view and your prism. And it is much harder to hold spaces with people who challenge you.”
Sen. George J. Mitchell ’54, H’83 Writes of the ‘Life-Changing’ Value of Higher Education in Boston Globe
In an op-ed for The Boston Globe, former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell writes of the value of higher education amid the criticism that has emerged around the recent tax on college and university endowments.