Nature Moments: Leaf Behavior in the Cold
Have you noticed how some broad-leaved trees and shrubs in the north hold onto their leaves throughout the year, including those freezing winter months? How can these leaves survive such conditions?
One Act by Bowdoin Senior Selected for Maine Playwrights Festival
Bowdoin senior Parker Lemal’Brown’s short play, “Gesundheit,” has been selected for the upcoming Maine Playwrights Festival. After reading the 60-odd submissions this year, the festival committee selected five to be produced at the Portland Stage Company April 26 through May 5.
Mollie Friedlander ’14 Receives Stanford Scholarship for Future Leaders
Mollie Friedlander ’14, of Del Mar, Calif., has been named a Knight-Hennessy Scholar by Stanford University, a new scholarship that emphasizes scholarly success and potential, as well as leadership qualities and a compassionate desire to improve the world.
Tangible Math: Making a Link Between Clean Numbers and a Messy World
“While STEM workers can certainly drive innovation through science alone, imagine how much more innovative they could be if the pool of knowledge they draw on were wider and deeper. That occurs as part of a liberal arts education,” Catherine Roberts ’87 said at a recent campus talk.
Bowdoin’s LaVigne Awarded Research Funds to Lead Study of Gulf of Maine Acidity
The project is sharing in a near-million dollar grant to study Maine’s coastline and ocean. The funds were awarded by the Maine Sea Grant College Program.
Student Research: Turning a Love of ‘Star Wars’ into a Critical Examination of Gender
Sydney Benjamin ’19 is, of course, re-watching the films, but her conclusions are also informed by film criticism, gender theory, interviews, and critical essays that examine the role of religion and philosophy in Star Wars. And while the pool of research on gender in Star Wars is limited, some of the most surprising conclusions Benjamin has come to are about male friendships.
‘The Secret Story of a Terrible Love:’ A Love Story Masquerading as a Crime Novel
Prof. Nadia Celis’s research casts a new light on Gabriel García Márquez’s classic crime novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold. She’s planning a collaboration with the Theater and Dance department to tell the story.
Three Things Sara Dickey Wants You To Know about Her Latest Book ‘Living Class in Urban India’ — And the Cool Honor It Just Received
Professor of Anthropology Sara Dickey’s latest book, Living Class in Urban India, has been honored by the Association for Asian Studies.