Whispering Pines: Please Hand in Your Blue Books
As the fall 2017 semester comes to an end, John Cross ’76, secretary of development and college relations and de facto Bowdoin historian, offers perhaps “the most unfair exam ever offered” here, as it arrives without warning and with no advance preparation on your part. Test your Bowdoin knowledge and take a journey through the College’s history.
Idahoan Cooper Dart ’21 Describes Heartbreak Over Loss of Public Lands
When Cooper Dart’s beloved Craters of the Moon National Monument was under threat, “[i]t felt as if Zinke wanted to strip this value, this blood and awe, from both myself and future generations,” he writes.
Conor Williams ’05 Looks at Trump’s America ‘Through the Fearful but Still Hopeful Eyes’ of His Former Brooklyn Student
Former first-grade teacher Conor Williams ’05, now a senior researcher at think tank New America, writes of President Trump’s America, as seen through the eyes of one his former students at a Brooklyn elementary school and his friends.
Do Better Educated High School Teachers Improve College Graduation Rates?
Bowdoin education professor Doris Santoro tells the Bangor Daily News there are factors beyond the classroom that affect how successful high school students are when they go on to college.
Laurence Pope ’67 Talks About Role, and Future, of State Department
Former diplomat Pope was a guest on Maine Public Radio’s weekday call-in program Maine Calling, along with former ambassador to Haiti and Gambia, Pamela White.
2017 Season’s Greetings From Bowdoin
In case you missed it, President Clayton Rose and his wife, Julianne, sent season’s greetings to the Bowdoin community in the form of a sweet video starring our own Polar Bear.
Processing Admissions: Bowdoin’s Dean Soule Explains Denials and Deferrals
Whitney Soule joined colleagues from Amherst and the University of Albany-SUNY to talk deferral and rejection on YouTube and Facebook.
Nature Moments: A Deer’s Day
Biology professor Nat Wheelwright explains how to look for signs of deer in the woods.