News Archive 2009-2018

Adaiah Hudgins-Lopez ’18 Creates ‘Reciprocal Storytelling’ for Hard Conversations

“I’m thinking about [reciprocal storytelling] as a tool for successful communication across difference,” Adaiah Hudgins-Lopez said, serving as a bridge across race, ethnicity, age, religion, class, geography, and other divides.

‘Looking Anew: Art and Estrangement, 1900–2000’ Features Recent Acquisitions

The Museum of Art is especially pleased to present a number of new acquisitions in the upcoming exhibition, “Looking Anew: Art and Estrangement, 1900–2000”

Art and Literature from the Collection of Artine Artinian

Opening on January 19, 2018, the exhibition “Where the Artist’s Hand Meets the Author’s Pen: Drawings from the Artine Artinian Collection,” offers a sampling of the many drawings Artinian donated to Bowdoin College.

Student Members’ Holiday Affair at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

On Friday, December 1, 2017, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. the Museum will host the Student Members’ Holiday Affair to usher in the holiday season.

Remembering Bowdoin’s Oldest Retiree, Goldie Singer (1916-2017)

Goldie Singer, Bowdoin’s oldest retiree, died on Saturday, November 25, in Brunswick, at the age of 101. From 1946 until her retirement in December of 1980, Goldie was the payroll supervisor in the business office at the College, where she was a cheerful, efficient, and welcoming presence for students, families, faculty, and staff alike.

Bowdoin Student and Hydroponic Farmer Trevor Kenkel ’18 on Advantage of Going Local

Kenkel tells the Portland Press Herald his indoor, year-round, lettuce-growing operation distributes produce locally and “eliminates a lot of potential food waste.”

Former Kent Island Directors Publish on Climate Change and Storm Petrels

Three scientists who have led the Bowdoin College Scientific Station on Kent Island at different times over the last few decades have published a new article in Global Change Biology that looks at how temperature changes affect the reproductive success of Leach’s storm petrels.

A Student Reflects on Mexican Murals and Maps

The trip came at a fitting time, since we had just finished reading Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (Signs Preceding the End of the World) by Yuri Herrera, where the protagonist, Makina, crosses the U.S./Mexico border and describes the disparities in culture and atmosphere that she feels after arriving in the U.S., a division that I could see Orozco addressing in his murals, although they were painted decades before Herrera’s book was published.