Madeleine King ’19 Spends Thanksgiving At Sea, Down Under
King is carrying out environmental research during a six-week voyage in New Zealand waters with a group of undergraduates from throughout the US.
Behind the Scenes of a Bowdoin Thanksgiving
In the days leading up to Bowdoin’s famously anticipated Thanksgiving meal, which is always held the Thursday before students leave for Thanksgiving break, Bowdoin’s dining staff begins to prepare.
Trustee Alvin Hall ’74 Honored With Journalistic Award
Hall reflects on discrimination and poverty as he revisits his old high school forty-five years later, in an award-winning radio feature honored by the New York Association of Black Journalists
Rick Wilson receives Inaugural Education and the Common Good Award
Wilson is the Community Outreach Coordinator and a service learning teacher at the high school, and most recently, is the inaugural recipient of the Education and the Common Good Award. Educators “have a lifetime of work to do… And embracing that journey, that is something that Rick models every day.”
Acclaimed Mexican Writers Discuss Art in Times of Crisis
The event was framed as a chance to discuss the ways writers and filmmakers are attempting to find new aesthetic ways of describing the ever more chaotic happenings of our times.
Dana Spector ’08 Makes Hollywood Reporter’s ‘Up-and-Coming’ Execs List
Dana Spector, Class of 2008, has been named a “mogul in the making” by The Hollywood Reporter in its 24th annual list of entertainment insiders under 35 — e.g., the agents, managers, publicists, lawyers, and executives who will “soon run the industry.”
The Art of Charlotte Borden ’19 and Her Students, All Former Correctional Facility Residents
This summer, funded by the Thomas A. McKinley ’06 and Hannah Weil McKinley ’08 Summer Fellowship, Charlotte Borden ’19 taught art classes to a class of six residents at a minimum-security prison in Maine. Their stories are what she sought to promote at a recent art opening at the Lamarche Gallery in the Smith Union.
Nature Moments: Fungi on the Move
In the latest Nature Moments video, Anne T, and Robert M. Bass Professor of Natural Sciences Nat Wheelwright explains how fungi disperse their offspring—which in some cases involves producing a smell like rotten meat!