Board of Trustees Elects Three New Members
The Bowdoin College Board of Trustees elected three new members during meetings held on campus October 12-14, 2017.
Better Students, Better Teachers: Center for Learning & Teaching Expands Offerings
The mission of the Center for Learning and Teaching, which offers a range of programs and support, is to enhance student’s academic achievement and to help faculty grow as teachers.
Common Hour Speaker Anand R. Marri ’95 Urges Financial Literacy
Anand Marri visited Bowdoin to give a Common Hour talk Oct. 13 to speak about the importance of economic and financial literacy. “The point of the education…that we try to promote across the country is to create active and engaged democratic citizens, and that means you understand the economic forces that affect your lives,” he said.
Homecoming Weekend 2017: Photo Slideshow
The clouds broke for a mild and beautiful mid-October Saturday 2017 Homecoming Celebration.
Arctic Scholars Kaplan and LeMoine Share Concerns Over Whistleblower’s Resignation from Interior
In a letter to the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, Arctic scholars Susan Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine share unique insight and why they feel Joel Clement’s departure from the Department of the Interior is troubling.
Journalist and 2016 Santagata Speaker Nikole Hannah-Jones Wins ‘Genius’ Grant
The MacArthur Foundation said it chose Hannah-Jones for her work “chronicling the persistence of racial segregation in American society, particularly in education, and reshaping national conversations around education reform.”
No White Gloves: College Archives Give Students Hands-on History, Including the History of Race at Bowdoin
Each year, librarian Marieke Van Der Steenhoven scours the course catalog to pick out classes that might overlap with Bowdoin’s archives, which are vast and varied. “Bowdoin has such amazing collections, they are really remarkable,” she said.
‘Learn the Right Vocab.’ Year-Long Seminar Examines Second Language Acquisition
Lecturer Jamie Rankin of Princeton kicked off the series of events with a lecture underlining how there’s no substitute for knowledge of vocabulary when it comes to learning and teaching a foreign language.