The Naturalist’s Notebook: Making Everyday Connections to Nature through Journal-Keeping
The book, a brainchild of biology professor Nat Wheelwright, urges people to pay more attention to their natural surroundings and record what they see in a five-year journal.
Visiting Psychology Professor Parker-Guilbert Discusses Happiness on Maine Public Radio
How do you define happiness? How can we achieve it? How can we measure it? Parker-Guilbert says psychologists are currently grappling with the question of how to measure happiness objectively.
Arctic Museum Releasing Donald MacMillan’s Historic Films of Greenland
Filmed in the 1920s, this portrayal of the Inuit performing day-to-day activities like hunting, sewing, traveling by dog sled, repairing tools and caring for children, makes these motion pictures unique.
Busting the Myth: Bowdoin College, the Liberal Arts, and the Path to a Career in Anything
Five alumni working in various fields within the tech sector help make the point that a liberal arts education can take you anywhere.
Bowdoin Mobile App is Your Guide to Homecoming and Family Weekend
The schedules of events, campus maps, facility hours and the ever-helpful FAQs are all in the palm of your hand as you plan for and enjoy Homecoming (October 13-15) and Family Weekend (October 27-29).
Bowdoin Art Society, Helmreich House Celebrate World Cyanotype Day
Sam Brill-Weil ’20 spearheaded Helmreich house’s World Cyanotype Day workshop on Sunday, October 1. “I wanted to bring this process to Bowdoin,” he said. “When people think of photography, they think of disposable cameras, dark rooms, iPhones. But photography started out completely differently. Bowdoin has the facilities for cyanotype, and I wanted to show that.”
No Longer a Trivial Pursuit: Using Games to Teach History
Can games teach history? This fall, a new, innovative course is investigating that question. History professor and lifelong gamer Patrick Rael is helping sixteen upper-level students examine American history, from the era of exploration through the Civil War, through the medium of tabletop games.
Hannah Cooke ’18 Leads New Athletes of Color Coalition
The Bowdoin Athletes of Color Coalition, which Hannah Cooke ’18 founded last year, brings student-athletes of color together to reflect on their experiences playing sports. The group is, first and foremost, a network of students who can “work off of each other and explore what is challenging us, and maybe be more reflective about things that were said, how situations were dealt with, and how we coped with certain challenges,” Cooke said.