Students Organize Hurricane, Earthquake Relief
In the weeks following the disaster, she and other Puerto Rican students, along with members of the Latin American Student Organization (LASO) and other student groups, have begun organizing to make sure that the Bowdoin community is aware of the string of disasters in the Caribbean and Mexico.
Alexa Staley ’11 ‘Beyond Excited’ to Have Been Involved in Nobel-Winning LIGO Project
The news that three prominent American scientists had won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work in detecting gravitational waves was particularly exciting for Alexa Staley ’11. As a grad student Columbia she worked at the Laser-Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory, known as LIGO, which in 2015 detected gravitational waves for the first time.
Whispering Pines: One Hearth, Many Lives
Bowdoin’s oldest building—Massachusetts Hall—turned 215 this year. In the latest installment of Whispering Pines, John Cross ’76 explains how no other building on campus has served more functions or undergone a greater number of modifications over the years.
Bowdoin’s Gibbons Searches for Answers to North Korea Nuclear Question
Writing in an op-ed for the Portland Press Herald, Gibbons said the North Korea crisis “is a different scenario from the Cold War, when both sides maintained a secure second-strike capability.” The lack of such a capability by the North Koreans, she warned, could give leader Kim Jong Un “strong incentive to use his nuclear weapons before the US could destroy them.”
Public Intellectuals Arthur Brooks and Frank Bruni: Face to Face if not Eye to Eye
Many subjects were covered, including the debate over NFL players and the national anthem, the argument over ideological diversity in the workplace sparked by Google’s decision to fire one of its employees, and the discussion over whether college campuses should make efforts to be “conservative-friendly.” Questions from students covered issues like global warming, free speech, and economic inequality.
Historian Laqueur Visits Bowdoin to Discuss the Work of the Dead
The work of Thomas Laqueur, who is University of California Berkeley’s Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History, spans so many academic disciplines that, during his Bowdoin visit last week, he visited an anthropology class to discuss dogs and humanitarianism; a Francophone studies class to talk about sexual difference, and he stopped into the art history seminar Ghastly Beauty: Images of Mortality and Their Lessons for Living.
Students Reflect on Being Religious at Bowdoin
Though the panelists came from a broad range of religious traditions and understood their own spiritualities quite differently, it became clear over the course of the talk that, by being religious at Bowdoin, they have shared a set of experiences.
Bowdoin College President Clayton Rose on the Liberal Arts: Spanish, Chinese Translations
Spanish transcript Chinese transcript Clayton Rose Presidente del Bowdoin College Acabando con el mito: Bowdoin College, las artes liberales y el camino hacia una carrera en lo que sea San Mateo, California 17 de septiembre de 2017 Estamos aquí para hablar sobre las artes liberales en el marco de una carrera, y desearía analizar un […]