News Archive 2009-2018

‘Voices From the Past’: Convocation 2017 Remarks by Dean of Student Affairs Timothy Foster

Just next door to where we are gathered today stands Massachusetts Hall—Bowdoin’s first building. It opened 215 years ago in September 1802. Back then, it was Bowdoin’s only building, and it not only served as classroom space. It’s also where the eight members of the Class of 1806 lived—for a time with President McKeen and his […]

Convocation 2017 Address: Professor of Government Michael Franz

Promoting Empiricism in the Age of Alternative Facts Thank you, President Rose; and thank you for the chance to speak before my colleagues on the faculty and staff, before guests, and especially before the Class of 2021.  I’m humbled by the chance to talk with you today. Let me say first that my thoughts and […]

Rudalevige Discusses Presidential Pardon Issue on National Media

Rudalevige said Trump’s action is unlike most other presidential pardons in that it “is substantively out of step with the … foundational American concept of ‘a government of laws and not of men.'”

Johna Cook, Class of 2019

Johna Cook ’19 speaks about upcoming exhibition “Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality”

Johna Cook, class of 2019, speaks about the upcoming exhibition “Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality” at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Finial of a "Chaplet," France or southern Netherlands, ca. 1530. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Peering into “The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe”: A Semester of Reflections Ahead

In celebration of “The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe” at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the fall semester features an exciting spectrum of programs that will offer fresh insight into the rise of the memento mori in early Renaissance Europe.

Ruth Fine, former curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Interview with Ruth Fine by Juliette Dankens’18

Ruth Fine, former curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, will speak about works on paper in “Appreciating Paper: Art’s Best Supporting Actor”, on Thursday, August 31st at 4:30 pm in Kresge Auditorium. Juliette Dankens ’18 recently interviewed Ruth about her work with drawings.

To Take or Not to Take? Class of 2021 Attends Academic Fair

Faced with dozens of booths manned by faculty members, the class of 2021 had to start thinking about what, for some, is a difficult decision: which classes to take.

Sam Brody ’92 Shares Houston Flooding Insight on NBC Nightly News

Sam Brody ’92, director of the Center for Texas Beaches and Shores at Texas A&M University, was part of NBC Nightly News coverage of the flooding in Houston, Texas.