To be at home in all lands…
Next time you drive cross-country, you’re sure to find a friendly face in every state. Bowdoin alumni can be found living in all 50 states (and over 70 countries.) Check out this map showing where we live, across the USA.
Preserving a Legacy: German Professor Accepts Editorship at the Goethe Yearbook
German Professor Birgit Tautz is working to celebrate change and continuity through scholarly work as the newly-appointed editor at the Goethe Yearbook.
Video: Groundbreaking Installation Turns Art Gallery into a Musical Instrument
It’s part of a collaborative, site-specific, multimedia installation involving four artists. A wall drawing, titled “Let’s Get Lost,” was created by visiting artist linn meyers, alongside an interactive sound installation, “Listening Glass.” It’s the product of a two-year collaboration with interactive and audio artists Rebecca Bray, James Bigbee Garver, and Josh Knowles.
Bringing Government to Bowdoin: Former Chief of Staff Talks to NYT’s Katie Benner ’99
Students, faculty and locals lined up early Thursday evening in the lobby of Pickard Theater to listen to New York Times writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katie Benner ’99 interview President Obama’s fourth and final White House chief of staff, Denis McDonough.
Bowdoin Orient among Nine Student Newspapers Chosen for Poynter Project
Sixty-three schools applied for the College Media Project—an initiative, now in its second year, that provides in-newsroom training, online seminars, and support for a campus project, all free of charge. Orient editor in chief Calder McHugh “extremely thrilled” to be selected.
Basking in Phytoplankton’s Glow: The Novel Marine Research of Martha Boben ’19
This summer, Martha Boben ’19 managed to ask big questions of some of the smallest creatures.
Nat Wheelwright on Maine Calling as Nature Moments Series Approaches End
Wheelwright was joined on the radio by fellow biologist Patty Jones, director of the Bowdoin Scientifc Station on Kent Island. Jones recently featured on Nature Moments, where she talked about the pollination habits of bees.
In ‘Nature,’ Bowdoin Scientist Predicts Arctic Peatland’s Warming Impacts
A team of scientists that includes Bowdoin professor Phil Camill has just released new findings on a question with significant implications for the future of the planet: how will the Earth’s peatlands, particularly the vast stretches in the Arctic, respond to global warming? Will they serve as carbon sinks or carbon sources?