These were the so-called “ghetto girls,” the female Jewish resistance fighters of World War II brought to life in a recent talk given to the Bowdoin community by best-selling author and columnist Judy ...

Her research, recently published in the Journal of Freshwater Ecology, looks at how invasive and native crayfish compete with one another for food and shelter by analyzing a body of water in northern ...

Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies Christopher Heurlin shares his thoughts on the origins of the long-standing trade dispute between Washington and Beijing. In an interview with ...

Idea Labs Each Tuesday and Thursday this semester, a dozen students filed into a classroom to discuss the 1851 novel Moby-Dick and other novels by Herman Melville. They gathered in McKeen Study, a 224 ...

A Global Community Grounded in Maine For more than twenty years, at least 10 percent of the student body has come from Maine. Currently, about 70 percent of students come from outside New England, and ...

Nazarko, who immigrated to the US from Ukraine as a child, is among forty-five successful college seniors or recent graduates chosen for the Pickering Fellowship this year, from a pool of over 1,000 ...

A Story of Environmental Justice and Health Connie Chiang, director of the Environmental Studies program and professor of history and environmental studies Within her scholarly area of ...

Salovaara also made great efforts to ensure students knew about the Maine state primary elections, which took place in March 2024, added Van Damme. “Her campus-wide plans for civic engagement were ...

Against a backdrop of beautiful fall foliage and with unseasonably warm weather, students showed their families and friends around campus to give them a glimpse of what life is like at Bowdoin. On ...

Every graduation is special, but I think this graduation is particularly so. You are the Bowdoin Class of 2024, but most of you are also from the high school Class of 2020. You graduated from high ...

Since the Bowdoin College Museum of Art received 100 extraordinary objects from the Wyvern Collection as a long-term loan, the artworks have become "an integral part of the day-to-day life of the ...

There is evidence to back her up. A 2019 New York Times article summed up research comparing the longer-term career outcomes of humanities and STEM majors (science, technology, engineering, and ...