News and Events
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Research, Publications, Awards, and More: Highlights from a Semester of Faculty Achievements
Through new books, papers published in journals, media appearances, and more, Bowdoin faculty members complemented their time in the classroom during the fall semester with a variety of scholarly and artistic contributions. -
Interdisciplinary Exhibition Highlights Ecological Change on a Maine Island
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art hosts an exhibition bringing together biology, history, and art history to explore the changing landscape of Monhegan Island over the centuries and how that change has been portrayed by artists. -
Media Highlights Schiller Center, Bowdoin Senior’s Efforts to Restore Maine Eelgrass
Biology major Lucy Dutton ’25 works with the Schiller Coastal Studies Center as part of a regional collaboration to restore Casco Bay’s degraded eelgrass habitat. The marine plant is vital to the health of the ecosystem. -
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From Polygonal Billiard Tables to Racism in Jazz, Faculty Grants Support a Variety of Research Projects
Scholars representing a wide array of disciplines benefitted from grant funding during the spring semester. From math to music, from neuroscience to environmental studies, from biology to oceanography, Bowdoin faculty are pursuing pioneering research. -
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Faculty Awards Boost Research and Teaching of the Environment from Different Perspectives
Five scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, and STEM subjects have been awarded prestigious federal grants in recent months to help them pursue a range of projects and activities, all related in different ways to environmental issues. -
Marine Biologist Gina Lonati ’12 Uses the Sea and Sky to Study and Protect Right Whales
On the fall semester’s last day of classes, Gina Lonati ’12 spoke to a crowded room in Druckenmiller Hall about her research on endangered North Atlantic right whales. It is estimated that only 200 still roam the seas. -
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Summer Fellows Embrace Kent Island Life in Stewardship Program
After graduating in May this year, Charlie O’Brien and Reed Warburton decided they weren’t quite done with College yet and chose to spend the summer at the Bowdoin Scientific Station (BSS) on Kent Island, learning how to live off the grid. -
CBC Series Spotlights How Kent Island Became a Thriving Scientific Sanctuary
To those in the know, the Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island is an oasis of opportunity—two hundred acres of lush nature serving as the backdrop and the raw material for students to do hands-on research. The scientific sanctuary recently found itself in the spotlight before a broader audience, thanks to a series of reports airing on the CBC. -
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Roger Wilder ’25 Receives NOAA Scholarship to Study Our Changing Oceans
The biology major is just one of 120 undegraduates to win an Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship, which offers college tuition support and a summer internship with a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facility. -
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Schiller Coastal Studies Center Hosts Open House
A steady November rain couldn’t deter more than sixty-five hardy Mainers from attending an open house at the Schiller Coastal Studies Center on November 13. The first such event in the new facilities on Orrs Island attracted neighbors, potential students and families, and Bowdoin alumni, staff, and faculty.