For Assistant Professor of History Caylin Carbonell, history is powerful not just in the way it informs the present, but also in its ability to illustrate human agency. In her first semester at Bowdoin, Carbonell hopes to share this approach …
Alison Smith ’28 is having a scorching start to her Bowdoin volleyball career. Notching an average of 2.75 kills per set and racking up six blocks during the team’s opening weekend in New York, Smith earned NESCAC Player of the …
In an email to the Bowdoin community yesterday, President Safa Zaki announced the formation of an ad-hoc committee focused on potential changes to the College’s investment strategies and communications about investments. The eight-member committee consists of Bowdoin faculty, staff, students …
This summer, Jim Hoppe joined the College as the new senior vice president and dean for student affairs. President Safa Zaki announced that Hoppe would replace Janet Lohmann following her retirement in an email to the campus community in May.…
On Wednesday, Professor of English at St. John’s University Steven Alvarez presented in the Shannon Room on how he uses tacos as a mechanism for exploring the importance of foodways and literacy in Mexican-American culture and traditions in his popular …
Yesterday and today, the College welcomed a record number of admitted students to campus for Bearings in Brunswick, the flagship on-campus component of the Office of Admissions’s annual Bowdoin Bearings programming. Around 340 admitted students registered to attend Bearings in …
Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) held its elections this past weekend for next year’s president and vice president positions. Eisa Rafat ’25 won the presidency with 56.94 percent of the vote, and Elliott Ewell ’27 won the vice presidency with 59.09 …
Elise Siciliano ’27 is already making her mark in her first collegiate softball season. Recently named NESCAC Softball Player of the Week—the first Bowdoin first year to receive the honor since 2018—Siciliano is ready for the rest of the season …
Yesterday afternoon, linguistic anthropologist and professor at the University of Washington Laada Bilaniuk spoke about the importance of language to Ukrainian culture and identity in her talk titled “Language and Identity in the Russo-Ukrainian War.” Bilaniuk discussed her background, her …
On Monday night, economist Frederic S. Mishkin delivered this spring’s Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Lecture in Kresge Auditorium, titled, “A Day At the Fed.” Mishkin, a professor at Columbia University, discussed his experience as a governor on the Federal Reserve …