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Number of articles: 25
First Article: September 13, 2024
Latest Article: April 4, 2025
Rin Pastor
Massachusetts Hall, the oldest building on Bowdoin’s campus, has a long and storied history full of renovations and evolving purposes. The 223-year old building was named after the state of Massachusetts, of which Maine was a part of until it …
Last Wednesday, Clinton Castro, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Information School and Department of Philosophy, discussed the technological present and used Kantian philosophy to argue that there is a need to protect others, primarily children, from the threat …
In the month since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, a flurry of executive orders with implications for higher education have left the campus community wondering about potential impacts to the College.
These orders include sudden freezes on federal …
On February 6, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) opened “Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880,” an exhibition focused on Bowdoin alumni Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne and their influence on the arts. This exhibition, …
James Joyce famously loved to celebrate his birthday—and some Bowdoin community members do too.
University of Geneva Professor Emeritus David Spurr introduced and led a reading of James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” in Hubbard Hall on Sunday, February 2 in celebration …
Last Saturday, Brunswick residents, faculty and students gathered at Studzinski Recital Hall for the College’s two-piano jazz duo concert. The performance featured Scott Martin, Bowdoin’s new jazz and pop piano instructor, and Tom Porter, a writer and multimedia producer from …
When students living in Brunswick Apartments do their laundry, walk to class or throw away their garbage, sometimes, a small, fluffy shape follows them. Although she has an owner, the “Bruns Cat” is an outdoor pet that many in the …
Last Tuesday, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) brought Dr. Karen M. Fraser, professor of art history at the University of San Francisco, to discuss the photography of Ogawa Kazumasa. His photos are currently viewable as part of the …
Last Friday, Roux Distinguished Scholar Ayana Elizabeth Johnson discussed her book “What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures” and led a panel about environmental voting.
The book presents a solutions-based framework for addressing climate change that seeks …
Yesterday, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) invited Hong Chun Zhang, a Chinese-born and Kansas-based artist, to the Visual Arts Center to discuss her piece “The Eye of the Tornado.” The work features a spiral of Zhang’s hair drawn …
