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Artificial Intelligence
Faculty discuss summer news, artificial intelligence at meeting
Faculty and administrators convened in Mills Hall last Friday for their first meeting of the year to discuss, among other topics, national news affecting the College and student use of artificial intelligence (AI).
In her report to the faculty near …
Artificial Intelligence
Bowdoin buys institutional access to premium models of generative AI companies
The College is now offering students, staff and faculty access to premium models of five generative artificial intelligence (AI) companies, as of early August.
Bowdoin’s Office of Information Technology (IT) has made the models available through LibreChat, an open-source application …
News in Brief
BPD arrests two men for shouting racial slurs at students
On Tuesday evening, the Brunswick Police Department (BPD) arrested two men following a report by students that the men threatened and shouted racial slurs at them from a pickup truck on Longfellow Avenue. Bowdoin Safety and Security officers responded shortly …
Lecture
Dr. Dawa Lokyitsang discusses Tibet under Chinese colonialism
This past Monday, Dr. Dawa Lokyitsang, a Tibetan-American anthropologist, visited Bowdoin to deliver a talk on Tibetan kinship ties under Chinese colonialism. In the face of this colonialism, many Tibetans immigrated to Dharamsala, India, where the exiled Tibetan leader, the …
Lecture
Shah speaks on public health in Kates Lecture
Last night, Dr. Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, spoke at the Arnold D. Kates Lecture on the future of global public health from the perspectives of lessons he has learned throughout his extensive career in public service, foreign …
Safety and Security
College codifies Help Seeking Policy on alcohol and cannabis emergencies
This summer, the College added the “Help Seeking Policy” to its Code of Community Standards. The policy, which officially codifies a practice that has existed informally, protects students from disciplinary responses for reporting medical emergencies resulting from alcohol or cannabis …
New Senior Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs joins Bowdoin administration
After a nationwide search, the College named Martin Mbugua as the new senior vice president for communications and public affairs this past summer—succeeding Scott Hood, who retired from the position after nearly 36 years at Bowdoin.
At the College, Mbugua …
ResLife
Whitney Hogan moves up in Student Affairs restructuring; SJ Tinker now director of ResLife
Beginning on July 1, former Director of Residential Life Whitney Hogan ’07 assumed the new title of Chief of Staff for Student Affairs and Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs for Community Life. SJ Tinker ’13 has replaced Hogan as …