Standing inside the Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies, I cannot help but be reminded of the parallels with the Walker Art Building, dating back to the Gilded Age. At Gibbons’s entrance, and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s (BCMA) original, …
Last week, Brunswick Public Art (BPA) announced that a design had been selected for an art installation along the Androscoggin River to honor the Frank J. Wood Bridge, slated for demolition later this year. The winning design was created by …
Last night, retired Lieutenant Colonel Katie Petronio ’07 and United States Marine Corps (USMC) ground intelligence officer Quincy Leech ’17 returned to campus to reflect on their service and deployment in the Marines. Gill Barndollar ’04, a former USMC infantry …
On Tuesday night, Democrat Zohran Mamdani ’14 was elected as the next mayor of New York City, making him the first Muslim and South Asian mayor in the city’s history.
Mamdani’s win in the largest city in the United States …
In 2010, a young Zohran Kwame Mamdani ’14 stepped foot on Bowdoin’s campus as a first-year student, and now, just 15 years later, he is the Democratic mayoral nominee for New York City, the largest city in the United States.…
On Wednesday night, Dr. Teona Williams ’12 spoke to a crowded room of students, professors and community members in Mills Hall. Her talk, titled, “When Hunger was the Disaster: The Politics of Hunger and Food Justice in the Mississippi Delta,” …
The College recently announced a financial pledge by David and Charlotte Willner ’06 that will launch the Bowdoin Innovators Group (BIG) as a new avenue for donations to the College. The BIG’s membership will consist of entrepreneurs from the Bowdoin …
Eleanor Morrell met her husband Richard (Dick) Morrell ’50 during a formal dance at Westbrook Junior College, now the University of New England, in 1947. Two years after he graduated from Bowdoin, the couple moved to Brunswick, where Eleanor still …
On Tuesday night, civil rights activist, educator and organizer DeRay Mckesson ’07 H’21 spoke to a packed Kresge Auditorium at a panel entitled “One Act at a Time: Leading at Bowdoin and Beyond.” Mckesson, sitting in conversation with two students, …
On Monday, President Safa Zaki announced a $50 million donation from Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings ’83 to propel the College toward the forefront of liberal arts institutions engaging with artificial intelligence (AI). With this unprecedented gift, the College will launch …