On Monday afternoon, Jenik Radon, an adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, delivered a talk in Hubbard Hall titled “Sirens Singing of the ‘Riches’ of Deep Sea Mining in the Pacific.” The talk discussed the risks …
On Wednesday afternoon in Hubbard Hall, President of the Maine State Senate Mattie Daughtry (D-Cumberland) spoke to students at an event organized by the McKeen Center for the Common Good. Daughtry, whose senate district includes her hometown of Brunswick, began …
On Saturday, sociologist, professor and MacArthur Fellow Tressie McMillan Cottom delivered Bowdoin’s annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture in Kanbar Auditorium, speaking about the current political environment and events that have already defined 2026. McMillan Cottom is …
On Monday afternoon, the College hosted a “Know Your Rights” event for students, faculty and staff. Members of the Bowdoin community filled Kresge Auditorium to hear from Zach Heiden ’95, chief counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of …
On Tuesday night, former Baltimore Ravens lineman John Urschel delivered a lecture on Gaussian elimination, a system of solving linear equations, in Kresge Auditorium. Urschel, who is now a math professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, played in the …
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 Wednesday night, guests gathered in Kresge Auditorium for an event sponsored by Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, titled “Where Do We Go From Here?” Students spoke on the past and future of Israeli-Palestinian relations and Zionism as …
On Wednesday evening, author and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism professor Howard French presented a talk in Kresge Auditorium titled “Right in the Thick of It: Africa’s Uncredited Role at the Heart of Our History.” French explored how Africa …
Bowdoin students and community members joined Imam Dr. Khalil Abdur-Rashid on Thursday night in Kresge Auditorium for a talk titled “Understanding Islam, Muslims in America and Islamophobia.” Abdur-Rashid, a chaplain at Harvard University, instructor at the Divinity School and lecturer …
On Tuesday afternoon, author and director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate Ken Stern delivered a talk titled “Hate, Memory, Binary Thinking and the Future of Democracy” in Kresge Auditorium. The talk was the fourth in the …