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Last Thursday, students, faculty and community members gathered in Kresge Auditorium for a lecture from Cas Holman, a New York-based designer and author.
The lecture, titled “The Power of Play,” is part of the many academic talks hosted by the …
Should Bowdoin continue to honor former Sen. George Mitchell by having Hawthorne-Longfellow Library’s Special Collections and Archives named after him?
My question is prompted by the University of Maine (UMaine)’s announcement last week that they are renaming all campus programs …
Last Friday, Elias McEaneney ’27 unveiled his Student Voices collection, “Working / Out / Gender,” in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library (H-L). The collection’s focus is on the intersection of labor and gender, an area of study that McEaneney has been interested in …
Both Hatch Science Library and Hawthorne-Longfellow Library (H-L) received small updates to increase usability and accessibility over the summer. Changes to H-L include a new Quiet Cave, a fidget lending library, a refurbished classroom and study pods in the basement, …
Editor’s Note, Saturday, March 28 at 8:02 a.m.: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the Mitchell Institute announced a name change. The Mitchell Institute instead wrote that they planned to initiate a process to consider a potential …
“While Bowdoin enjoys national recognition as a top liberal arts college, the workers who sustain its day-to-day operations struggle to make their voices heard,” an anonymous library employee wrote in the Winter 2024 issue of The Bowdoin Orient Magazine.
It’s …
When visitors walk into Bowdoin’s Hawthorne-Longfellow library, they are greeted by a shelf housing the Student Voices Collection, an annual opportunity for a student to curate an exhibition on identity.
This year’s show, curated by Kanene Nwokeji ’26, marks the …
An exhibit party took place on October 7 to celebrate the work of the spring 2025 cohort of the Black Biography course. The class, taught by Professor of Africana Studies and English Tess Chakkalakal, introduced students to the genre of …
Last Friday, community members gathered on the second floor of the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library to celebrate the opening of the fall 2025 exhibit, “From Club to Cause: Student Groups and the Politics of Voice at Bowdoin.”
The exhibit, a compilation of …
After closing its spring 2025 exhibition “Before They Were Famous: The Student Days of the Class of 1825,” Hawthorne-Longfellow Library has transformed the show in digital form through a collaboration with Information Technology.
Through the Omeka-S publishing platform, online visitors …
