Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies Christopher Heurlin shares his thoughts on the origins of the long-standing trade dispute between Washington and Beijing. In an interview with ...

The ecological behavior of crayfish may sound like a very specific field of study, but it has important wider implications regarding the ways climate change could impact the environment, said Sophia ...

Bowdoin's Environmental Studies (ES) program is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, a milestone that is galvanizing faculty, staff, and students to reflect on what it means to study and teach the ...

In the summer of 1869, ten white men, led by a one-armed naturalist and Civil War veteran called John Wesley Powell, set off from Wyoming in four boats on a thousand-mile river journey. Their mission, ...

Biology professor Patty Jones is tapping into seventy years of data from the Bowdoin College Scientific Station (BSS) on Kent Island to spearhead a National Science Foundation-funded project. Under ...

Parents and families showed up for their students en masse amid a beautiful fall weekend full of activity and togetherness. Against a backdrop of beautiful fall foliage and with unseasonably warm ...

Senior Yusur Jasim is set to graduate this May with a teaching certificate from Bowdoin Teacher Scholars. They credit their high school teacher, Matt Bernstein ’13, for helping set them down this path ...

Sills Hall, a hub for the study of languages and cinema, has been largely untouched, beyond routine maintenance, since its original construction in 1950. The new floorplans include nine classrooms and ...

This summer we are launching a series about the humanities, examining why Bowdoin faculty are committed to teaching literature, languages, the arts, history, philosophy, and religion—and how students ...

Four faculty from various disciplines have collaborated to teach a groundbreaking class: a deep dive into the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and the role that ethics plays as this emerging ...

Whether in artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, or genetic engineering, businessman John McQuillan Jr. ’87 has serious concerns about the current rapid rate of scientific progress. “[S]cience ...

As “Oscar” the walrus completed what was probably his final journey, there was relief and excitement among staff and faculty at Bowdoin’s newest facility, the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic ...