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Lonnie Hackett ’14 Wins Truman Scholarship

Lonnie Hackett ’14 is one of 62 college juniors from around the country who has won a prestigious Truman Scholarship, which is given to promising students pursuing careers in government, public...

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Sainsbury Honored With 2013 Dougan Award

Illinois Wesleyan Associate Professor of English Alison Sainsbury has been named the third recipient of the James D. Dougan Award for Contributions to Faculty Governance.  This award honors the late...

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Prof. Eugene Gloria Wins 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry

Eugene Gloria, associate professor of English at DePauw University, is the recipient of the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for poetry for My Favorite Warlord. Announced today, the Anisfield-Wolf Awards...

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Drone touches down on campus

With the tap of a touchscreen, four propellers whirred to life and launched the drone two stories high above Bucknell University’s campus. At the helm of his iPad-based control panel, Professor of...

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Division III: A Study of Stream Temperatures

Recent changes in the earth’s climate are having profound effects on the planet’s natural systems. The melting of polar ice caps, rising oceans, and hotter temperatures may be more widely publicized,...

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Video: Bowdoin Raises More Than $42K at 8th Annual Relay For Life

This year, 462 participants raised $42,419.60 at Bowdoin’s 2013 Relay for Life, an-all night fundraising event that took place April 19 in Farley Field House. The Relay is an annual event sponsored...

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Grant Awarded to Professor Asuman Aksoy Will Help Teens Unlock the Beauty of...

Asuman Aksoy, the Crown Professor of Mathematics and George R. Roberts Fellow, has been awarded a grant from the Mathematical Association of America’s Tensor-SUMMA Program. The purpose of this program...

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Paul Maruyama Honored with Japanese Imperial Decoration

Paul K. Maruyama, a lecturer in Japanese in the German, Russian and East Asian languages department at Colorado College and president of the Japan America Society of Southern Colorado, has been named a...

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A Chronicle of Higher Education “Flipping Revolution”

Steven Neshyba, professor of chemistry, published a Chronicle of Higher Education essay this week, about his experiment with “flipping” his chemistry class to try to enhance student learning. The...

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Yarbrough Wins Prestigious Award for Book on Presidency

Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition (University Press of Kansas, 2012), the latest book by Jean Yarbrough, professor of government and Bowdoin’s Gary M. Pendy Sr. Professor of...

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Simulating the Senate: Classics Course Immerses Students in Roman History and...

“All in favor?” says Lucius Manlius, surveying a sea of raised hands in the Roman senate. “Thus granted. Sweet.” Manlius, a.k.a. Bowdoin senior Luke Lamar, was recently elected as consul by his fellow...

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Rollins Professor Receives Fulbright Grant to Research Economic and Global...

Rollins College Assistant Professor of International Business Tonia Warnecke was recently awarded a Fulbright grant to research economic and global development. This fall, she will study at McGill...

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Benjamin earns NEH grant for research

St. Olaf College Assistant Professor of Religion Mara Benjamin has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the research for her current project, titled Selves in...

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Bowdoin Seniors Win Fulbright Teaching, Language Study Grants

Setting out for their first year as Bowdoin graduates, Fulbright recipients Samantha Burns, Daniel Ertis, Uchechi Esonu, RaiNesha Miller and Erin St. Peter will travel to far-off places around the...

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Three Bowdoin Seniors Receive Fulbright Research Grants

Three Bowdoin seniors, Kacey Berry, Jacob Blum and Emma Cutler, have received Fulbright grants to do research next year in foreign countries. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is designed to increase...

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