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Top 10 Food Documentaries (Good)
Inspired by the just-released film A Place at the Table, Good has released its top-10 list of documentaries about food. They include movies about a sushi stand in Tokyo, a pastry competition in France,...
View ArticleVideo: Portland as Tiny Town for Toys (Little Big World)
This is a fun little video that showcases Portland in a whimsical way. Luke Plunkett uses tilt-shift photography to create the illusion that Maine’s largest city is actually a tiny town for toys.
View ArticleVideo: ‘The Hunger Games,’ Revisited
The Hunger Games, Revisited from Bowdoin College on Vimeo.Kristen Ghodsee (right, John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies) and Aviva Briefel (Associate Professor of English...
View ArticleVideo: Dance Clubs Perform Spring Show
Taiko, Arabesque, VAGUE, Polar Bear Swing, Elemental and Obvious put on their spring dance show recently, performing pieces they’ve been working on this semester.Video by Sean Martin Please upgrade...
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‘Tis the Season for Nest Cams (Wall Street Journal)
Illustration credit: Abby McBrideA Red-tailed Hawk family in Ithaca, N.Y. has its own reality show thanks to cameras mounted on its nest, which sits at the top of a light pole on the Cornell University...
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Bowdoin on ‘Jeopardy!’: Cindy Cammarn ’14 Competes in College Championship
Cindy Cammarn '14 (bottom row, second from right) with fellow College Week contestants and Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek (top row, center).Cindy Cammarn ’14 has had enough of the right answers — in the...
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Jeopardy! Semi-Finalist Cindy Cammarn ’14 to Compete Tonight
Cindy Cammarn ’14 continues her quest tonight to become a Jeopardy champion when she appears in the semi-final round of the show’s College Championship. Cammarn, a history and English major, and...
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Honorary Degree Recipients to Share Insights and Expertise
(L. to r.) Madeleine Albright, Jean Arasanayagam, David Blight, Rose Marie Bravo, Philip Conkling, C. Lee Herter.Many of the College’s six distinguished honorary degree recipients will soon be on...
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Unique Cover Letter Lands Daisy Alioto ’13 NPR Internship
Daisy Alioto ’13Trying to convince National Public Radio to hire her for an internship this summer, senior Daisy Alioto — who will be the student Baccalaureate speaker Friday evening — eschewed the...
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‘Jeopardy!’ Experience ‘100% Positive’ for Cindy Cammarn ’14
Cindy Cammarn ’14 and Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, Photo courtesy of Jeopardy Productions, Inc.Bowdoin junior Cindy Cammarn first had to make it through rigorous try-outs to qualify as a contestant for...
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Actor and Philanthropist Patrick Dempsey Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Humane...
Bowdoin President Barry Mills congratulates Patrick Dempsey (Photo: © Bob Handelman)Maine native Patrick Dempsey — who plays Dr. Derek Shepherd on the hit television series Grey’s Anatomy — became “a...
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Alumni Folk Opera Serves to Help Sexual Assault Victims
Jillie Mae Eddy '11 is the playwright and composer of folk opera "The Girl From Bare Cove," as well as co-founder of digital art gallery, "The Folkland." The Girl from Bare Cove, an original folk...
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Bowdoin Medley Featured at Portland’s Fourth of July Concert
More than 30,000 people turned out Thursday on Portland’s Eastern Promenade overlooking Casco Bay for fireworks and the annual Fourth of July performance by the Portland Symphony Orchestra. In...
View ArticleSteve Schwartz ’70 Among Producers of New Ridley Scott Film
Fox 2000 Pictures recently released a teaser trailer for a new Ridley Scott thriller, The Counselor, which was co-produced by Steve ’70 and Paula Mae Schwartz of Chockstone Pictures, Scott, and Nick...
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The Sound of Music: Filipe Camarotti ’14 and his Acoustical Engineering...
When you’re in a performance hall, awash in the satiny tones of a jazz saxophonist or a violin quartet, the auditory experience you’re having is the result of many calculations. The tilt of ceiling...
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After a Year of High and Low Notes, Alexi Robbins ’14 Launches Music App to...
After a year of hard work away from Bowdoin, Alexi Robbins ’14 recently launched Tamber, a new music app. So far hundreds of people have downloaded it and it’s attracting positive reviews by users and...
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‘Bowdoin Students Are Everywhere’
The latest banner by Career Planning is now hanging prominently in Smith Union to showcase the diversity of places where Bowdoin students have worked or interned in 2013. The long list of names on the...
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Adam Najberg ’90 on Madden … and Moustaches (Wall Street Journal)
Madden and Najberg ’90 in 1988 In his Game Theory column in The Wall Street Journal, Adam Najberg ’90 waxes eloquent about the 25th birthday of Madden, the ultimate video game franchise for football...
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Why Talent and Success Are Not Interchangeable (Financial Times Magazine)
Meg Wolitzer, author of the novel The Interestings, makes the argument that success is more frequently lauded than talent in our noisy, Internet-fueled world. Talent can be easily overlooked or...
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‘Humanities Help Us Better Enjoy, Endure Life’ (New Yorker)
Adam Gopnik, a writer for The New Yorker, laments the ebbing allure of the English major: “The English major is vanishing from our colleges as the Latin prerequisite vanished before it, we’re told, a...
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