News and Events

Three Decades of Art and Poetry from Kent Island

Two Kent Island fellows, Tess Mooney ’26 and Caitlin Panicker ’26, have curated a new exhibition featuring art by students who spent a summer on the island between 1997 and 2024. Visitors can see the show in the Roux Center through early June.

Board of Trustees Awards Tenure to Five Faculty Members

The Bowdoin College Board of Trustees has granted tenure to five faculty members.

Gnat Your Average Fly: Aale Agans ’25 Explores New Gene Editing Technique on Fungus Gnat

The senior is finessing a procedure to better study the genetics of the darkwinged fungus gnat, Bradysia coprophila, and possiby open the door to future biomedical breakthroughs.

Research, Publications, Awards, and More: Highlights from a Semester of Faculty Achievements

Through new books, papers published in journals, media appearances, and more, Bowdoin faculty members complemented their time in the classroom during the fall semester with a variety of scholarly and artistic contributions.

Interdisciplinary Exhibition Highlights Ecological Change on a Maine Island

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art hosts an exhibition bringing together biology, history, and art history to explore the changing landscape of Monhegan Island over the centuries and how that change has been portrayed by artists.

Media Highlights Schiller Center, Bowdoin Senior’s Efforts to Restore Maine Eelgrass

Biology major Lucy Dutton ’25 works with the Schiller Coastal Studies Center as part of a regional collaboration to restore Casco Bay’s degraded eelgrass habitat. The marine plant is vital to the health of the ecosystem.

"What If We Get It Right?" Launching a Moment and Making a Media Splash

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is having a moment—a big, important, planet-saving moment that is being celebrated by platforms that loom large on the media landscape.

Kent Island: A Summer in Images

With each summer comes a new opportunity for a unique learning experience as a handful of students heads to Kent Island—Bowdoin College’s remote, 200-acre island in the Bay of Fundy, used mostly for ecological research.

Student Researchers Explore Topics of Local Importance

Three biology majors this summer are working on research about eelgrass, lobsters, and a river dam. Each project has the potential to positively impact Maine’s environment.

From Polygonal Billiard Tables to Racism in Jazz, Faculty Grants Support a Variety of Research Projects

Scholars representing a wide array of disciplines benefitted from grant funding during the spring semester. From math to music, from neuroscience to environmental studies, from biology to oceanography, Bowdoin faculty are pursuing pioneering research.

Ten Professors Appointed to Named Chairs

Ten Bowdoin faculty members have been appointed to named chairs at the College in recognition of their achievements as scholars and educators.

Faculty Awards Boost Research and Teaching of the Environment from Different Perspectives 

Five scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, and STEM subjects have been awarded prestigious federal grants in recent months to help them pursue a range of projects and activities, all related in different ways to environmental issues.

Marine Biologist Gina Lonati ’12 Uses the Sea and Sky to Study and Protect Right Whales

On the fall semester’s last day of classes, Gina Lonati ’12 spoke to a crowded room in Druckenmiller Hall about her research on endangered North Atlantic right whales. It is estimated that only 200 still roam the seas.

Sticking with It: Student Researchers Make Significant Findings in Professor's Plant Science Lab

Bruce Kohorn, Bowdoin's Linnean Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, has published a new paper on cell wall adhesion with a string of coauthors—all of them recent Bowdoin students.

The Sea Around Us at Schiller: Coastal Research Reveals Complexities of Marine Life

Backed by Bowdoin fellowships, more than a dozen students this summer investigated sea star locomotion, lobster communication, microplastic pollution, and the implications of rising temperatures on ocean ecosystems.

What the Leach’s Storm Petrel Can Teach Us

Biology professor Patty Jones is tapping into seventy years of data from the Bowdoin College Scientific Station on Kent Island to pursue an NSF-funded project examining the Leach’s Storm Petrel and why some of them are able to defy ecological norms.

Summer Fellows Embrace Kent Island Life in Stewardship Program

After graduating in May this year, Charlie O’Brien and Reed Warburton decided they weren’t quite done with College yet and chose to spend the summer at the Bowdoin Scientific Station (BSS) on Kent Island, learning how to live off the grid.

CBC Series Spotlights How Kent Island Became a Thriving Scientific Sanctuary

To those in the know, the Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island is an oasis of opportunity—two hundred acres of lush nature serving as the backdrop and the raw material for students to do hands-on research. The scientific sanctuary recently found itself in the spotlight before a broader audience, thanks to a series of reports airing on the CBC.

Students Present Gulf of Maine Findings at Major Marine Ecology Conference

Four students recently shared results from their independent research projects at a national conference focused on marine science and coastal ecosystems.

Roger Wilder ’25 Receives NOAA Scholarship to Study Our Changing Oceans

The biology major is just one of 120 undegraduates to win an Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship, which offers college tuition support and a summer internship with a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facility.