Bowdoin has given the 2010 Abraxas Award to Westborough High School in Westborough, Mass. The award is given each year to the secondary school sending two or more graduates to the College whose representatives maintain the highest standing during their first year at the college.
The first days of summer have been uncharacteristically warm and dry at the Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island, where nine Bowdoin students (and one more to arrive this week) are a third of the way into a nine-week field season. The group includes a writer, an installation artist, a photographer, and seven biologists working alongside a team of researchers studying birds, fish, marine invertebrates, and eelgrass. In the coming weeks, the students will haul lobster pots; travel to Machias Seal Island to see the puffin and razorbill nesting colonies; celebrate Canada Day on Grand Manan, and go on a whale watching excursion aboard caretaker Russell Ingalls’s boat. But for now, as BSS Director Damon Gannon and Summer Artist-in-Residence Anne Rothacker ’11 describe in this report, it’s time for dinner.
President Barack Obama has announced his intention to nominate Bowdoin graduate Robert P. Jackson to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon. Jackson, a member of the Class of 1978, is currently Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Rabat, Morocco.
Rare is the workday in which the to-do list isn’t interrupted by small fires to put out, requests from the boss and other unforeseen obstacles. Here are tips to working smarter.
Topping your grilled hamburger with a spicy, fermented fish sauce doesn’t sound too appetizing. But that exotic-sounding concoction was the Malaysian origin of the common condiment, ketchup. Meanwhile, we have the West Indies to thank for barbecues; and a medicinal syrup from plant roots in ancient times led to marshmallows. Check out the origins of ten words that make summertime fun time.
“I’m ill and won’t be in today.” “No, that skirt does not make you look fat.” Lies. They begin around age two or three, when children begin to realize they’re not always being watched by someone who knows all. Read this and you’ll be an expert on the basics, the signs and the how-to’s of lying. Honest.
