2000 — Not-for-profit entrepreneur Ellen Baxter '75 presents a lecture entitled "Homelessness in New York City: The Courts, the Politics and Pragmatic Solutions,” in the chapel.
Just a hop and a short boat ride away from the Bowdoin campus is Haskell Island, where Matt Gannon ’11 is knee deep excavating a shell midden — ancient Native American refuse sites —where 2,000 years of culture is near at hand.
Sure, networking and catching up with your best friend from kindergarten are worthwhile activities, but Facebook, which reportedly is registering its 500 millionth member this week, can also do more harm than good.
Bowdoin has received the 2010 Denis Pratt ADA Award in recognition of what the Maine ADA Coalition describes as substantial contributions to the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and service to the community.
Today in America, there are 77,000 clinical psychologists and 192,000 clinical social workers. Fifty years ago, those numbers were 2,500 and 30,000, respectively. What’s going on?