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sign up today—it's free! On This Day1798 — Boards approve a 50-foot by 40-foot, three-story building, which would be finished in 1802 and be named Massachusetts Hall. StorePurchase Bowdoin merchandise online. |  Tourmament winners Greg Park and Dave Rosen, with finalists Zach Linhart '07 and Matt Dresher '07. Bowdoin alumni featured prominently on the hardball squash courts in Maryland this fall at the M4 Doubles Tournament organized by Fred Hill ’62. Zach Linhart ’07 and Matt Dresher ’07 made it to the finals of the Open Division, where they fell 3-1 to the professional duo of Greg Park and Dave Rosen. (Linhart and Mike Fensterstock ’04 won the tournament in 2009.) Scott Simonton ’76 and Pete George took the trophy in 50s Division. For more, read Fred Hill’s article in Squash Magazine.  Transportation sharing services have grown in popularity in the last decade as economical and environmental alternatives to owning, with Zipcar as the auto standard, and many bicycle services vying for their own spots in the market. A new San Francisco-based car sharing service called Getaround is bending the car sharing model with a more social approach, and Good bills it as the future of the industry.
 Kristen Ghodsee and cover image from her latest book, "Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism" Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011), the latest book by Kristen Ghodsee, Bowdoin’s John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, was featured in a segment airing on Public Radio International’s The World. Listen to the interview with Ghodsee. Listen to Ghodsee read from Lost in Transition.  Todd Webb, "The Battery, Lower Manhattan, New York (Peanut Man)," 1945. Vintage gelatin silver print. ©Todd Webb. Courtesy of Evans Gallery and Estate of Todd and Lucille Webb, Portland, Maine, U.S.A. The Boston Globe lends a bit of context and history to the narrative depicted in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition After Atget: Todd Webb Photographs New York and Paris. The review, “Eager Exploration of New York, Paris,” looks at Webb’s influences and highlights the humanity captured in his work. Read the review.  Photo courtesy of Scandinavian Wildlife Park. The Huffington Post features new pictures of the über-photogenic polar bear cub, Siku. Scandinavian Wildlife Park in Denmark is raising the month-old cub, which was removed from his mother after she failed to feed him.  A renaissance is underway among the Ancient Eight. In the last couple of years, the Ivy League has racked up more than a hundred all-Americans and won many individual national championships. Coaches and athletic directors credit enhanced financial aid policies that make it easier to recruit elite athletes.
 Mariya Ilyas '13 Mariya Ilyas ’13 spent last summer launching a high school newspaper in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Ilyas lived there as a child, before it became known as the location where Osama bin Laden was killed. Ilyas shared her experiences in her blog Multiple Lenses and in an essay she wrote for the Bowdoin Daily Sun. The Times Record interviewed Ilyas for its year-end series, Newsmakers 2011, in which she speaks candidly about the unexpected challenges she encountered on the trip back to her hometown. Read the article.  Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Class of 1915. Photo: George J. Mitchell Dept. of Special Collections & Archives Robert P. Tristram Coffin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning volume of poetry Strange Holiness was praised by The New York Times for its “finely chiseled verses” and “manifold perfections.” Coffin’s poem Winter Friends is spotlighted in the Maine Sunday Telegram/Portland Press Herald feature Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry, a collaboration with the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. A native of Brunswick and resident of Harpswell, he graduated from Bowdoin College in 1915 and returned to campus as professor of English from 1934 until his death in 1955. 
You were so good on the office holiday party committee, you’ve been asked to organize the retreat this summer. Before you make the mistake of scheduling too much and not leaving enough downtime, or the tragic error of ordering those doodads with the company logo on them, read Fortune‘s “Secrets of Planning a Terrific Off-Site Meeting.” 
Once you’ve stabilized from the shock of putting on the extra five or 10 pounds the American Heart Association reports that most folks gain during the holidays, you can do something about it. You’ve heard about the importance of drinking water, but did you know about the metabolism-boosting qualities of green tea? Check out these tips for burning off that holiday belly. | Bowdoin Athletics 5/13/2012 Women's Tennis Recap5/12/2012 Women's Tennis Recap5/12/2012 Women's Track & Field at Ind. Results Open New England's (MIT) | Recap 5/17/2012 Men's Track & Field at ECAC Championship (RPI) 5/17/2012 Women's Track & Field at ECAC Championship (RPI) 5/21/2012 Men's Tennis Bowdoin at Williams Live stats5/21/2012 Women's Tennis Bowdoin at Emory 5/24/2012 Men's Track & Field at NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship (Claremont) 5/24/2012 Women's Track & Field at NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship (Claremont) |
