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sign up today—it's free! On This Day1878 — President Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is the orator for the 46th annual Alpha Delta Phi Convention in Middletown, Conn. StorePurchase Bowdoin merchandise online. |  The George J. Mitchell Oral History Project has earned the 2012 Elizabeth B. Mason Major Project Award, which is given biennially by the Oral History Association to an outstanding English language oral history project anywhere in the world.
The Bowdoin College Library from 2008 to 2011 collected oral histories from people in former Sen. George Mitchell ’54′s life. Interviewees include Mitchell’s Waterville, Maine friends; family members; college classmates; Maine legislators; political associates and competitors; campaign supporters; U.S. Senate colleagues and staff members; foreign policy specialists; law practice associates; and others. Cumulatively, their spoken accounts document Mitchell’s life and career from early childhood onward, with particular emphasis on his public service to Maine and to the nation. They complement his personal papers, which are also held by Bowdoin. The Elizabeth B. Mason Major Project Award is given to projects of noteworthy scholarly and social value that also advance both the understanding of an important historical subject and the practice of oral history.  Charlie Cubeta '13 in Detroit Last fall, Charlie Cubeta ’13 traveled for four months with the study-abroad program, IHP: Cities in the 21st Century, visiting four far-flung cities: Detroit, Sao Paulo, Cape Town and Hanoi. In Detroit, Cubeta was introduced to Kurt Metzger, “an experienced demographer and mini-celebrity among Detroit professionals,” Cubeta says, who directs a nonprofit called Data Driven Detroit. Inspired by Metzger’s mission, Cubeta received a fellowship from the Preston Public Interest Career Fund to work for “D3″ this summer, as Cubeta calls it. The Preston fellowship funds Bowdoin students who want to intern for an organization helping the underserved or disadvantaged. Cubeta, who is from Arlington, Mass, is a government and environmental studies major, and an economics minor. He answered a few questions recently about his summertime work. Continue reading Q&A: In Detroit, Charlie Cubeta ’13 Uses Data to Help a Struggling City 
Nathan Krah ’08, currently studying human genetics at the University of Utah, was the winner at the 35th running of the San Francisco Marathon held Sunday, July 29, 2012. Krah finished the hilly 26.2-mile course in 2:26.45. Read coverage by the San Francisco Chronicle and watch KTVU-TV’s interview with Krah just moments after he crossed the finish line. 
Around 200 people gathered in Eastport, Maine, on Tuesday, July 24, to dedicate the first commercial tidal energy generation project in the United States. The project by Portland, Maine-based Ocean Renewable Power Co. should be online in early fall, and will eventually produce enough electricity with its 20 underwater turbines to power 1,200 homes. Maine and Alaska are the only two U.S. states with tides strong enough for commercial energy production. | On This Day in Civil War History…Bowdoin Talks: Lectures, Discussions and Events |
