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sign up today—it's free! Maurice Prendergast: By the SeaOn This Day1864 — U.S. Grant issues Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain a field promotion to Brigadier General for gallant conduct. StorePurchase Bowdoin merchandise online. |  Atayne 2013 summer intern Tom Henshall ’15 Since moving his company, Atayne, from Virginia to his hometown of Brunswick a few years back, Jeremy Litchfield ’99 has hired a number of Bowdoin students as interns. Because his business is small — it’s just Litchfield and his wife working out of their home — the interns are thrown immediately into the myriad day-to-day operations of the eco-friendly company. Atayne sells sportswear apparel made from #1 plastic, primarily from recycled plastic bottles. Throughout the academic year, the company hires one to three Bowdoin interns. This summer, for the first time, Atayne has hired an intern who is financially supported by one of the grants from Bowdoin’s funded internship program. Read the full story.  This summer, six Bowdoin students are traveling abroad to pursue community-service projects, from helping AIDS victims in Peru to inspiring young runners in Kenya to seek a college education in the United States. These students have each received a Global Citizens Grant from Bowdoin, a program jump-started in 2008 by William Oppenheim ’09. The grant encourages students to explore countries outside the United States and to approach service in a unique, personalized way.
The Global Citizens Grant is administered by the McKeen Center for the Common Good with generous support provided by Michael Frieze ’60 and Linda Frieze through the Frieze Family Foundation of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. This summer, the six global citizens — Maggie Acosta ’16, Evan Bulman ’16, Jeff Cuartas ’14, Will Horne ’14, Marcus Karim ’14 and Marble Karuu ’14 — are in South America, Asia and Africa. Read more about their plans here. 
Rather than staying on American soil next year, a group of Bowdoin seniors will launch their careers in Asia, dispersing after graduation to far-off places such as Singapore, Tokyo or Kagoshima Prefecture. Vyjayanthi Selinger, assistant professor of Asian studies, says she’s seeing more Bowdoin students than usual this year headed to Asia for work or internships, including many more undergraduates. While she’s not entirely sure what’s behind this migration, she credits the active alumni group Bowdoin Club of Asia for helping entice undergraduates and graduates to Asia. She also points to students’ positive study-abroad or summer-abroad experiences. Bowdoin Career Planning also collaborates with the Bowdoin Club of Asia to link students up with opportunities, working closely with William Bao Bean ’95 to create a list of internships or jobs through the club’s referral program, according to Career Planning Director Tim Diehl. Read more about the students’ plans here.  This year, 39 students who received grants from Bowdoin’s Funded Internship Program will spend the summer working at organizations around the globe, from the Foundation for Sustainable Development in Jodhpur, India, to the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C.
Every spring, in a competitive process, Bowdoin Career Planning gives out awards to students from its pool of grant funds. These funds, which have been set up by donors, allow students to pursue diverse work experiences while not worrying about earning money. The student recipients choose where and for whom they will work, and end up at both nonprofits and for-profits, or pursue their own projects. Read more about these summer plans here.  This year, Bowdoin’s German department has announced that three students have received fellowships to study or work in Germany or Austria.
Seniors Dechan Dalrymple ’13 and Kenzie Novak ’13 have both won English Teaching Assistantships in Austria for the 2013-2014 academic year. Jeremy Lewis ’13 has received the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals, a yearlong fellowship for study and work in Germany. Read the full story here.  Three Bowdoin seniors, Kacey Berry, Jacob Blum and Emma Cutler, have received Fulbright grants to do research next year in foreign countries. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is designed to increase mutual understanding between Americans and people of other countries, and grantees are selected not only for their strong academic background but also for their ability to bridge cultures. This year, five other Bowdoin seniors also received Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships and one received a language study grant.
Ketura (Kacey) Berry, a neuroscience major and history minor, will work in the lab of Ilona Grunwald-Kadow, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in a suburb of Munich, Germany. Jacon Blum is heading off to Rome, Italy to join the lab of Maurizio Gatti, a scientist who works on the genetics of cell division, chromosome stability, and how these processes underlie the aging process. Emma Cutler, a math and environmental studies major, will be returning to Sri Lanka, where she studied abroad in 2011, to continue research she started then that looked into the environmental impact of agriculture. Read the full story about the students’ research plans. 
Setting out for their first year as Bowdoin graduates, Fulbright recipients Samantha Burns, Daniel Ertis, Uchechi Esonu, RaiNesha Miller and Erin St. Peter will travel to far-off places around the world to teach English. Meanwhile, Adam Rasgon will study Arabic in Egypt. Elena Crosley was also awarded a three-year Fulbright Canada Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Award, valued at $120,000. This Fulbright STEM is given to a select group of U.S. students to pursue their Ph.D. at one of Canada’s six leading research universities. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is designed to increase mutual understanding between Americans and people of other countries, and grantees are selected not only for their strong academic background but also for their ability to bridge cultures. This year, three other Bowdoin seniors also received Fulbright research grants. Read about the students’ plans here.  Bowdoin junior Kiersten King, of Colorado Springs, Colo., has won a Beinecke scholarship to support her aspirations to become an archaeologist of the ancient Mediterranean world. The Beinecke Scholarship Program is designed “to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue…a graduate course of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences.” Each year, only 20 students from across the country with financial need and exceptional academic promise receive this award. King recently answered questions about her scholarship while in Rome, where she studied abroad this semester.
Read the full Q&A with King here.  The day before the hullabaloo of Commencement, before rejoicing over degrees and gobbling lobster, before vehicles were packed to move newly minted graduates on to new lives, a handful of students and family members gathered for an intimate event in Moulton Union’s Lancaster Lounge.
They had come for the annual First-Generation Lunch, when Bowdoin honors the students who are the first in their families to graduate from college. President Barry Mills welcomed the parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents and friends who joined the lunch as guests of students. “I know how much emotion is tied to this,” he said, to the moment when families watch their son or daughter — with years of hard work and generations of hard lives behind them — receive a college degree. Read the full story here.  For many years, Ruben Martinez ’15 had longed to go to the Google I/O Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, Calif. “As an aspiring developer and undergraduate computer science major, attending Google I/O has long been the stuff of dreams,” he writes in his blog.
Google I/O is an annual conference when Google shows off such things as it new products and back-end improvements to its operating systems, Martinez explains. Thousands of tech developers attend or tune in online. Although Martinez couldn’t personally afford the trip, which was held in mid May, he didn’t let that stop him from trying to make “the pilgrimage to attend Google I/O in person.” Read the rest of Martinez’s story to find out how his being “hyper-connected, where everyone from your childhood friends to the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are but a click away,” helped him, as well as his own tenacity. “Never lose the craving for success, the ambition to fight for what you believe is yours,” he writes. “Even when the world seems to be working against you, don’t lose the courage to keep going.” (Martinez describes actually being at the conference here, in “Part II.”) | On This Day in Civil War History…Bowdoin Talks: Lectures, Discussions and Events |
