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President Barry Mills opened the academic year by addressing the Bowdoin community with a talk about technology’s role in education. Inside Higher Ed broadens President Mills’ audience by publishing an essay adapted from that Convocation address delivered August 31, 2011.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan — called “a thrilling time” by the Portland Press Herald — is a collection of 60 bronze vessels and monumental bells from southern China. As Museum Curator Joachim Homann explains, visitors have an extremely rare opportunity for what he calls a spellbinding and transcendent experience.
President Barry Mills delivered the eulogy at a memorial service held Friday at Brunswick’s First Parish Church for A. LeRoy Greason, who devoted 38 years to the College as a professor, dean and president. Greason died August 30, 2011; he was 88. Continue reading Remembering A. LeRoy Greason: President Mills Delivers Eulogy
In his annual Opening of the College address and before a packed Pickard Theater, President Barry Mills addresses the role of technology in the transformation of education. Continue reading Barry Mills on Education’s Technology Transformation
The College’s annual Convocation ceremony, marking the official opening of the 210th academic year, was held Wednesday in Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. President Mills addressed technology’s role in the transformation of education, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Rick Thompson spoke of the pursuit of passions in this address, “The Quail Debates,” and Dean Tim Foster borrowed from the pages of Bowdoin’s history for his talk, “Voices from Bowdoin’s Past.”
 A. LeRoy Greason A. LeRoy Greason Jr., a dedicated educator and gifted leader who devoted 38 years to Bowdoin as a professor, dean and president, died over the weekend at the age of 88. In a letter to the Bowdoin community, President Mills writes of Greason’s impact on the College and his lasting legacy. A memorial service will be held Friday, September 2, at 10:30 a.m. at First Parish Church in Brunswick. In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made to Bowdoin College, 4100 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011, or to another of the organizations that Roy Greason supported with his time, talents, and resources.
Bowdoin Chief Information Officer Mitch Davis offers a look at news and trends in technology, gadgets, inventions or just something worth checking out. It’s called “One Cool Thing.” The next wave in gaming, computing, medicine, robotics, art and science could be virtual immersion using Surround Haptics and may be right around the corner thanks to some of the work being done at Disney Research. Continue reading One Cool Thing: Virtual Sensory Immersion with Surround Haptics
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Barry Mills on Developing the Social Capacities to Lead
Citing the need to harness human creativity to spark innovation and echoing the call for a greater focus on entrepreneurship, President Barry Mills writes of Bowdoin’s place in the development of the sophisticated skills required to thrive in a creative economy.
Continue reading Barry Mills on Developing the Social Capacities to Lead