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If you’re heading over the river and through the woods during the holidays — and at the risk of sounding cliché twice in one sentence — there’s an app for that. Whether you’re an over-planner or more the spontaneous type, traveling alone or with the whole clan, help is heading your way — just don’t leave home without your mobile device.  Priya Sridhar '07 (Illustration: Chelee Ross '12) This profile originally appeared in the Summer 2011 issue of Bowdoin magazine. Current residence: New Delhi, India Twitter: @prisri123 Bowdoin major: Government & Legal Studies From liberal arts to international journalism: Because I have an academic background in international relations, it doesn’t take me as long to catch up when I get assigned an interview with only 45 minutes to prepare. Most importantly, Bowdoin taught me how to read and write. I learned how to take primary documents, understand and analyze them, create an argument, and back it up with points. These are the exact things I do pretty much every day as a journalist. Continue reading Profile: Priya Sridhar ’07 (Bowdoin Magazine)  Global Citizens recipient Bryce Lednar ’11 (standing, second from right) at Joining Hearts and Hands in Kisumu, Kenya. Fresh from their experiences exploring international development issues through service with grassroots organizations abroad, Bowdoin’s recent Global Citizens Grant recipients are now building on their work here in Maine. They are working to raise awareness on campus or in local schools, deepening their understanding of the public health, education and sustainability issues they addressed through the courses they’re taking, or gaining perspective on these issues locally through community service work in Brunswick or with immigrant and refugee communities in Portland. Read more.  Eric Loss '08
Eric Loss ’08 is taking off on the adventure of a lifetime. He leaves Sunday on a solo non-stop journey to circumnavigate the globe aboard his Islander 36, the Odyssey. Visit Loss’ S/V Odyssey blog to learn how he’s prepared, see his route and track his progress.
“I started this museum because I wanted people to have a chance to see the beauty, excitement and wonder of mathematics,” said Glen Whitney. Planned exhibitions for MoMath include a square-wheeled tricycle that can ride on a special path as smoothly as a round-wheeled one.
Bowdoin faculty members have published more than a dozen books during the 2010-2011 academic year, many of which have been hailed by critics as groundbreaking in their fields. The works span disciplines from economics to art history to sociology.  Tug Buse '01 (Illustration: Chelee Ross '12) This profile originally appeared in the Summer 2011 issue of Bowdoin magazine. From August 2009 to October 2010, Tug Buse sailed a homemade 14-foot boat down the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, around Florida, and up the East Coast to Brunswick. Hometown: Seattle, Wash. Bowdoin major: History (with a minor in Africana Studies) This fall, WLOB 1310 AM (Portland) launched the “Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast,” broadcast each Sunday at 11 am (streaming at wlobradio.com). The show’s “focus is health and wellness, from an individual, family and community perspective,” says eponymous host Lisa Belisle ’92. “We build on themes discussed on our website and blog. I’m joined by co-host (and Maine Magazine wellness editor) Genevieve Morgan ’89.” Each week on the show, Lisa reads a quote from her book, Our Daily Tread, which honors her late classmate Hanley Denning ’92. Sales of Our Daily Tread have raised more than $22,000 for Safe Passage, the Guatemalan educational non-profit that Hanley founded.  Lisa Belisle '92, Mark Swann '84, and Genevieve Morgan '89 Lisa recently reported that in September she and Genevieve interviewed Mark Swann ’84, 2001 Bowdoin Common Good Award-winner, who has been with the non-profit charitable organization Preble Street in Portland for the past twenty years. Downloads and summaries of the “Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast” are available at doctorlisa.org.  Emma Cutler '13 Emma Cutler ’13 is spending fall semester participating in Bowdoin’s Intercollegiate Sri Lanka Education (ISLE) Program. In addition to her studies of anthropology, economics, environmental studies, government, history, literature, philosophy and religion, taken in small course seminars in Kandy, Cutler is blogging about her adventures, taking readers along with her on scenic hikes, train rides through the backcountry, celebrations for full moon day, and a visit to an elephant orphanage. Read Cutler’s blog, Adventures in Sri Lanka. Established in 1982, ISLE is a consortium program offering students from Bates, Bowdoin, Carleton, Colby, Grinnell, Holy Cross, Macalester, Swarthmore and Whittier Colleges the chance to study abroad in an exciting country while staying in dorms or with host families. Read about the ISLE Program and other international aspects of the Bowdoin experience.  Nicole Gastonguay Ritchie '92 (Illustration: Chelee Ross '12)
This profile originally appeared in the Summer 2011 issue of Bowdoin magazine. Bowdoin major: French Title: French teacher and founder, L’Ecole de Nicole Bowdoin connections: sister, Danielle Gastonguay Dunn ’96 Web: www.ecoledenicole.com |  | ||
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