Soon after first-year students moved into their dorms Monday, they embarked on a week of orientation activities, leading up to the start of classes September 2.
Each summer at Bowdoin, around two hundred students receive fellowships from the College to conduct independent, faculty-mentored research in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Bowdoin is proud to announce a $50 million gift—the largest in our 231-year history—from Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings ’83 to launch the Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity.
After experiencing time in a wheelchair, Mukudzei Seremani ’28 turned her personal hardship into community impact, designing accessible ramps and helping her Zimbabwean neighbors with disabilities develop an income stream.
When Bowdoin’s digital community manager put out a call to students to share their summer experiences, the responses came in from job sites across the sectors: biomedical labs, a local newspaper, Capitol Hill, a PR firm, and other locations.
With an internship as a software developer at L.L. Bean this summer, Zai Yang's primary task was to create a new web customer service application for employees. But he also got the chance to star in a social media video for the company.
In Dear Sojourner: A Memoir of Lessons on Overcoming, Achieving, and Thriving In and Outside College, Ruth Olujobi ’25 reflects on her experience of leaving Nigeria for Bowdoin to offer guidance for other college students.
