The six students will play a crucial role as peer educators, acting as a bridge between the student body and the Hastings Initiative team. They will support programming, outreach, and resource development designed to help their fellow Polar Bears engage thoughtfully with artificial intelligence and its ethical implications.
Mingi Kang ’26 received a Fall Research Award from Bowdoin this semester to support his project exploring how two distinct concepts for computer vision might be combined to create a more robust artificial intelligence.
Professor Gomezgil Yaspik, of the Digital and Computational Studies Program, recently represented the College across multiple academic venues in Peru and Brazil—continuing Bowdoin’s growing international presence in data science, artificial intelligence, and the humanities.
The senior has received a grant from Bowdoin to travel to Vienna, Austria, over winter break to do research in the archives of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
English and cinema studies scholar Aviva Briefel explores the literary and cinematic trope of the haunted space and the importance these locations assume in the plotlines of horror books and movies.
An expert in computational linguistics, Dan Loehr gave a talk at Bowdoin on how AI is and can be used to address climate change by mitigating emissions from carbon-intensive sectors, modeling climate change, and capturing carbon.
Hundreds of snail shells covered the lab tables, sorted into plastic bags and arranged by size and shape. Outside, the ocean swelled in the coastal Maine breeze.