Q&A: Michael Danahy Receives Karofsky Teaching Prize

Michael Danahy, a lecturer in the department of chemistry, has been awarded the 2012 Sydney B. Karofsky Prize for Junior Faculty, an honor recognizing excellence in teaching.

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Bowdoin Trustees Honor Four Retiring Faculty Members

Four Bowdoin faculty members were elected to emeritus status during the May 11-12, 2012 meeting of the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees: Tom Cornell, Jane Knox, Jim McCalla, and Craig McEwen.

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New York City Alive with the Music of Elliott Schwartz in May and June

Four different performances of internationally acclaimed composer and Bowdoin music professor emeritus Elliott Schwartz's music will be presented, two of them premieres.

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Summer Starts Early for 'Community Matters in Maine' Fellows

This year’s Community Matters in Maine fellows gathered recently to hear more about what to expect from the best source: alumni of the program.

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A Transformed Earth and Oceanographic Science Department Blossoms

In the past, it was common for Bowdoin’s small but solid geology department to attract just a handful of new student majors — three some years, seven other years. But this spring, the department, which has been renamed Earth and Oceanographic Science, had 27 sophomores declare their major in this field.

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Robinson's Theatre Company Brings Rare Tennessee Williams Play Back to the Stage

Fresh from the success of The Glass Menagerie, and while still working on A Streetcar Named Desire in New Orleans, Tennessee Williams wrote a pivotal play in 1946 that few have ever seen: Ten Blocks on the Camino Real.

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