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Bowdoin's student newspaper, The Bowdoin Orient, is the oldest continuously published college weekly in the United States. [65] The Orient was named the second-best tabloid-sized college weekly at a Collegiate Associated Press conference in March 2007 and the best college newspaper in New England by the New England Society of News Editors in 2018.
The state's three oldest institutions of higher education are Bowdoin College (founded in 1794), Colby College (1813), and Bates College (1855). The three colleges collectively form the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium and are ranked among the best colleges in the United States; often placing in the top 10 percent of all liberal arts colleges. [2 ...
Greason's curricular achievements included reinstating the course distribution requirements Bowdoin had abolished in 1970, establishing its Department of Computer Science, and instituting its Arctic Studies, Asian Studies and Women's Studies programs. In 1987, Greason asked a special panel to decide whether fraternities should be abolished at ...
The Roux Institute offers graduate degrees in computer science. In 2022, it established a partnership with Bowdoin College and Colby College that allows students to take courses toward their master’s degree at the Roux Institute while still enrolled as an undergraduate student. [11] [12]
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Originally known as the Senior Center, the 16-story building was an educational experiment that brought virtually the entire senior class into a single residence hall and made a senior seminar part of each semester's course offerings. After he left Bowdoin, Coles became president of Research Corporation, a private foundation for the advancement ...
The Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum is a museum located in the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.Named after Arctic explorers and Bowdoin College graduates Robert E. Peary (Class of 1877) and Donald B. MacMillan (Class of 1898), it is the only museum in the lower 48 states of the United States dedicated completely to Arctic Studies.
Rosemary A. Roberts is a statistics educator who led the creation of the AP Statistics course and exam for US secondary school students, [1] and who later chaired the Statistical Education Section of the American Statistical Association. [2] Educated in England and Canada, she spent many years working in the US before her 2013 retirement. [3] [4]