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Summer 2011

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Summer 2011 issue

Stand Up With a Social Conscience

The Seattle Times has called Hari Kondabolu '04 "a young man reaching for the hand-scalding torch of confrontational comics like Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor." Ed Beem talks to Hari about his journey from Queens to Brunswick and the power of comedy as an instrument of social change

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For the Class of 1961, Bowdoin is Forever
Jill Shaw Ruddock Has a Great Second Half
Big Money on Campus

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Alumni Profile

Aaron Shatkin '56, H'79

Bowdoin Major: Chemistry

Hometown: Norwood, Rhode Island

Title: Professor of Microbiology, Molecular Genetic & Immunology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; University Professor of Molecular Biology, Rutgers University; Director, Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine (CABM)

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