Tracing Lasting, Local Footprints of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'

A new course on Uncle Tom's Cabin traces Harriet Beecher Stowe's footprints through Brunswick.

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Research Grants Boosted Student into Brainy Graduate Work

As a Beckman Scholar, Chris Cashman '07 worked extensively with Bowdoin faculty researchers on a groundbreaking, collaborative research project. Now studying at Johns Hopkins, he is fascinated by brain-machine interfaces.

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MacEachern's Course Videotaped for Worldwide Audience

Professor of Anthropology Scott MacEachern teaches to a worldwide audience in his new videotaped course, Origin of Civilization, produced by The Teaching Company.

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Five Faculty Members Earn Tenure in 2010

Five Bowdoin faculty members have been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2010. The Board of Trustees voted on their promotion during their Feb. 4-6, 2010, meeting.

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Wethli Wins 2009 New England Award for Painting

Mark Wethli, Bowdoin's A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Art, has been awarded the 2009 New England Art Award for Painting by the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research.The awards honor the best art made in New England and top exhibitions organized in the region.

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From Hot Sauce to Xbox, Dante Still Rocks

They got Dante's name right. And they got Dante’s infernal architecture right. But makers of the new action-adventure video game Dante's Inferno got one thing wrong, says Professor Arielle Saiber: It's the babe who saves the boy.

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