Erin O’Shea presented the Arnold D. Kates Common Hour lecture recently at Bowdoin. O’Shea is the president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is the Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. Organisms have evolved ways of keeping track of time so that […]
CONTINUE READINGFrom 1870 to 1908, artist and botanist Kate Furbish traveled Maine, collecting, classifying, and illustrating the native flora of her state. Plants and Flowers of Maine: Kate Furbish’s Watercolors, a new two-volume set produced by Bowdoin College Library and Rowman & Littlefield publishers and in collaboration with Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, faithfully reproduces some 1,300 […]
CONTINUE READINGThis year’s keynote speaker for the President’s Science Symposium was Dr. Chad Mirkin, who gave a talk called “Nanotechnology: A Small World with Big Potential.” Mirkin is the director of Northwestern University’s International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University. Following Mirkin’s talk, three students presented their research. Julia E. Maine ’16 gave a talk titled, […]
CONTINUE READINGRobert Bazell, former chief science and health correspondent for NBC News, spoke at Bowdoin Feb. 23, 2015, on the advancements in cancer treatment and the commercial concerns surrounding them. In his 37 years at NBC, Bazell reported over 4,500 news items and won dozens of awards for his journalism including an Edward R. Murrow Award, […]
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