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Bowdoin Orient, v. 126, no. 20
Date: 1996-04-12
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- There are two volumes numbered 126. This is the original.
Bowdoin Orient, v. 126, no. 12
Date: 1996-01-26
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- There are two volumes numbered 126. This is the original.
Bowdoin Orient, v. 126, no. 14
Date: 1996-02-09
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- There are two volumes numbered 126. This is the original.
Bowdoin Orient, v. [128], no. 3
Date: 1997-09-26
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- This volume was misnumbered as volume 126.
Bowdoin Orient, v. [127], no. 16
Date: 1997-02-21
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- The spring semester of volume 127 is misnumbered as volume 125.
Bowdoin Orient, v. [128], no. 5
Date: 1997-10-10
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- This volume was misnumbered as volume 126.
Bowdoin Orient, v. [128], no. 8
Date: 1997-11-07
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- This volume was misnumbered as volume 126.
Bowdoin Orient, v. 132, no. 8
Date: 2000-11-03
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- There are two volumes numbered 132. This is the original.
Bowdoin Orient, v. 132, no. 16
Date: 2001-02-16
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- There are two volumes numbered 132. This is the original.
The History of Bowdoin College: With Biographical Sketches of Its Graduates from 1806 to 1879, Inclusive
Date: 1882-01-01
Creator: Nehemiah Cleaveland, Alpheus S. Packard
Access: Open access
- The History of Bowdoin College: With Biographical Sketches of Its Graduates from 1806 to 1879, Inclusive (1882), by Nehemiah Cleaveland and Alpheus S. Packard, provides encyclopedic biographical sketches of Bowdoin presidents and graduates for most of the nineteenth century, along with engraved portraits for many of them.
Personal Recollections of the Museum of Art and the Department of Art at Bowdoin College
Date: 1991-01-01
Creator: Philip C Beam
Access: Open access
- "Published with the assistance of the John Sloan Memorial Foundation"--T.p. verso
Differential gene expression during compensatory sprouting of dendrites in the auditory system of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus
Date: 2009-08-01
Creator: H. W. Horch, S. S. McCarthy, S. L. Johansen, J. M. Harris
Access: Open access
- Neurones that lose their presynaptic partners because of injury usually retract or die. However, when the auditory interneurones of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus are denervated, dendrites respond by growing across the midline and forming novel synapses with the opposite auditory afferents. Suppression subtractive hybridization was used to detect transcriptional changes 3 days after denervation. This is a stage at which we demonstrate robust compensatory dendritic sprouting. Whereas 49 unique candidates were down-regulated, no sufficiently up-regulated candidates were identified at this time point. Several candidates identified in this study are known to influence the translation and degradation of proteins in other systems. The potential role of these factors in the compensatory sprouting of cricket auditory interneurones in response to denervation is discussed. © 2009 The Royal Entomological Society.
Descriptive Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections
Date: 1903-01-01
Access: Open access
- Includes indexes.
Interview with Symone Howard (Class of 2015), Ashley Musana (Class of 2016), Briana Cardwell (Class of 2017), and Rebkah Tesfamariam (Class of 2018) by Nate DeMoranville
Date: 2019-11-10
Creator: Symone Howard, Ashley Musana, Briana Cardwell, Rebkah Tesfamariam
Access: Open access
- Symone Howard ’15, Ashley Musana ’16, Briana Cardwell ’17, and Rebkah Tesfamariam ’18 were four consecutive presidents of the African American Society. They were the last to preside over the organization before the name changed to Black Student Union. They discuss the numerous challenges each encountered during their time here, which coincided with large scale instances of cultural appropriation, including Cracksgiving, the Gangster Party, and the Tequila Party. Musana, who was president for both parties, recounts the long hours spent working with students and administrators to sustain and support community. All four presidents recognize the tremendous burden placed on them as individuals, but all express gratitude for having created such a close knit community.
Interview with Randy Stakeman by Marcus Williams
Date: 2019-11-10
Creator: Randy Stakeman
Access: Open access
- Randy Stakeman came to Bowdoin in 1978, not as a student, but as a member of the faculty. He discusses the history of the Africana Studies program, which he chaired from 1989 until his retirement in 2006. Stakeman also discusses his position as Acting Dean of Students, which he held for a brief period of time early in his career. He worked diligently to help bridge the achievement gap between black and white students. Stakeman partnered with faculty across the college to give special attention and support to underachieving students. He remembers fondly the role of the John B. Russwurm Center, where black students could congregate and find support. He says the house created a community, which he cherished.
Interview with Robert Johnson (Class of 1971) by Aisha Rickford
Date: 2019-11-10
Creator: Robert Johnson
Access: Open access
- Robert Johnson, Class of 1971, talks about his first visit to Bowdoin in 1967 with a friend, and being involved with BUCRO, the Bowdoin Undergraduate Civil Rights Organization. There, he met Virgil Logan, president of BUCRO and an instrumental face on campus and in the Bowdoin African American Society. Johnson details how Afam came about after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr out of a desire to form community. Johnson then became the first President of the AfroAm at Bowdoin College. Johnson talks about how critical AfAm was for him and fellow black students isolated from their respective communities and drove black students to organize, and change racist systems. He shares stories of activism and resistance carried out on campus, specifically one where the black students on campus went silent and marched across campus to protest the lack of action on part of the Bowdoin administration as far as ensuring racial diversity in future classes. He also talks about racial incidents at Bowdoin and how Bowdoin shaped him in the years during and after graduation.
Interview with Daniel Levine by Marina Henke
Date: 2019-11-09
Creator: Daniel Levine
Access: Open access
- Daniel Levine shares stories from his time working as the Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of History and Political Science between 1963 and 2006. As the first professor to teach a course directly addressing themes of black Americans, Levine charts his own path towards topics of racial injustice and the civil rights movement, beginning as a Jewish American growing up in New York City. He details Bayard Rustin’s visit to campus in 1964 and how the civil rights activist enthusiastically interacted with members of the black student body. Levine describes the environment of his classrooms, and how both he and students embarked on unchartered territory towards exploring elements of the academic cannon that the College had been reluctant to delve into. Levine shares stories of his other colleagues at the time, including Randy Stakeman, Professor of History and Africana Studies.
Interview with Awa Diaw (Class of 2011) by Aisha Rickford
Date: 2019-11-09
Creator: Awa Diaw
Access: Open access
- Awa Diaw ‘11 talks about the experience of moving from the diverse community of Harlem, New York to snowy Brunswick, ME, and how it was one of her first times being around white students in an academic setting, which she calls a “cultural transition.” Diaw, reflects on learning to use Bowdoin’s resources and how to get support where she needed it, and recalls incidents of racial bias experienced by Bowdoin students during her time at the College. One of these culminated in a moment in Diaw’s junior year when, frustrated with the administration’s response to a particularly disturbing incident, Diaw and a committee of other students created a campaign called I Am Bowdoin, which elevated the voices of students who felt marginalized at Bowdoin.
Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections: Part 1: The Bowdoin Drawings
Date: 1885-01-01
Creator: Henry Johnson
Access: Open access
- Catalogue from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
The draw-a-computational-creativity-researcher test (DACCRT): Exploring stereotypic images and descriptions of computational creativity
Date: 2019-01-01
Creator: Sarah Harmon, Katie McDonough
Access: Open access
- Prior work investigating student perceptions of scientists has revealed commonly-held beliefs, stereotypes, and even connections to career choices. We adapt the “Draw-A-Scientist” instrument to examine how undergraduates depict computational creativity researchers and the field of computational creativity as a whole. Our results indicate that there are significant differences when students are asked to draw or describe a computer scientist versus a computational creativity researcher. Whether the student is an upper-level or introductory computer science student appears to also influence responses.
Catalogue of the Bowdoin Drawings
Date: 1881-01-01
Creator: Frederick Winslow
Access: Open access
- Catalogue from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
"COVID-19 Portfolio" by Meg Janes (Class of 2020)
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Meg Janes
Access: Open access
- Portfolio entries about exercising, online shopping, advertisements, and social media, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author is class of 2022. GSWS 2261 / CINE 2261
“I Never Saw as Good a Nature Show Before”: Walt Disney, Environmental Education, and the True-Life Adventures
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Charles Dorn
Access: Open access
- Alongside Walt Disney’s animated movies, television programming, and theme parks, scholars have examined The Walt Disney Studios’ True-Life Adventures series of live-action nature documentary films for their impact on popular culture. Historians, however, have mostly overlooked the significance of the True-Life Adventures for student learning about the natural world. Amending this historiographical shortcoming, this essay examines Disney’s innovative approach to wildlife filmmaking, describes viewers’ reactions to the True-Life Adventures’ educational qualities, and investigates the Studios’ efforts to use the films to enter the education market. The study breaks new ground by analyzing seldom accessed documents preserved in theWalt Disney Archives both to reveal how students, teachers, and college and university faculty responded to the films and to examine the extension of the nature documentaries through related media.
Swarm-based path creation in dynamic environments for search and rescue
Date: 2012-01-01
Creator: William K. Richard, Stephen M. Majercik
Access: Open access
Digital Humanities and Italian Studies: Intersections and Oppositions
Date: 2019-07-03
Creator: Crystal Hall
Access: Open access
- This article examines the relationship between two fields of study, Italian Studies and Digital Humanities (DH), by documenting projects that employ digital or computational methods in the study of Italian language, literature, history, and the arts. In a complementary fashion, the author outlines the analytical questions of Italian scholars that have potential to advance inquiry in DH. A final section is devoted to contextualizing DH within the practice of Italian Studies at the institutional, program, and department levels by drawing on research of course offerings and a survey circulated in August 2017. The overall finding is that the area of overlap between DH and Italian Studies is intellectually rich, with increasing (yet still sparse) opportunities to develop specialization in this area.
Promoting the "Public Welfare" in Wartime: Stanford University during World War II
Date: 2005-11-01
Creator: Charles Dorn
Access: Open access
- As with many U.S. colleges and universities during World War II, Stanford University responded to the demands of mobilization by increasing its commitment to technical training and adopting a defense research agenda. In a striking departure from this national trend, however, Stanford also established its School of Humanities in 1942. By examining such seemingly disparate pursuits, this study reveals the complexity of the challenges that confronted institutions of higher education throughout the war era. Stanford University's simultaneous embrace of these programs illuminates broad concerns regarding the role of higher education in fostering civic-mindedness in a society denned by rapid technological advance and the perception of an ever-increasing threat to national security. © 2005 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
Voluntary sustainability standards could significantly reduce detrimental impacts of global agriculture
Date: 2019-02-05
Creator: W. K. Smith, E. Nelson, J. A. Johnson, S. Polasky, J. C., Milder, J. S. Gerber, P. C. West, S. Siebert, K. A. Brauman
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- Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) are stakeholder-derived principles with measurable and enforceable criteria to promote sustainable production outcomes. While institutional commitments to use VSS to meet sustainable procurement policies have grown rapidly over the past decade, we still have relatively little understanding of the (i) direct environmental benefits of large-scale VSS adoption; (ii) potential perverse indirect impacts of adoption; and (iii) implementation pathways. Here, we illustrate and address these knowledge gaps using an ecosystem service modeling and scenario analysis of Bonsucro, the leading VSS for sugarcane. We find that global compliance with the Bonsucro environmental standards would reduce current sugarcane production area (−24%), net tonnage (−11%), irrigation water use (−65%), nutrient loading (−34%), and greenhouse gas emissions from cultivation (−51%). Under a scenario of doubled global sugarcane production, Bonsucro adoption would further limit water use and greenhouse gas emissions by preventing sugarcane expansion into water-stressed and high-carbon stock ecosystems. This outcome was achieved via expansion largely on existing agricultural lands. However, displacement of other crops could drive detrimental impacts from indirect land use. We find that over half of the potential direct environmental benefits of Bonsucro standards under the doubling scenario could be achieved by targeting adoption in just 10% of global sugarcane production areas. However, designing policy that generates the most environmentally beneficial Bonsucro adoption pathway requires a better understanding of the economic and social costs of VSS adoption. Finally, we suggest research directions to advance sustainable consumption and production.
Evaluating democracy: The 1946 U.S. education mission to Germany
Date: 2005-06-01
Creator: Charles Dorn
Access: Open access
- Following World War II, a group of American educators was assigned the task of evaluating the U.S. military government's program for reconstructing Germany's educational system. Although issuing a generally positive report, this education mission identified a number of persistent tensions that ultimately undermined America's efforts to rehabilitate and reform German schooling. As with the American occupation of Germany during the postwar era, current U.S. foreign policy directives include establishing educational institutions in the "broader Middle East" as a primary mechanism for inculcating democratic values and ideals. Determining America's success with these efforts, especially in ideologically conservative nations, poses a significant challenge to evaluators. Through an analysis of the 1946 Report of the United States Education Mission to Germany, this article presents a historical case study of the stumbling blocks, failings, and successes of one attempt to evaluate efforts in infusing democratic values into educational institutions in a fallen totalitarian state. © 2005 American Evaluation Association.
DC-SSAT: A divide-and-conquer approach to solving stochastic satisfiability problems efficiently
Date: 2005-12-01
Creator: Stephen M. Majercik, Byron Boots
Access: Open access
- We present DC-SSAT, a sound and complete divide-and-conquer algorithm for solving stochastic satisfiability (SSAT) problems that outperforms the best existing algorithm for solving such problems (ZANDER) by several orders of magnitude with respect to both time and space. DC-SSAT achieves this performance by dividing the SSAT problem into subproblems based on the structure of the original instance, caching the viable partial assignments (VPAs) generated by solving these subproblems, and using these VPAs to construct the solution to the original problem. DC-SSAT does not save redundant VPAs and each VPA saved is necessary to construct the solution. Furthermore, DC-SSAT builds a solution that is already human-comprehensible, allowing it to avoid the costly solution rebuilding phase in ZANDER. As a result, DC-SSAT is able to solve problems using, typically, 1-2 orders of magnitude less space than ZANDER, allowing DC-SSAT to solve problems ZANDER cannot solve due to space constraints. And, in spite of its more parsimonious use of space, DC-SSAT is typically 1-2 orders of magnitude faster than ZANDER. We describe the DC-SSAT algorithm and present empirical results comparing its performance to that of ZANDER on a set of SSAT problems. Copyright © 2005, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
Interview with DeRay Mckesson (Class of 2007) by Nate DeMoranville
Date: 2019-11-09
Creator: DeRay Mckesson
Access: Open access
- DeRay Mckesson ’08 was a two-time president of Bowdoin Student Government, and instituted many of the programming and policies that are in place today. Mckesson shares how during his tenure he transferred several powers of the presidency onto the Executive Committee. He tasked this body with selecting members for BSG’s General Assembly but also with selecting students for institutional committees. Mckesson reaffirms his belief in the Bowdoin community, which he considers unique for its collection of highly capable individuals who believe in the bigness of the world. He discusses how he strove always to imagine new ways to serve the community and built meaningful relationships with faculty, staff, and students.
Reflections questionnaire response by Anonymous on March 24, 2021
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Anonymous
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- This is a response to the Documenting Bowdoin & COVID-19 Reflections Questionnaire. The questionnaire was created in March 2021 by staff of Bowdoin's George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives. Author is class of 2022.