Work is well underway on Barry Mills Hall and the John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies, innovative buildings both for their style and for their building materials.

Listen to all six of Bowdoin's a cappella groups perform for the end-of-semester holiday concert.

Largely due to the disruptions of the pandemic, Bowdoin graduated many more seniors halfway through the academic year than it typically does. Thirty-nine Bowdoin students were celebrated for completing their bachelor degrees mid-year.

Tim Ryan '98, Bowdoin's Ashmead White Director of Athletics, reflects on athletics' return to action this past semester—first-years and sophomores who had not previously participated in collegiate competition, seniors returning to their sports for the first time since their sophomore year, and the challenges associated with competition amid COVID-19.

With the conclusion of the fall sports season, 138 Polar Bears were recognized in the New England Small College Athletic Conference’s All-Academic and All-Sportsmanship awards handed out earlier this month. 

An exclusive group of Polar Bears received their sports’ highest honors following the conclusion of their fall seasons by being named All-Americans. Cori Gray '22 and Sophia Pahl '22 were named All-American for the volleyball team, Drake Byrd '21 collected All-American honors for men’s soccer, and Faith Jennings ’23 and Georgie Coetzer '23 were recognized as All-Americans for field hockey. 

With a number of winter sports underway—and some about to start in January—complete schedules and links to live coverage can be found on the Composite Schedule page at GoUBears.com.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Class of 1825 silhouette portrait imposed on 1950-era photograph of the “Rainy Day Room” in the poet’s childhood home in Portland, Maine, from the Collections of the Maine Historical Society.

Online learning descended upon the Bowdoin campus with precipitous speed in Spring 2020, a necessity wrought by COVID-19, which brought normal campus life as we all knew it to a screeching halt. At the time, this style of learning struck us as completely foreign to the Bowdoin residential experience. And yet, distant learning was not new to Bowdoin, just another forgotten aspect of the College’s long history. A full third of Bowdoin's famous Class of 1825 studied remotely their first year.