Traditional Home magazine (March 2010)

The article, "First Best Nest," showcases the design skills of mother-daughter team Lauren McGrath '07 and Suzanne Grua McGrath, who earned five Emmys during 10 years with Martha Stewart Living Television. The article mentions the College and the duo's blog. Read the article.

Newsweek (February 22, 2010)

Yongfang Chen '10 and A True Liberal Arts Education (China Publishing Group, 2009), a book he co-authored about the merits of the liberal arts education model, are the subject of "Liberal Applications," an article examining the influx of applications from China to U.S. liberal arts colleges and the educational approach to encourage critical thinking.

"Liberal arts is about fostering your identity," says Chen in the article. "They want to cultivate your mind. You may not remember all the knowledge you've learned after four years, but they want you to know how to learn." Read the article.

Future Tense/American Public Media (February 16, 2010)

Associate Professor of Italian Arielle Saiber was invited to provide commentary for a story regarding the release of the action-adventure video game, Dante's Inferno. The segment compares and contrasts the source material, Dante Alighieri's epic poem, with its digital incarnation. The program is distributed to 97 radio stations around the country and made available as a podcast. Listen to the segment.

CBS Evening News with Katie Couric (February 9, 2010)

Dr. Shelley Hearne '83, managing director of the Pew Health Group at The Pew Charitable Trusts and a visiting professor at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, appeared in a segment investigating whether feeding antibiotics to healthy farm animals creates new drug-resistant bacteria that ultimately threaten human health.

"How does this go from the farm to the meat counter, to having an adverse effect on humans," asks Couric in an interview with Hearne. "If the bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics, it can actually spread in many ways," replies Hearne. "It could be in the food supply, but it also can be in waters that runoff in a farm. It could be in the air. It can happen very quickly in many different ways. It's why it's a practice that has to stop on the farms." Watch the segment.

The Atlantic (February 8, 2010))

Associate Professor of Italian Arielle Saiber, leading Dante expert and host of the popular Web site, Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture, is quoted in the article, "Dante Alighieri: Epic Poet, Ass Kicker," regarding the intersection of a much-hyped video game, Dante's Inferno, with the revered epic poem.

"I wouldn't say this project is damned from the get go," says Saiber in the article. "The hope is that the game will lead people back to the poem.” Read the article.

The Wall Street Journal (February 3, 2010)

The obituary, "Movie Producer Made Up Half of Media Power Couple," chronicles the life of David Brown, husband of Helen Gurley Brown.

"For both of them, [the marriage] was tied in with work and professional life," says Professor of Gender and Women's Studies Jennifer Scanlon, author of Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, in the article. "It was a no-nonsense relationship, and they liked that in each other." Read the article.

The New Yorker (February 1, 2010)

Melissa Roderick '83, an expert on urban education at the University of Chicago, is quoted in "Class Warrior," an article profiling U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Read the article.

Marketplace/American Public Media (January 28, 2010)

Deborah Jenson '83, professor of Romance studies, teaches Haiti's Creole language as well as French at Duke University and was interviewed about a crash course in cultural skills she developed for students and professors heading to Haiti. Listen to the segment.

The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 27, 2010)

Duke University Professor of Romance Studies Deborah Jenson '83 developed a crash course in Creole language and culture for people heading to Haiti. The article, "A New Course in Creole Prepares Students to Aid Haiti's Recovery," was written by former Orient co-editor-in-chief Mary Helen Miller ’09. Read the article.

The New York Times (January 26, 2010)

Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Thomas Jefferson — part of the permanent collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art — made it into the "Room For Debate" blog accompanying the compilation of commentary, "A New, Improved State of the Union?" See the image and read the blog.

The Huffington Post (January 22, 2010)

Geoffrey Canada '74, president and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, is profiled in the article, "Harlem's Miracle Man," which also examines the "cradle-to-college educational formula" behind the non-profit, community-based organization that works to enhance the quality of life for children and families in a 97-block area of New York City. Read the article.

Inside Higher Ed (January 22, 2010)

The article, "Students' 'Episodic' Engagement," details the presentation given by Associate Professor of Education Nancy Jennings and Associate Professor of Psychology Suzanne Lovett at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C., Thursday, January 21, 2010. Jennings and Lovett, researchers with the New England Consortium on Assessment and Student Learning, discussed work on a study into varying levels of student engagement. Read the article.

CNN (January 19, 2010)

The network's coverage of the earthquake in Haiti includes insight from Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History Allen Wells. In the Web article, "Before Quake, Signs of Hope for Haiti Tourism," Wells speaks of the how Haiti's deteriorating political situation over the years has destroyed the tourist industry once vibrant in the 1950s and '60s. "Their regimes have lasted very briefly, there have been coups, military governments have come in, there's been repression. This isn't an inviting environment for tourism," says Wells in the piece. Read the article.

The New York Times (January 19, 2010)

The parenting blog, Motherlode, posted the article, "Where Does a Mother's Time Go?", excerpting the January 17, 2010, Washington Post Magazine story, "The Test of Time: A Busy Working Mother Tries to Figure Out Where All Her Time is Going," which included insight and expertise from Bion R. Cram Professor of Economics Rachel Connelly. Read the New York Times article. Read the Washington Post Magazine article.

The Washington Post Magazine (January 17, 2010)

Thirty hours of leisure time each week. Women have at least that much downtime, says a University of Maryland sociologist. The examination of this statement — and the quest for all that time — are the focus of the cover story, "The Test of Time: A Busy Working Mother Tries to Figure Out Where All Her Time is Going," which taps the expertise of Bion R. Cram Professor of Economics Rachel Connelly.

"My mother was home all day, so on the weekend, what did she want to do? Get away from us as fast as she possibly could and take my father with her. They went out every Saturday night," Connelly says in the article. "But now, mothers are employed. We see it as essential that we spend time with our kids. We don't want to be away from them. On the other hand, we're never away from them." Read the article.

NBC Sports (January 16, 2010)

Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell '54 was presented the Theodore Roosevelt Award at the 2010 NCAA Convention's Honors and Delegates Celebration in Atlanta, Ga. The NCAA's highest honor, the award is presented each year to a former student-athlete for whom competitive athletics in college and attention to physical well being after graduation have been important factors in a distinguished career of national significance and achievement.

It is the second time a Bowdoin graduate has been honored with the award. Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen '62 was recognized with the award in 2001. Bowdoin joins Stanford, UCLA, the U.S. Naval Academy, Ohio State and the U.S. Military Academy as institutions with multiple "Teddy" award winners. Media outlets across the country also picked up the story.

CNN (January 12, 2010)

Todd Greene '89, whose HeadBlade invention changed the way folks shave their heads, is highlighted in CNN's "Going Solo" series about the options facing telecommuters, entrepreneurs and home-based business owners in the age of the Internet and innovative portable technology.

"I thought I'm either going to have to do this or I'm going to have to be prepared, five or 10 years from now, to go into a store and see somebody else making money with the same idea," Greene tells CNN. Read the article.

Bloomberg (January 5, 2010)

David Gordon ’71, head of research at Eurasia Group, is interviewed about the outlook for U.S.-China relations and discusses potential economic and political risks in Europe and Japan. Watch the segment.

Martha Stewart Living (January 2010)

The article, "Yarn with a Modern Twist," highlights the Lion Brand Yarn Studio, the flagship store of the 131-year-old yarn company in New York City. Among the many accompanying photographs is an image of a scarf modeled by Nadira Adams '06, who's identified in the caption as Lion Brand's technical editor.

The San Francisco Chronicle (December 25, 2009)

The article profiles acclaimed poet and scholar Willis Barnstone '48, H'81 and his latest book, The Restored New Testament — A New Translation With Commentary, Including the Gnostic Gospels Thomas, Mary, and Judas (Norton, 2009), which seeks to restore the lyricism and mysticism of the Jesus story, and undo centuries of mistranslation designed to obscure the Jewish identity of the carpenter from Nazareth. Read the article.