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alumni at work: DeRay Mckesson 07 spoke to the Bowdoin community over Zoom on Tuesday evening, wearing his signature blue Patagonia vest. Civil Rights Activist and educator DeRay Mckesson ’07 joined Bowdoin students, alumni and families Tuesday evening via Zoom to speak on his experiences as an activist in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and as Director of the Council on Criminal Justice Task Force on Policing. The event was part of the College’s series of programming on Black History...

GIS: A Different Approach to History “Historians and history students are used to working with words on the page, says Professor of History Patrick Rael, “but for many years I had been wanting to incorporate a more spatial and data-driven approach to the subject.” That opportunity presented itself with the arrival on campus of geographer and statistical consultant Aaron Gilbreath in 2016. Aaron Gilbreath (top) and Patrick Rael They began devising a new course and for the first time Ameri...