Bowdoin College Chooses First Female President

The Bowdoin College (ME) Board of Trustees has elected the first woman to lead the college in its 229-year history. Safa Zaki, the current dean of faculty and a professor of psychology at Williams College in Massachusetts, will be the sixteenth president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, the board announced Thursday. She succeeds Clayton Rose, who announced last year he was stepping down after eight years as president.