RE LOG Spring '25

34 Ransom Everglades LOG SPRING 2025 Sindhu Talluri ’25 explains her summer research during the Bowden Fellows Gallery Night Rachel Rodriguez, John A. King Jr., Jeffrey Miller ’79 , Tina Miller, Thomas Bowden Student News ‘This has come to life’ Bowden fellows share summer humanities projects on gallery night The Class of 2025 Dan Leslie Bowden Fellows in the Humanities traveled to destinations across the globe – Vietnam, Argentina, Thailand, Maine, Texas and the Appalachian Trail – to explore and learn as they pursued their independent research projects in the humanities last summer. The eighth class of fellows immersed themselves in different cultures; conducted interviews; and collected and analyzed data in their quests to better understand what makes us human. They worked separately on their personal projects until December 9, when the seven fellows came together to share their work with poise and confidence at the annual Bowden Fellows Gallery Night. Adrian Jagodzinski ’25, Jordan James ’25, Kenzie Kaplan ’25, Beatriz Lindemann ’25, Lucas Lippey ’25, Ethan Sullivan ’25 and Sindhu Talluri ’25 provided project summaries on the Lewis Family Auditorium stage and then answered questions in front of project displays at the Solomon Art Gallery. for the Bowden fellows’ program director. To open the gallery night, King introduced the fellows and thanked the students’ faculty mentors and former Bowden student Jeffrey Miller ’79 , whose seed donation in 2016 created the Dan Leslie Bowden Endowment in the Humanities. “This has come to life,” Miller said. “This was done for Mr. Bowden’s legacy, and these kids just have carried it on and made it all happen the way he envisioned it ... This is exactly what Mr. Bowden wanted.” “Working independently was never truly independent because of the incredible support of my fellow Bowden Fellows,” Talluri said. “All of these people that I was able to become such close friends with over the course of this past year have shaped me both as a person and also in my research.” As the fellows finalized their projects, they ordered specially designed sweatshirts that included a drawing of Associate Head of School John A. King Jr., a gesture that showed their affection