Announcing a partnership with Northeastern’s Lou Institute in Portland will allow the college to expand STEM opportunities, including internships with local startups and a potential “4 plus 1” program for computer science majors. We can provide students with more academic and professional development opportunities. Autumn 2023 at the earliest.

An internship at the Institute is a new way for Bowdoin students to gain industry experience. Especially since the university is geographically very far from the tech hubs of Silicon Valley. These experiences, combined with an upcoming dual degree program, offer new avenues for Bowdoin’s computer science students to advance their careers.

The Roux Institute was founded in November 2020 with a $100 million donation from David Roux. Private He is the co-founder of equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Roux is a former Bowdoin board member who donated his $10 million to fund the construction of the Roux Center for the Environment in 2016. The Roux Institute is still in the process of building a permanent campus. The temporary campus at 100 Fore Street, Portland, currently hosts a number of master’s and postdoctoral programs in computer science, data science, biotechnology, and other related fields.

For Bowdoin students interested in exposure to these fields, the university’s partnership with the Lou Institute promises new opportunities. At Bowdoin, the Office of Career Exploration and Development (CXD) is working to offer summer research internships and entrepreneurship workshops to students at the Roux Institute.

Roxana Valdez ’24 was one of three Bowdoin students interning at the institute this summer. ComputersShe majors in scienceMs Valdez, a wearable embedded in her device biometric data that can detect the wearer’s level of concentration, distraction and depression Work on machine learning algorithms for her sensors I was.

To supplement his time in the lab, Valdez attended the Roux Institute’s “summit.”

“Just listening to these people and hearing what they have to say is interesting enough to change your career path,” Valdez said. “Honestly, I find it hard to believe that people who have graduated from graduate school are still interested in an undergraduate degree.[uates]”

Since the Roux Institute was founded during the pandemic, undergraduates were unable to take advantage of research opportunities until this summer. Those opportunities will develop as we build larger campuses and attract new faculty. The Institute is committed to growing Maine’s local economy, especially by advising and assisting in the formation of local start-up businesses.

Daniel Calles, Associate Director of CXD, said: “As these startups take hold, they [will] Need more help? “