Mellon Learning Associates Program in the Humanities enhances students learning experience

The Bobcat looks forward to May 15, when Bates seeks 555 additional alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day. Photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College

Alumni make May 15 a “great day”

Post by: Victoria Stanton on Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Bates reaches 599 new alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day.

Matthew Auer, Indiana University honors dean, named Bates College vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty

Post by: Bates News on Monday, May 13, 2013

A leading scholar and globally engaged expert, Auer is also a dynamic and effective academic leader, said Bates President Clayton Spencer.

Bates expects to award bachelor's degree to approximately 450 students, representing 35 U.S. states and 28 countries, on May 26. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

2013 Commencement honorary degrees announced; address by Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg

Post by: Bates News on Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The honorary degree candidates “show us how the values that define the Bates experience can shape, and take shape in, the world,” said President Spencer.

Published on	Description

Friday January 30, 2004 10:07 am	Mellon Learning Associates Program in the Humanities enhances students learning experience Thanks to the New York-based Andrew Mellon Foundation, a Spanish poet and three Maine experts in the performing arts will join author Carolyn Chute and others in a learning associates program at Bates College.
Friday January 30, 2004 9:20 am	Bates College Orchestra and pioneering American composer to perform in weekend concerts In a big weekend for music, the Bates College music department offers a concert by the college orchestra and one by pioneering American composer Pauline Oliveros.
Thursday January 29, 2004 10:52 am	'Lonely Planets' author to discuss extraterrestrial life David Grinspoon, whose “Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life” was published in November by HarperCollins, begins his talk at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road. Sponsored by Sigma Xi and the departments of geology and physics, the talk is open to the public free of charge.
Thursday January 29, 2004 10:42 am	Feminist theologian to deliver annual Zerby lecture at Bates Judith Plaskow, author of the landmark text “Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective” (HarperCollins, 1991) and professor of religious studies at Manhattan College, will give a presentation titled “Asking the Right Questions: The Development of Jewish Women’s Studies” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5 (snow date: Thursday, Feb., 12), in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Avenue.
Wednesday January 28, 2004 4:12 pm	Cultural historian to discuss rock 'n' roll Glenn C. Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at Cornell University, will discuss “The Day the Music Died: The Conspiracy Against Rock ‘n Roll in the Late 1950s” at 4:15 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 12, Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall. The public is invited to attend the talk, sponsored by the Department of History and the American studies program, free of charge.
Wednesday January 28, 2004 8:43 am	Princeton scholar to discuss memory and civil rights in Bates lecture Valerie Smith, director of Princeton University’s program in African American studies and a member of the Bates College Class of 1975, gives a lecture titled “Memory and the United States Civil Rights Movement” at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend the talk, sponsored by the Multicultural Center, free of charge.
Tuesday January 27, 2004 4:22 pm	Brunswick poet's Spiritual Journeys talk at Bates canceled The talk by Brunswick poet and teacher Gary Lawless, “Poetry as a Path of Pilgrimage,” scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, has been canceled.
Tuesday January 27, 2004 4:14 pm	Jazz pianist, Grammy Award-winning cellist to perform Joined by renowned jazz pianist Tim Ray, Grammy Award-winning cellist Eugene Friesen comes to Bates College for a performance at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
Tuesday January 27, 2004 11:03 am	Fulbright grant brings expert in Indonesian music, puppetry to Bates Thanks to the college’s first-ever grant from the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program, an expert in traditional Indonesian forms of music and shadow puppetry is currently in residence at Bates College.
Monday January 26, 2004 11:08 am	Jean Kilbourne, ad critic and 'Lecturer of the Year,' to speak Internationally recognized for her pioneering work on how advertising represents alcohol, tobacco and the image of women, author Jean Kilbourne offers a slide presentation titled “The Naked Truth: Advertising’s Image of Women” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Published on

Description

Friday

January 30, 2004
10:07 am

Thanks to the New York-based Andrew Mellon Foundation, a Spanish poet and three Maine experts in the performing arts will join author Carolyn Chute and others in a learning associates program at Bates College.

Friday

January 30, 2004
9:20 am

Bates College Orchestra and pioneering American composer to perform in weekend concerts

In a big weekend for music, the Bates College music department offers a concert by the college orchestra and one by pioneering American composer Pauline Oliveros.

Thursday

January 29, 2004
10:52 am

'Lonely Planets' author to discuss extraterrestrial life

David Grinspoon, whose “Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life” was published in November by HarperCollins, begins his talk at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road. Sponsored by Sigma Xi and the departments of geology and physics, the talk is open to the public free of charge.

Thursday

January 29, 2004
10:42 am

Feminist theologian to deliver annual Zerby lecture at Bates

Judith Plaskow, author of the landmark text “Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective” (HarperCollins, 1991) and professor of religious studies at Manhattan College, will give a presentation titled “Asking the Right Questions: The Development of Jewish Women’s Studies” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5 (snow date: Thursday, Feb., 12), in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Avenue.

Wednesday

January 28, 2004
4:12 pm

Cultural historian to discuss rock 'n' roll

Glenn C. Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at Cornell University, will discuss “The Day the Music Died: The Conspiracy Against Rock ‘n Roll in the Late 1950s” at 4:15 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 12, Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall. The public is invited to attend the talk, sponsored by the Department of History and the American studies program, free of charge.

Wednesday

January 28, 2004
8:43 am

Princeton scholar to discuss memory and civil rights in Bates lecture

Valerie Smith, director of Princeton University’s program in African American studies and a member of the Bates College Class of 1975, gives a lecture titled “Memory and the United States Civil Rights Movement” at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend the talk, sponsored by the Multicultural Center, free of charge.

Tuesday

January 27, 2004
4:22 pm

Brunswick poet's Spiritual Journeys talk at Bates canceled

The talk by Brunswick poet and teacher Gary Lawless, “Poetry as a Path of Pilgrimage,” scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, has been canceled.

Tuesday

January 27, 2004
4:14 pm

Jazz pianist, Grammy Award-winning cellist to perform

Joined by renowned jazz pianist Tim Ray, Grammy Award-winning cellist Eugene Friesen comes to Bates College for a performance at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Tuesday

January 27, 2004
11:03 am

Fulbright grant brings expert in Indonesian music, puppetry to Bates

Thanks to the college’s first-ever grant from the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program, an expert in traditional Indonesian forms of music and shadow puppetry is currently in residence at Bates College.

Monday

January 26, 2004
11:08 am

Jean Kilbourne, ad critic and 'Lecturer of the Year,' to speak

Internationally recognized for her pioneering work on how advertising represents alcohol, tobacco and the image of women, author Jean Kilbourne offers a slide presentation titled “The Naked Truth: Advertising’s Image of Women” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.