Stories from April 2007
Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies delivers inaugural lecture
Thursday, April 5, 2007 12:12 pm
In celebration of his four-year appointment as the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Bates College, historian Michael Jones delivers his inaugural lecture, "Famine, Metahistory, and Interdisciplinarity."
Musician Corey Harris '91 to speak at Bates Commencement on May 27
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 12:25 pm
Four honorary degree recipients will speak at Bates College's 141st commencement, on May 27. The honorands are children's book author Eric Carle, singer-songwriter Corey Harris '91, inventor-entrepreneur Dean Kamen and actor and author Anna Deavere Smith.
Slide show features Mount David Summit 2007
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 12:41 pm
Hundreds of Bates people and members of the local community flooded Pettengill Hall as the College mounted its sixth annual Mount David Summit on March 30.
Celebration Barn, Italian actor to present commedia dell'arte program
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 12:35 pm
An Italian actor expert in the influential stage genre called "commedia dell'arte" presents a workshop on the topic at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, in the Plavin Dance Studio, Merrill Gymnasium, 141 Russell Street.
Bates students participate in alternative spring break
Monday, April 2, 2007 1:16 pm
Twenty-four Bates College students and two chaperones head to Biloxi, Miss., April 15-20 for an "Alternative Spring Break" as Hands on Gulf Coast volunteers in a hurricane-ravaged community.
Bates receives national grant for community-based research fellowships
Monday, April 2, 2007 1:07 pm
Bates College is one of 11 institutions of higher education named by the National Community-Based Research Networking Initiative to receive funding for innovative community-based research projects.
Bates student receives prestigious Watson Fellowship
Monday, April 2, 2007 1:00 pm
Khoa Pham, a Bates College senior from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has received one of 50 prestigious research fellowships awarded by the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program.