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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.

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Thursday October 20, 2011 10:00 am	Food scholar presents cultural history of the fork A lecture series exploring the role of material culture in the humanities and social sciences continues with a cultural history of the fork by Darra Goldstein, founding editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).
Thursday October 20, 2011 8:00 am	BatesNews Monthly Update: October 2011 For Bates alumni, parents and friends, here is a look some of the major Bates events and achievements of the…
Wednesday October 19, 2011 5:16 pm	Presidential search update forums on campus Oct. 28 Members of the Bates campus community are invited to meet with the Presidential Search Committee on Oct. 28 for a discussion forum and an update on the search for the college’s next leader.
Tuesday October 18, 2011 3:21 pm	NOVA intern Sarah Charley ’11 starts with a joke Sarah Charley ’11 explains the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and how an electron can sometimes be like a “sheet crumpled into a ball” and other times like a “quilt spread across a bed”
Tuesday October 18, 2011 3:12 pm	Pioneering photographer of American West to be discussed Art historian Weston Naef discusses the work of Carleton Watkinds, a photographer who documented the American West in its last years of pristine beauty, in a lecture at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.
Tuesday October 18, 2011 1:35 pm	The Root features interview with King V. Cheek ’59, former HBCU president The Root, in collaboration with The HistoryMakers, offers reflections from educational leader King V. Cheek Jr. ’59. With his brother…
Tuesday October 18, 2011 1:11 pm	Patch interviews encaustic artist Amy Keller '87 South End Patch reporter Christopher Treacy interviews encaustic artist Amy Keller ’87 of Kingston, Mass., about her work and about…
Monday October 17, 2011 4:05 pm	Events Schedule: November 2011 Hello from Bates! Here’s a preview of public events at the college during November 2011.
Monday October 17, 2011 9:55 am	Medieval scholars visit to discuss 'Responses to Hard Times' With an economic recession, lengthy overseas wars and a run of natural disasters hitting the U.S. and other lands, these are trying times. Yet scholars visiting Bates for the Medieval Miseries: Responses to Hard Times conference know that things could be even tougher. Bates hosts the 38th annual New England Medieval Conference on Saturday, Oct. 22, in Room G65, Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).
Saturday October 15, 2011 12:00 am	Asking Bates to welcome change, President Hansen made Bates’ framework firmer In her final Bates interview, outgoing Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen talks about the college meeting challenges by being “alive to change.”

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BatesNews Monthly Update: October 2011

For Bates alumni, parents and friends, here is a look some of the major Bates events and achievements of the…

Presidential search update forums on campus Oct. 28

Members of the Bates campus community are invited to meet with the Presidential Search Committee on Oct. 28 for a discussion forum and an update on the search for the college’s next leader.

NOVA intern Sarah Charley ’11 starts with a joke

Sarah Charley ’11 explains the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and how an electron can sometimes be like a “sheet crumpled into a ball” and other times like a “quilt spread across a bed”

Pioneering photographer of American West to be discussed

Art historian Weston Naef discusses the work of Carleton Watkinds, a photographer who documented the American West in its last years of pristine beauty, in a lecture at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Tuesday

October 18, 2011
1:35 pm

The Root features interview with King V. Cheek ’59, former HBCU president

The Root, in collaboration with The HistoryMakers, offers reflections from educational leader King V. Cheek Jr. ’59. With his brother…

Tuesday

October 18, 2011
1:11 pm

Patch interviews encaustic artist Amy Keller '87

South End Patch reporter Christopher Treacy interviews encaustic artist Amy Keller ’87 of Kingston, Mass., about her work and about…

Monday

October 17, 2011
4:05 pm

Events Schedule: November 2011

Hello from Bates! Here’s a preview of public events at the college during November 2011.

Monday

October 17, 2011
9:55 am

Medieval scholars visit to discuss 'Responses to Hard Times'

With an economic recession, lengthy overseas wars and a run of natural disasters hitting the U.S. and other lands, these are trying times. Yet scholars visiting Bates for the Medieval Miseries: Responses to Hard Times conference know that things could be even tougher. Bates hosts the 38th annual New England Medieval Conference on Saturday, Oct. 22, in Room G65, Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).

Saturday

October 15, 2011
12:00 am

Asking Bates to welcome change, President Hansen made Bates’ framework firmer

In her final Bates interview, outgoing Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen talks about the college meeting challenges by being “alive to change.”