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Darcy York ’05 makes a present of Bates’ past
Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:47 am
As a history major, Darcy York '05 will spend her senior year researching how the Romans viewed women who led peoples conquered by the empire, women such as Cleopatra.
Hip-hop legend Rennie Harris presents 'Facing Mekka' at Bates Dance Festival
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:12 am
Philadelphia’s Rennie Harris, one of hip-hop’s leading ambassadors worldwide, brings his company, Puremovement, back to the Bates Dance Festival for the 2004 Maine premiere of Facing Mekka, a work co-commissioned by the festival and conceived at Bates in 1998. The festival presents Rennie Harris Puremovement in concert at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, July 22-24, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 25, in Schaeffer Theatre, College Street. Tickets are $25/$15 (students and seniors) and may be purchased by calling 207-786-6161 after July 10. (Facing Mekka is appropriate for people of all ages.)
Bates Dance Festival opens 22nd season with hoi polloi
Thursday, July 8, 2004 1:30 pm
The Bates Dance Festival, celebrating its 22nd season of producing contemporary dance, presents hoi polloi in concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 17, in Schaeffer Theatre, College Street. A discussion with the artists immediately follows the concert.
Bates creates Environmental Task Force
Tuesday, July 6, 2004 2:08 pm
At the request of college President Elaine Tuttle Hansen, students, staff and faculty at Bates College have created an environmental task force.
Elizabeth Wanless '04 heads for Olympic trials in shot put
Tuesday, July 6, 2004 11:57 am
Elizabeth Wanless '04, a four-time All-America and two-time NCAA Division III champion in the shot put, will compete in the qualifying round of the Olympic trials July 15 in Sacramento, Calif.
Elizabeth Wanless '04 just short of Olympic trial shot put final
Tuesday, July 6, 2004 11:24 am
Liz Wanless '04 (Belleville, Ill.) was just one spot shy of qualifying for the finals of the U.S. Olympic women's shot put trials on Thursday, finishing 13th in the preliminary round with a throw of 51 feet, three inches.
Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series has something for everyone
Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:21 pm
An accordion band, a "world jazz" ensemble and an award-winning fiddler are among the attractions in 2004's expanded Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series.
Psychology professor wins educator award
Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:38 am
Kathryn Graff Low, associate professor of psychology at Bates and a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 1978, won the Bowdoin Alumni Council's 2004 Distinguished Educator Award, presented at the Brunswick college's reunion in early June. Given annually, the award was established in 1964 to recognize outstanding achievement in education by a Bowdoin alumnus in any field and at any level of education.
Lewiston High students to take part in research
Monday, June 14, 2004 11:24 am
Thanks to support from the National Science Foundation, a professor of chemistry at Bates College is bringing four Lewiston High School students to the college to help investigate the biochemistry of a particular category of viruses. Professor T. Glen Lawson and LHS biology teacher Jason Fuller are working together on this project that brings four advanced-placement students to Bates today through June 25. Mentored by two of Lawson's research students, the young people from LHS will help prepare cloned RNA from the encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) for use in experiments examining how the virus's RNA is replicated.
Bates welcomes academic career-services consortium
Monday, June 14, 2004 11:11 am
Bates College hosts the annual meeting of the Liberal Arts Career NetWORK, a consortium of the career-services operations of 28 selective U.S. liberal arts colleges, from June 15 to June 19.