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College invites local high school students to participate in viral research
Monday, June 14, 2004 10:41 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.
Alumni honored at Reunion
Saturday, June 12, 2004 11:37 am
Weston L. Bonney '50, a distinguished banker, longtime college Trustee and a volunteer who has worked tirelessly in Maine and abroad to advance education, arts and commerce, received the Benjamin Elijah Mays Medal, the College's highest alumni award, at the 136th Reunion Alumni Awards Ceremony on June 12.
Bates museum, MECA jointly present major Chinese artist
Wednesday, June 9, 2004 11:58 am
In a collaboration unusual for Maine's academic museums, the Bates College Museum of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, will jointly present an exhibition by Wenda Gu, one of the most important artists to emerge from China in recent decades.
Bates community aids Lewiston High School science fair
Tuesday, June 8, 2004 12:19 pm
Seventeen Lewiston High School students were honored for their work on 13 projects in the high school's fifth annual Science Fair, held May 6.
Roberts '04 receives Fulbright for musical research in Mongolia
Wednesday, June 2, 2004 12:36 pm
Michael P. Roberts, a recent Bates College graduate from Longmeadow, Mass., has received an award to support postgraduate research in Mongolia from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Gathering to celebrate life and work of deceased professor of mathematics
Wednesday, June 2, 2004 12:33 pm
Colleagues, relatives, friends and former students of Richard W. Sampson, a professor emeritus of mathematics at Bates College who passed away in April, will gather to celebrate his memory at 3:30 p.m. Friday, June 11, in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.
Bates College invites public to safe viewing of 'Transit of Venus'
Wednesday, June 2, 2004 12:27 pm
Faculty in the Bates College departments of geology and of physics and astronomy invite Lewiston-Auburn residents to a viewing of the highly anticipated "Transit of Venus," a rare solar system event, at dawn Tuesday, June 8.
Alumni, Trustees honor Andrews '74, Plavin with new facilities
Tuesday, June 1, 2004 12:58 pm
Alumni, alumni parents and friends of Bates College have raised more than…
Wanless wins NCAA shot put title
Tuesday, June 1, 2004 12:45 pm
Liz Wanless won the women's shot put at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a meet record throw to claim her second national shot put championship on Saturday afternoon at Millikin University.
'Be curious, compassionate, committed,' graduates told in 138th commencement
Monday, May 31, 2004 8:50 am
A beloved former dean of admissions was one of four eminent speakers to offer advice and counsel to 450 graduating Bates College seniors today during the college's 138th commencement ceremony.