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Bates performances hit crescendo in November
Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:29 pm
With student performances of music and drama and a recital by Maine's best-known pianist in store, the days before Thanksgiving have a lot to offer in the arts at Bates College.
Grant fuels professor's dioxin, heart disease research
Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:23 pm
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has awarded Rebecca J. Sommer, assistant professor of biology at Bates College, a grant of $132,883 to investigate the impact of dioxin on early cardiac development.
Federal grant advances professor's research into dioxin-heart disease link
Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:46 pm
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has awarded Rebecca J. Sommer, assistant professor of biology at Bates College, a grant of $132,883 to investigate the impact of dioxin on early cardiac development.
Porters' Progress founder visits Bates College to describe work in Nepal
Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:42 pm
Ben Ayers, a 1999 Bates College graduate and founder of an organization that supports expeditionary porters in Nepal, brings a presentation about Porters' Progress to Bates at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20 in the Benjamin Mays center, 95 Russell St. Ayers' presentation is open to the public at no charge.
What the national publications are saying about Bates
Monday, November 11, 2002 4:00 pm
National college guides and magazines continue to rank Bates College among the best liberal arts colleges in the nation.
Students perform Oscar Wilde's breakthrough comedy
Wednesday, November 6, 2002 2:51 pm
The Bates College theater department presents a production of Lady Windermere's Fan,the comedy that made Oscar Wilde the toast of London, in the Gannett Theater at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1, 2, 8 and 9, and 2 p.m. Nov. 3 and 10. Admission is $6 ($3 for Bates faculty and staff, senior citizens, and non-Bates students). The theater is in Pettigrew Hall, Andrews Road, on the Bates campus.
Activists discuss creation of land trusts for low-income families in Spiritual Journey series
Tuesday, November 5, 2002 4:05 pm
Rosemary Haughton and Nancy Schwoyer will describe the creation of Wellspring House, a shelter, center for social justice and land-trust enterprise a lecture titled "Change and Exchange
New Testament scholar and best-selling novelist to deliver annual Zerby lecture
Tuesday, November 5, 2002 3:59 pm
Marcus J. Borg, best-selling author and Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture, Oregon University, will give a presentation titled "The Bible: Instrument of Oppression or Liberation?" at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue, at Bates College.
Richard Russo to read at Bates for annual Writer's Harvest
Tuesday, November 5, 2002 3:50 pm
Richard Russo, the Camden author who won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his novel "Empire Falls," reads from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend the event, part of the Writers Harvest, the annual literary benefit to fight hunger and poverty sponsored by the national hunger organization Share Our Strength (SOS). Donations will be accepted and proceeds will benefit the Maine Coalition for Food Security and the Good Shepherd Food Bank.
Author to discuss contemporary Native American women artists
Tuesday, November 5, 2002 3:42 pm
Phoebe Farris, editor of the book "Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas" (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999), and professor of art, design and women's studies at Purdue University, discusses contemporary female Native American artists at 4:10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend at no charge.