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Wisconsin mathematician to speak
Tuesday, October 15, 2002 3:20 pm
Georgia Benkart, professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, visits Bates College to give the annual Sampson Lecture
Acclaimed pedagogue to speak
Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:33 pm
Parker J. Palmer, named one of the 30 "most influential senior leaders" in a national survey of faculty and staff in higher education, gives a talk titled "Leading From Within: Reflections on Leadership, Community and the Inner Life" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Avenue. Sponsored by the office of the Dean of the College at Bates College, the talk is open to the public at no charge.
Bates student players present David Ives' 'Red Address'
Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:29 pm
The Robinson Players, the independent student theater group at Bates College, presents six performances of David Ives' play The Red Address from Oct. 25 through Nov. 3 (8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays,. 2 p.m. Sundays) at The Ronj, the student-run coffeehouse on Frye Street. The performances are open to the public at no charge, although seating is extremely limited; no reservations will be accepted.
Panel to discuss U.S. invasion of Iraq
Wednesday, October 9, 2002 3:39 pm
A group of journalists, professors and activists present a panel discussion titled "War, What Is It Good For? Should the United States Invade Iraq," to be followed by a question-and-answer period, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the Benjamin Mays Center. The public is invited to attend this event, sponsored by the Bates Democrats, free of charge.
Senior receives American Mathematics Society award
Tuesday, October 8, 2002 4:21 pm
Challis J. E. Kinnucan, a Bates College senior from London, Ontario, has been awarded a $4,000 scholarship grant from the American Mathematical Society's Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky Fund.
Joel Babb shows landscapes at museum of art
Friday, October 4, 2002 4:23 pm
A major exhibition of Maine landscapes by Joel Babb, whose realist approach has made him a favorite with collectors all over the Northeast, opens at the Bates College Museum of Art.
'Passion: Soul Music of Southern Europe' visits
Wednesday, October 2, 2002 4:19 pm
Diverse in the stylistic details but united in their expressive power, three groups playing traditional music of southern Europe perform at the Bates College Chapel, College Street, at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21. Sponsored by the Bates Multicultural Center, this production titled "Passion: Soul Music of Southern Europe" is open to the public at no charge.
Children of war featured in film to be screened
Tuesday, October 1, 2002 4:26 pm
An Academy Award-nominated documentary film that features Israeli and Palestinian children, will be shown at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, in Room 204 of Pettengill Hall.
Cello-piano program spotlights Rachmaninoff sonata, work by Portland composer
Friday, September 27, 2002 8:40 am
Two expressive but seldom-heard compositions - one by Portland composer Elliott Cherry and the other Rachmaninoff's ultra-romantic Sonata in G Minor - headline a Bates College concert by cellist Kathleen Foster and pianist Martin Perry at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street. Admission is free.
Environmental gathering scrutinizes local landscape
Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:32 am
Two specialists in interpreting the natural landscape will discuss their impressions of lands protected by the Androscoggin Land Trust in 7 p.m. presentations on Saturday, Oct. 12, and Sunday, Oct. 13, at Bates College. The Saturday talk is in Chase Hall Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, and Sunday's event is in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road. The talks by plant ecologists Tom Wessels and Mitchell Thomashow, both of Antioch New England Graduate School, are open to the public at no charge.