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Students accepted to 'Next Generation' exhibit
Friday, February 16, 2001 1:55 pm
Six studio art majors from Bates College have had work accepted to a juried exhibit titled The Next Generation, which opens Thursday, Feb. 22, and runs through Saturday, March 24, at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport. An opening reception will be held Saturday, Feb. 24, at the museum.
Classical concert at Bates, then to Carnegie Hall
Friday, February 16, 2001 1:45 pm
Scott Murphree, baritone, and Alvin Novak, pianist, will perform commissioned works by contemporary composers Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, Ned Rorem, John Gruen and Francis Poulenc for this year's Alice S. Esty concert Friday, March 2, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
Alumni to discuss autism
Monday, February 12, 2001 1:36 pm
Jessica Lord '98, a graduate student in the clinical psychology program at the University of Connecticut, will lecture on the biological correlates of autism on Thursday, Feb. 15, in Room 113 of Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave.
Neil Simon's "The Good Doctor" to be performed
Friday, February 2, 2001 1:28 pm
Neil Simon's play The Good Doctor will be performed at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9 and Saturday, Feb. 10, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11, in the Gannett Theater, 305 College St. Tickets are $6 and $3 for students and seniors.
Organ trio Soulive brings funk, soul and jazz
Friday, February 2, 2001 1:21 pm
Soulive, an organ trio blending funk, jazz and soul music, will perform at 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Bates College. Tickets are $5 and will be sold at the door.
Pianist Duncan J. Cumming performs
Thursday, February 1, 2001 1:14 pm
Pianist Duncan J. Cumming, a native of Maine and a Bates alumnus, returns to Bates College to perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11 in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. The performance is free and open to the public.
Contemporary guitarist Claudio Calmens to perform
Thursday, February 1, 2001 1:06 pm
Claudio Calmens, a contemporary guitarist from Argentina, will perform a program of modern works at 8 p.m Friday, Feb. 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall of Bates College. The concert is free and open to the public.
Maine writer Monica Wood to read
Thursday, February 1, 2001 9:57 am
Maine writer Monica Wood will read from her recent works at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, 70 Campus Ave. The reading is free and open to the public.
Faculty members awarded professorships
Wednesday, January 31, 2001 9:41 am
Bates College has awarded newly endowed professorships to faculty members Jane Costlow and James Parakilas, announced Donald W. Harward, president of Bates College. Costlow, professor of Russian and East Asian languages and literature, is the inaugural Christian A. Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies. Parakilas, professor of music, is the inaugural James L. Moody Jr. Family Professor of Performing Arts.
Colby, Bates and Bowdoin create online library catalog
Monday, January 29, 2001 9:35 am
Colby, Bates and Bowdoin colleges are pleased to introduce Maine's first statewide online library catalog. On January 4, the Maine Info Net system was turned on and the Colby, Bates and Bowdoin library collections, with more than two million items, became available to participating libraries throughout the state.