Posts by Doug Hubley
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TuesdayMarch 31, 2009 |
Food-justice advocate Winne brings praise for Bates, advice for ObamaIf you think of the yearlong Bates Contemplates Food initiative as an arch built from many stones, Mark Winne ’72 set the moral keystone in place with a lecture on March 30. |
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TuesdayMarch 31, 2009 |
Bates, Guiding Stars to provide nutritional guidance for campus diningKnown for its progressive food-service practices, Bates has announced a pioneering partnership with the highly regarded nutrition navigation system Guiding Stars. First implemented in 2006 and now used in some 1,400 grocery stores, the science-based Guiding Stars system rates foods with zero to three stars highlighting items according to good, better or best nutritional value, respectively. |
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MondayMarch 30, 2009 |
Senior to use Watson award to study South African, Indonesian theaterWith the ultimate aim of teaching contemporary drama in her native Sri Lanka, a Bates College senior has received a 2009 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study performance arts in South Africa and Indonesia. Sulochana Dissanayake of Pita Kotte, Sri Lanka, is one of 40 recipients of the 2009 fellowship, a $28,000 award supporting a year of independent research abroad. |
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FridayMarch 27, 2009 |
Bates student helps two communities win $50,000 playground grantsIn a striking display of altruism and initiative, a Bates College first-year student collected enough yogurt lids to win a national contest. The prize: $100,000 in grants to help create and improve places for children to play for communities in Maine and Maryland. |
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ThursdayMarch 26, 2009 |
Winne '72 to discuss 'Food Justice and Good Food'Food activist Mark Winne ’72, author of the book Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty, gives a talk titled “Food Justice and Good Food – When Shall the Twain Meet?” at Bates on March 30. |
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ThursdayMarch 26, 2009 |
Joseph Hall's Wabanaki history course conveys hidden storiesInformation and knowledge are two different things. Teachers like Joseph Hall Jr. proffer the first, but their real work is leading students to the second. Hall does that so well that Bates students chose him for the prestigious 2009 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching. |
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TuesdayMarch 24, 2009 |
World Food Prize recipient to discuss global poverty, food crisis“The Global Food Crisis and World Poverty,” a talk by Cornell University professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen, takes place at Bates College on March 24, in an event sponsored by the economics department. |
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ThursdayMarch 19, 2009 |
Bates literary series presents 'Two Kinds of Decay' authorSarah Manguso, poet and author of the memoir The Two Kinds of Decay, reads from her work at Bates College on Thursday, March 19. |
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ThursdayMarch 19, 2009 |
Pulitzer-winning novelist Diaz to speak in Multicultural Center eventJunot Díaz, whose novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, speaks at Bates College on Friday, March 20. Wao, Díaz’s first novel, also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best novel of 2007 and appeared on more than 35 best-of-the-year book lists. |
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ThursdayMarch 12, 2009 |
'Bates Contemplates Food' presents alumni in two eventsBorealis Breads founder Jim Amaral ’80 and food activist-author Mark Winne ’72 are among Bates College alumni featured in two March events relating to the Nourishing Body and Mind: Bates Contemplates Food initiative. |