Posts by Doug Hubley
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FridayMay 22, 2009 |
Passion, intensity drive Short Term offeringsAs students choose just one intensive course from a portfolio of offerings, Bates’ Short Term is amenable to all kinds of academic experimentation. But one of its most desirable qualities is the precious time it affords for sustained concentration. |
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FridayMay 8, 2009 |
Bates students help young Native Americans see themselves in collegeBates College students spent a week of April encouraging Native American schoolchildren in Maine to picture themselves attending college in the state. |
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WednesdayApril 29, 2009 |
In Praise of Melancholy author to speakEric G. Wilson, whose 2008 book Against Happiness offers a provocative antidote to America’s culture of “happiness at all costs,” visits Bates College to give a talk called “The Power of Melancholy” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, in Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. |
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WednesdayApril 29, 2009 |
Acclaimed young jazz pianist Jonathan Batiste to performLed by a jazz pianist whose acclaim belies his youth, the Jonathan Batiste Band performs at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 1, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. |
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FridayApril 17, 2009 |
Food in the Bates curriculum: A tasting menuYou eat where you are: In her course “Back East, Down South, Out West: Regions in American Culture,” history professor… |
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FridayApril 17, 2009 |
'Diversity and Technology' is theme for presidential symposiumPresident Elaine Tuttle Hansen has announced the program and speakers for the third annual presidential symposium at Bates College. Titled The Teaching and Learning Shift: Diversity and Technology in the Twenty-First Century, the event explores ways in which Bates faculty and staff must both expand their knowledge of how students learn and deepen their capacity to engage them. |
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WednesdayApril 15, 2009 |
Senior wins U.S. Critical Language Scholarship to study ChineseAnna Levy, a Bates College senior from Portland, has received a scholarship from the federal government to study Mandarin Chinese this summer in a program in Harbin, China. |
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WednesdayApril 15, 2009 |
French professor recognized for integrating service, teachingAlexandre Dauge-Roth, an assistant professor of French at Bates College, is one of three Maine college professors to receive a 2009 Maine Campus Compact award for infusing public service and civic engagement into their teaching. Dauge-Roth will receive a Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence in the Maine Campus Compact’s eighth annual faculty and student awards ceremony April 16 at the Maine State Museum. |
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FridayApril 3, 2009 |
UMass Amherst sociologist to discuss interracial Asian adoptionC.N. Le, director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Program at UMass Amherst, offers a lecture titled “Interracial Asian Adoption: Issues and Identity in 21st-Century American Society” at Bates on April 6. |
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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. |