Museum of Art to connect L-A seventh-graders with space station

The Bobcat looks forward to May 15, when Bates seeks 555 additional alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day. Photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College

Alumni make May 15 a “great day”

Post by: Victoria Stanton on Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Bates reaches 599 new alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day.

Matthew Auer, Indiana University honors dean, named Bates College vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty

Post by: Bates News on Monday, May 13, 2013

A leading scholar and globally engaged expert, Auer is also a dynamic and effective academic leader, said Bates President Clayton Spencer.

Bates expects to award bachelor's degree to approximately 450 students, representing 35 U.S. states and 28 countries, on May 26. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

2013 Commencement honorary degrees announced; address by Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg

Post by: Bates News on Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The honorary degree candidates “show us how the values that define the Bates experience can shape, and take shape in, the world,” said President Spencer.

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Thursday October 4, 2012 12:49 pm	Museum of Art to connect L-A seventh-graders with space station The Museum of Art will give L/A seventh-graders the opportunity to talk with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Wednesday October 3, 2012 4:28 pm	Science journalist offers astrophotography lecture, wilderness workshop Science journalist Babak Tafreshi leads a wilderness photography workshop and offers a lecture related to the Museum of Art exhibition “Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography”.
Monday October 1, 2012 1:47 pm	Astronomer, artist to give presentations related to ‘Starstruck’ Up next in a series of talks connected with the Bates College Museum of Art exhibition “Starstruck” are presentations by an astronomer from Yale and by an artist showing work in the show.
Wednesday August 29, 2012 8:58 am	Museum of Art offers lectures, star parties and more as ‘Starstruck’ shines on The Bates College Museum of Art presents lectures, star-viewing parties and other public programs throughout the autumn in conjunction with the remarkable exhibition “Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography.”
Wednesday June 6, 2012 3:49 pm	Good heavens! Museum of Art offers one of the first major exhibitions of astrophotography The headlining exhibition at the Museum of Art this summer, “Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography” is among the first major exhibitions examining astrophotography as an art genre.
Friday June 1, 2012 3:13 pm	Bates invites public to safe viewing of transit of Venus Bates invites Lewiston-Auburn residents to a campus viewing of Tuesday’s highly anticipated transit of Venus.
Monday November 7, 2011 1:57 pm	Astronomer to bring complexities of galactic interaction down to earth in talk Jeffrey Kenney ’80, an astronomy professor at Yale University, discusses interactions within galactic clusters Nov. 10 in a talk intended for a mainstream audience.
Friday September 17, 2010 8:22 am	University of Michigan astrophysicist to describe 'dark energy' research It sounds like something that animates an evil empire — and in fact, so-called dark energy does permeate the entire universe, scientists believe. But this phenomenon is beyond considerations of right and wrong. Instead, it’s a force whose mysteries embody fundamental questions about the workings of the universe. Scientists are closer than ever to answering those questions — and University of Michigan astrophysicist Gregory Tarlé visits Bates College to summarize progress in this effort at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17, in Room 204 of Carnegie Science Building, 44 Campus Ave.
Wednesday April 15, 2009 8:34 am	Hughes Travel Grants send academic stars into the public sphere Like a sports team taking its game on the road, Bates’ best and brightest academic stars take their research into…
Monday September 22, 2008 12:00 pm	Maddie White '09 contemplates the 'final frontier' It has always fascinated me that we are able to study and understand what is way beyond our physical reach.

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The Museum of Art will give L/A seventh-graders the opportunity to talk with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Science journalist offers astrophotography lecture, wilderness workshop

Science journalist Babak Tafreshi leads a wilderness photography workshop and offers a lecture related to the Museum of Art exhibition “Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography”.

Astronomer, artist to give presentations related to ‘Starstruck’

Up next in a series of talks connected with the Bates College Museum of Art exhibition “Starstruck” are presentations by an astronomer from Yale and by an artist showing work in the show.

Museum of Art offers lectures, star parties and more as ‘Starstruck’ shines on

The Bates College Museum of Art presents lectures, star-viewing parties and other public programs throughout the autumn in conjunction with the remarkable exhibition “Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography.”

Wednesday

June 6, 2012
3:49 pm

Good heavens! Museum of Art offers one of the first major exhibitions of astrophotography

The headlining exhibition at the Museum of Art this summer, “Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography” is among the first major exhibitions examining astrophotography as an art genre.

Friday

June 1, 2012
3:13 pm

Bates invites public to safe viewing of transit of Venus

Bates invites Lewiston-Auburn residents to a campus viewing of Tuesday’s highly anticipated transit of Venus.

Monday

November 7, 2011
1:57 pm

Astronomer to bring complexities of galactic interaction down to earth in talk

Jeffrey Kenney ’80, an astronomy professor at Yale University, discusses interactions within galactic clusters Nov. 10 in a talk intended for a mainstream audience.

Friday

September 17, 2010
8:22 am

University of Michigan astrophysicist to describe 'dark energy' research

It sounds like something that animates an evil empire — and in fact, so-called dark energy does permeate the entire universe, scientists believe. But this phenomenon is beyond considerations of right and wrong. Instead, it’s a force whose mysteries embody fundamental questions about the workings of the universe. Scientists are closer than ever to answering those questions — and University of Michigan astrophysicist Gregory Tarlé visits Bates College to summarize progress in this effort at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17, in Room 204 of Carnegie Science Building, 44 Campus Ave.