Alumni make May 15 a “great day”
Bates reaches 599 new alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day.
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WednesdayApril 9, 1997 |
Bates student awarded Marshall ScholarshipBates College junior Joshua Baschnagel of Etna, N.H., is the first Bates student to be named a Regis Maine Scholar of the Marshall Undergraduate Scholars Program, announced Martha C. Crunkleton, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty. |
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MondaySeptember 23, 1996 |
Nobel Laureate in chemistry to speakHarvard University scientist Dudley R. Herschbach, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1986, will present two lectures at Bates College on Wednesday, Oct. 2, as this year’s visitor in the du Pont Eminent Scientists Seminar Series. |
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WednesdayJune 26, 1996 |
Students attend neuroscience conferenceTwo Bates College graduates recently presented their senior thesis research to an international neuroscience conference in Cancun, Mexico. |
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TuesdayApril 9, 1996 |
Rachel Henault awarded Watson FellowshipBates College senior Rachel Henault, of Naugatuck, Ct., is one of 60 students nationwide recently selected to receive a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. The $16,000 award will support a year of travel and research in Peru, Ecuador and Mexico during which Henault plans to study tropical forest plant products as a sustainable source of income. A devoted conservationist, Henault is interested in exploring how conservation strategies affect the individuals most dependent on the rain forest. |
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WednesdayMarch 27, 1996 |
Geology professor to present paper on arsenicLois K. Ongley, assistant professor of geology at Bates, will discuss the results of a study of the sorption of dissolved arsenic by sand at the 1996 Northeastern Section Meeting of the Geological Society of America on Friday at 8:40 a.m. in Regency A of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Buffalo, N.Y. |
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WednesdayMarch 27, 1996 |
Geology students present results of research in MexicoThe drinking water in Zimapán has an average arsenic concentration of 0.3 mg/L. The WHO drinking water standard is 0.05 mg/L. The residents of Zimapán are beginning to show ill health effects of chronic arsenic poisoning which include skin cancer and kidney and liver disease. Montgomery and Tichenor are trying to determine the source of the arsenic and the pathway by which it enters the groundwater supply. |
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ThursdayFebruary 1, 1996 |
Rhetoric professor receives argumentation theory awardRobert Branham, professor of rhetoric and director of debate at Bates College, has received the latest Research Award of the American Forensic Association (AFA) for his 1994 article, “Debate and Dissent in Late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan,” which appeared in the journal “Argumentation and Advocacy.” |
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