Stories about "Collaboration"
Roman Influence
Friday, December 18, 2009 10:47 am
The book An Artist in Rome marries poems by the late John Tagliabue with paintings by Adam Van Doren.
Genocide’s Heirs
Friday, December 18, 2009 9:27 am
Alexis Mutimukunda and Sara Bravmann ’12 talk about their experiences learning from one another.
'Valence, for Whom I Testify'
Friday, December 18, 2009 8:56 am
While visiting his former school, Ecole secondaire de Nyange, Ildephonse Majyambere, an orphan survivor of the genocide in Rwanda, tells what happened on March 18, 1997.
Bates researcher’s lake study wins federal support
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 3:59 pm
Thanks to National Science Foundation funding awarded this fall, environmental studies professor Holly Ewing and collaborators from Dartmouth and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies are investigating lake eutrophication and especially the role of a particular cyanobacterium.
Students explore local need for Islamic banking practices
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 12:37 pm
For some members of our community,the simple freedom of economic choice does not exist. Religious considerations prohibit Muslims in our community from using the American system of banking. Specifically, they are forbidden to use banking products that involve interest or money begetting money.That's why, at the bank's request, my Bates anthropology class "Production and Reproduction" took on a community-based research project involving the local Somali population this semester. We explored ways in which Islamic and American banking differ. Our research gave the bank ideas for Islamic banking services.
Gamelan Orchestra performance includes student composition
Monday, December 7, 2009 4:36 pm
The Bates College Gamelan Orchestra will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave. "Gamelan" refers to a broad genre of traditional Indonesian music played primarily on percussion instruments. Senior Barbara Byers, an interdisciplinary major in music and dance, composed a piece titled "Monkey" that's included on the program.
Miller-McCune.com highlights immigrant research by politics professor Clarisa Perez-Armendariz
Thursday, December 3, 2009 9:01 am
The online magazine Miller-McCune.com highlights new research by Assistant Professor of Politics…
Slide show features Trashion Show 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009 6:04 pm
* View the slide show by clicking the thumbnails. The fourth annual…
Video: Lee Abrahamsen is at the heart of Bates’ medical studies program
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:49 am
Each year, close to 90 percent of Bates students applying to medical…
2009 Otis Fellows expand knowledge of history, culture, environment
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:36 pm
More than 100 years later, the Yukon River still bears the evidence of the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush: abandoned cabins, mining equipment, even shoes still scattered along the way. Last summer, two Bates seniors set out to experience this historic episode first-hand. They retraced the fortune hunters' trail along the Yukon, from Lake Bennett in Canada across Alaska to the Bering Sea — a distance of nearly 2,000 miles, covered by foot and canoe.