Stories about "Health and medicine"
To heal the wounded
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 12:45 pm
A book review in The New York Times praised the team of U.S. Army medical professionals, including Dr. Dave Lounsbury '72, a retired colonel, that pushed for publication of War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003–2007.
Biology professor wins NIH grant for respiratory research
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:00 pm
Bates biologist Ryan Bavis will use a grant from a division of the National Institutes of Health to advance understanding of why exposing animals to oxygen-rich environments early in their development adversely affects their respiratory functioning later in life.
CSI Bates
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 4:14 pm
In the woods near Merrill Gym, Short Term students in "Forensic Science," taught by Stephanie Richards ’84, a visiting biology professor, search for a mock gravesite. From left are Jennifer Diefendorf ’11, Christopher Ray ’10, teaching assistant Marshall Karpell ’08, Leigh Krueger ’10 (behind tree), and Kelsey Omstead ’08.
Lecture by Adler '00 explores psychotherapy, personal stories
Monday, March 17, 2008 10:26 am
Jonathan Adler '00, who researches intersections between psychotherapy, personal identity and the stories we tell about ourselves, offers a lecture on his work at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, in Bates College's Pettengill Hall, Keck Classroom (G52), 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).
Dinner Time
Saturday, March 1, 2008 2:53 pm
About 1,000 diners gave the College’s new Commons its first major test on the evening of Feb. 25 during the first dinner served to the entire campus community in the new space.
Historically Black
Saturday, March 1, 2008 2:13 pm
Spelman and Morehouse colleges offer something that Bates can't — and that's just the point
Bates tennis player a semifinalist for national citizenship award
Monday, December 17, 2007 11:10 am
Mallika Raghavan (Chappaqua, N.Y.) is one of 14 semifinalists for the Wooden Cup, and the only tennis player or Division III athlete on that list. There are five others who have earned finalist honors, one of whom will be announced on Jan. 24 as the Wooden Cup's college recipient.
Chechen surgeon and human rights activist to speak
Saturday, December 8, 2007 11:25 am
Dr. Khassan Baiev, a Chechen physician, author and human rights activist, will speak at Bates College on International Human Rights Day, Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 7 p.m. in Room 204 of Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave.
Graduate programs in health care accept 89 percent of Bates applicants
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 10:04 am
Eighty-nine percent of Bates College students who worked with the college's Medical Studies Committee in applying to health care-related graduate programs for fall 2007 matriculation were accepted.
Noted Harvard sociologist to discuss her mother's extraordinary life
Thursday, November 1, 2007 10:59 am
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist and professor of education at Harvard University, will give a presentation titled "Balm in Gilead: On Love, Justice and the Word, " at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives.