Past is prologue, says new Muskie Archives director Pat Webber

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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Wednesday August 8, 2012 10:00 am	Past is prologue, says new Muskie Archives director Pat Webber The archives supports the academic community by keeping one foot in the past and one in the present.
Tuesday July 24, 2012 4:32 pm	With ‘Man of War,’ Schroeder ’95 gets into character Charlie Schroeder ’95 offers entertaining insights into the lives of war reenactors.
Tuesday March 13, 2012 5:13 pm	Gomes collection, reflecting intimacy with the past, offered March 24 A conception of God’s beauty as expressed in the physical world is a theme of items to be offered at auction from the collection of the Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes ’65.
Monday October 31, 2011 4:42 pm	Defending their honors theses, young scholars undergo a final metamorphosis Behind the closed doors of an honors defense, young scholars undergo a final metamorphosis.
Wednesday October 5, 2011 10:04 am	Civic Forums examine Androscoggin River, social entrepreneurship The Civic Forum Series at Bates offers presentations about the Androscoggin River and about social entrepreneurship during October. Bowdoin College faculty members Michael Kolster and Matthew Klingle explore the Androscoggin River. The following week, a co-founder of the fair-trade coffee importer Equal Exchange is among four of the nation’s leading social entrepreneurs who discuss their work.
Monday October 3, 2011 9:31 am	Material Culture group presents talks by Mandela archivist, food scholar An October lecture series exploring the role of material culture in the humanities and social sciences present speakers Verne Harris, Nelson Mandela archivist and Darra Goldstein, food scholar.
Friday November 12, 2010 4:12 pm	Bates professor reveals real story of Charles Dickens' wife in new book Lillian Nayder is a Bates professor whose new biography “The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth” is the first comprehensive portrait of the woman that Charles Dickens married and then repudiated.
Thursday June 3, 2010 4:50 pm	Lakes Region Weekly chats with MacMillan author Cowan '61 Lakes Region Weekly writer John Balentine talks with Mary Morton Cowan ’61 of Standish, author of the nonfiction children’s book,…
Wednesday May 26, 2010 3:57 pm	Two Bates seniors, an alumnus receive Fulbright awards Thanks to English Teaching Assistantships from the federal Fulbright Program, two Bates College seniors and a Bates alumnus will teach English overseas starting next fall. The Fulbright recipients are Avery Masters, a senior from Mill Valley, Calif., who will teach in Spain; Maura McGee, a senior from Manchester, N.H., who will teach in France; and Corey Pattison, a 2009 graduate now living in Gaza who will head for Indonesia.
Friday March 5, 2010 4:10 pm	In Bates College lecture, Harvard professor of religion to discuss significance of tears Kimberley Patton, professor of the comparative and historical study of religion at the Harvard Divinity School, offers a lecture titled “The Gates of Weeping Are Not Closed: The Powerful Work of Tears in Human Experience” Monday, March 22, in Bates College’s Chase Hall Lounge.

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The archives supports the academic community by keeping one foot in the past and one in the present.

With ‘Man of War,’ Schroeder ’95 gets into character

Charlie Schroeder ’95 offers entertaining insights into the lives of war reenactors.

Gomes collection, reflecting intimacy with the past, offered March 24

A conception of God’s beauty as expressed in the physical world is a theme of items to be offered at auction from the collection of the Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes ’65.

Defending their honors theses, young scholars undergo a final metamorphosis

Behind the closed doors of an honors defense, young scholars undergo a final metamorphosis.

Civic Forums examine Androscoggin River, social entrepreneurship

The Civic Forum Series at Bates offers presentations about the Androscoggin River and about social entrepreneurship during October. Bowdoin College faculty members Michael Kolster and Matthew Klingle explore the Androscoggin River. The following week, a co-founder of the fair-trade coffee importer Equal Exchange is among four of the nation’s leading social entrepreneurs who discuss their work.

Monday

October 3, 2011
9:31 am

Material Culture group presents talks by Mandela archivist, food scholar

An October lecture series exploring the role of material culture in the humanities and social sciences present speakers Verne Harris, Nelson Mandela archivist and Darra Goldstein, food scholar.

Friday

November 12, 2010
4:12 pm

Bates professor reveals real story of Charles Dickens' wife in new book

Lillian Nayder is a Bates professor whose new biography “The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth” is the first comprehensive portrait of the woman that Charles Dickens married and then repudiated.

Thursday

June 3, 2010
4:50 pm

Lakes Region Weekly chats with MacMillan author Cowan '61

Lakes Region Weekly writer John Balentine talks with Mary Morton Cowan ’61 of Standish, author of the nonfiction children’s book,…

Wednesday

May 26, 2010
3:57 pm

Two Bates seniors, an alumnus receive Fulbright awards

Thanks to English Teaching Assistantships from the federal Fulbright Program, two Bates College seniors and a Bates alumnus will teach English overseas starting next fall. The Fulbright recipients are Avery Masters, a senior from Mill Valley, Calif., who will teach in Spain; Maura McGee, a senior from Manchester, N.H., who will teach in France; and Corey Pattison, a 2009 graduate now living in Gaza who will head for Indonesia.

Friday

March 5, 2010
4:10 pm

In Bates College lecture, Harvard professor of religion to discuss significance of tears

Kimberley Patton, professor of the comparative and historical study of religion at the Harvard Divinity School, offers a lecture titled “The Gates of Weeping Are Not Closed: The Powerful Work of Tears in Human Experience” Monday, March 22, in Bates College’s Chase Hall Lounge.