Bangor Daily News profiles Whitten ’94, romance writers’ Librarian of the Year

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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Tuesday April 9, 2013 3:06 pm	Bangor Daily News profiles Whitten ’94, romance writers’ Librarian of the Year Whitten is a circulation assistant at Bangor Public Library who several years ago co-founded the library’s Not Your Ordinary Book Club.
Wednesday August 31, 2011 10:09 am	Therí Pickens, assistant professor of English Pickens investigates African American and Arab American literature, literary theory and disability issues. She bases her research on the exploration of the nature of awareness itself — a branch of philosophy called phenomenology.
Thursday January 27, 2011 10:09 am	Saturday series relates poetry, visual arts for young people Paul Janeczko, a prolific Maine author who specializes in teaching poetry to young people, will lead a workshop in the Museum of Art children’s program that explores writing in relation to the visual arts.
Thursday January 27, 2011 9:48 am	'Brookland' author Emily Barton to read Emily Barton, author of two novels that The New York Times designated “Notable Books of the Year,” reads from her work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, in Chase Hall’s Skelton Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.
Thursday January 27, 2011 9:02 am	Museum's language-arts initiative launches educational website, video For more than a decade, the Thousand Words Project has been the flagship educational outreach program of the Bates College Museum of Art. Now the museum has launched an educational website for the program, complete with instructional video.
Thursday December 9, 2010 5:24 pm	Oprah selection sparks Dickens discussion with Nayder in Wall Street Journal Does Charles Dickens matter? Professor of English Lillian Nayler helps answer the question in the Dec. 12 Wall Street Journal. The question was prompted by two of Charles Dickens’ novels — “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Great Expectations” — being named last week to Oprah Winfrey’s book club.
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.
Tuesday October 26, 2010 12:20 pm	Poets from around the globe to read at 'Translations 2010' festival Presenting five nights of readings by poets from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the festival “Translations 2010: Cross-Cultural Awareness Through Poetry” takes place at Bates College Nov. 7-11.
Wednesday September 29, 2010 11:30 am	Reading series presents esteemed poet McNair The Language Arts Live series of literary readings at Bates presents Debra Spark, author of the novels The Ghost of Bridgetown and Good for the Jews, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 11; and one of Maine’s most respected poets, Wesley McNair, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28.
Tuesday February 23, 2010 12:00 am	Noted Franco-American writer to read from works at Bates College Normand Beaupré, a Maine author who writes in French and English, visits Bates College to read from his work at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave.

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Whitten is a circulation assistant at Bangor Public Library who several years ago co-founded the library’s Not Your Ordinary Book Club.

Therí Pickens, assistant professor of English

Pickens investigates African American and Arab American literature, literary theory and disability issues. She bases her research on the exploration of the nature of awareness itself — a branch of philosophy called phenomenology.

Thursday

January 27, 2011
10:09 am

Saturday series relates poetry, visual arts for young people

Paul Janeczko, a prolific Maine author who specializes in teaching poetry to young people, will lead a workshop in the Museum of Art children’s program that explores writing in relation to the visual arts.

Thursday

January 27, 2011
9:48 am

'Brookland' author Emily Barton to read

Emily Barton, author of two novels that The New York Times designated “Notable Books of the Year,” reads from her work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, in Chase Hall’s Skelton Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

Thursday

January 27, 2011
9:02 am

Museum's language-arts initiative launches educational website, video

For more than a decade, the Thousand Words Project has been the flagship educational outreach program of the Bates College Museum of Art. Now the museum has launched an educational website for the program, complete with instructional video.

Thursday

December 9, 2010
5:24 pm

Oprah selection sparks Dickens discussion with Nayder in Wall Street Journal

Does Charles Dickens matter?

Professor of English Lillian Nayler helps answer the question in the Dec. 12 Wall Street Journal.

The question was prompted by two of Charles Dickens’ novels — “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Great Expectations” — being named last week to Oprah Winfrey’s book club.

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.

Tuesday

October 26, 2010
12:20 pm

Poets from around the globe to read at 'Translations 2010' festival

Presenting five nights of readings by poets from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the festival “Translations 2010: Cross-Cultural Awareness Through Poetry” takes place at Bates College Nov. 7-11.

Wednesday

September 29, 2010
11:30 am

Reading series presents esteemed poet McNair

The Language Arts Live series of literary readings at Bates presents Debra Spark, author of the novels The Ghost of Bridgetown and Good for the Jews, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 11; and one of Maine’s most respected poets, Wesley McNair, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28.

Tuesday

February 23, 2010
12:00 am

Noted Franco-American writer to read from works at Bates College

Normand Beaupré, a Maine author who writes in French and English, visits Bates College to read from his work at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave.