Stories about "Current topics"
Bates MLK Day keynote: Food justice is ‘one of the most important movements of the 21st century’
Friday, January 19, 2024 8:37 am
MLK Day keynote Bryant Terry, an artist, author, chef, and activist, says Martin Luther King Jr's fight against food apartheid is still relevant today.
Those odd circles in space? They’re now explained thanks to scientists including Aleks Diamond-Stanic
Friday, January 12, 2024 2:00 am
A team of scientists, including Bates physics professor Aleksandar Diamond-Stanic, have explained a space phenomenon first discovered in 2019 but a mystery until this week.
A Bates professor and Lewiston educators team up to show the power of fun and games in math education
Thursday, January 11, 2024 10:42 am
It's all fun and games until someone learns something. That was the idea when Lewiston educators teamed up with Bates math professor Meredith Greer to introduce the fun of robots to her First-Year Seminar.
‘Food Justice’ is on the menu for 2024 MLK Day at Bates
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 4:43 pm
This year’s keynote promises stirring words — and more. Noted author, food justice activist, and James Beard Award-winning chef Bryant Terry plans to stir up a vegan dish featured in one of his acclaimed cookbooks.
Legendary Bates chemistry professor Tom Wenzel named one of the top science educators of the past 10 years
Friday, December 15, 2023 9:55 am
Legendary Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Tom Wenzel, who was recognized as a pioneer for teaching undergraduates through active learning, is named one of the nation’s top science educators.
By agreeing to abandon one word, Bates peer tutors gain insight into the power of language
Thursday, November 30, 2023 5:59 pm
Visiting Bates to deliver the Otis Lecture, poet Nancy Campbell invited the peer writing and language tutors to play her famed Polar Tombolo game to gain insight into language diversity and the power of words.
Bates faculty member Kati Vecsey helps give voice to a fellow Hungarian’s right-to-die case
Thursday, November 16, 2023 11:33 am
Dániel Karsai, a Hungarian human rights lawyer, has ALS and wants the right to die with dignity. Vecsey, a Bates faculty member and voice expert, is helping him voice his case before the European Court for Human Rights, Nov. 27–28.
Bates professor wins national mathematics teaching award
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 4:48 pm
Professor of Mathematics Adriana Salerno says it feels odd getting an individual award because teaching "is a community activity."
A Veterans Day moment at Bates, ‘all that has been sacrificed and shared’
Friday, November 10, 2023 2:50 pm
Sophia Cattallani ’25 of Skaneateles, N.Y., kept her trumpet zipped in her…
Hilarious and provocative, ‘The Thanksgiving Play’ is a Bates production that ‘has to be done’
Thursday, November 9, 2023 12:39 pm
To help Bates student actors navigate the fast-moving satire The Thanksgiving Play, director Tim Dugan reached out to Native American experts on campus and in Maine to join the creative team.