King would be ‘appalled’ at today’s rhetoric around poverty, Butler says in keynote

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 January 22, 2013 5:00 pm	King would be ‘appalled’ at today’s rhetoric around poverty, Butler says in keynote Getting 46 million Americans out of poverty will require wholesale changes in how we talk about, think about and take action around poverty, said keynote speaker Anthea Butler.
Monday October 29, 2012 4:00 pm	Slide show: Service for naming the Peter J. Gomes Chapel Photographs reflecting the poignancy and celebration, musical offerings and spoken word, of the service for naming Peter J. Gomes Chapel…
Friday October 26, 2012 9:30 am	Peter Gomes ‘cherished’ the Chapel that now carries his name The Chapel became the Peter J. Gomes Chapel on Oct. 25 as hundreds gathered to remember the late preacher and teacher in words and song.
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.
Friday January 13, 2012 4:04 pm	Arab News highlights new Short Term course heading to Saudi Arabia An op-ed in the newspaper Arab News praises Leena Nasser ’12, the Bates student who helped to craft the new anthropology course scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia in May.
Thursday November 17, 2011 10:05 pm	Theologian’s lecture to propose ‘collective conscience’ as response to climate change With climate change looming as a great challenge of this century, theologian Celia Deane-Drummond will call for the development of a collective conscience as a moral response to the phenomenon in a lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in Chase Hall Lounge.
Tuesday November 8, 2011 8:14 pm	Harvard Crimson reports on Chapel’s naming for Peter Gomes ’65 Harvard Crimson staff writer Justin Worland reports on the Bates Chapel’s naming in memory of Peter Gomes ’65, the late…
Thursday June 16, 2011 9:53 am	Video: photographs and words from the life of the late Peter Gomes '65 Featuring photographs and audio, this multimedia slide show was shown at the Reunion 2011 tribute to the late Peter Gomes…
Thursday June 16, 2011 9:46 am	Video: Gathering in tribute to Peter Gomes '65 at Reunion 2011 At Reunion 2011, friends and former colleagues of the late Rev. Professor Peter Gomes ’65 gather to say goodbye to…
Friday June 3, 2011 11:55 am	Reunion Weekend tribute to the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes '65 set for June 11 During this year’s alumni Reunion Weekend, Bates College will pay tribute to the late Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes ’65,…

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Getting 46 million Americans out of poverty will require wholesale changes in how we talk about, think about and take action around poverty, said keynote speaker Anthea Butler.

Slide show: Service for naming the Peter J. Gomes Chapel

Photographs reflecting the poignancy and celebration, musical offerings and spoken word, of the service for naming Peter J. Gomes Chapel…

Peter Gomes ‘cherished’ the Chapel that now carries his name

The Chapel became the Peter J. Gomes Chapel on Oct. 25 as hundreds gathered to remember the late preacher and teacher in words and song.

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.

Arab News highlights new Short Term course heading to Saudi Arabia

An op-ed in the newspaper Arab News praises Leena Nasser ’12, the Bates student who helped to craft the new anthropology course scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia in May.

Theologian’s lecture to propose ‘collective conscience’ as response to climate change

With climate change looming as a great challenge of this century, theologian Celia Deane-Drummond will call for the development of a collective conscience as a moral response to the phenomenon in a lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in Chase Hall Lounge.