Stories about "Science and technology"
‘A Generous Thing for Friends’
Friday, February 11, 2011 8:29 am
Rachel Segall ’91 carries a baby for Erik Mercer ’91 and Sandro…
Race in a Post-Human World talks resume with look at pop music, mobile technologies
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 1:40 pm
Continuing a Bates series exploring the impacts of technology on concepts of race, Alexander Weheliye, an authority on African American culture at Northwestern University, offers the lecture "Ring Ring Ring: Popular Music and Mobile Technologies" at 7:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 14, in Pettengill Hall's Keck Classroom (G52), 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).
CANCELED: Race in a Post-Human World lecture
Thursday, December 2, 2010 8:59 am
A talk scheduled for 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, by author Lisa Nakamura has been canceled due to illness.
'Antisocial Media' opens 'Race in a Post-Human World' series
Monday, November 22, 2010 1:53 pm
As part of a Bates College series exploring the impacts of social and technological progress on concepts of race, author Lisa Nakamura offers a lecture at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, in Pettengill Hall's Keck Classroom (G52), 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk). Nakamura's lecture, titled Antisocial Media: Understanding Racism and Homophobia in a Digitally Connected World, will address social media's influence on concepts of race and homosexuality, and will touch on the recent suicide of Rutgers first-year Tyler Clementi.
Video: NASA profile of Petro '01 reveals influence of Bates mentor
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 3:23 pm
"Also at Bates Petro met Professor Gene Clough, Lecturer in Geology and Physics, who became his dear friend, advisor, role model and tour guide as he delved into planetary geology."
R&D chief at pharmaceuticals firm to discuss drug development
Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:04 pm
A talk at Bates by Steven Kates '83, vice president of research and development for the Massachusetts pharmaceuticals company Ischemix, visits Bates College to offer the presentation Ischemix: Discovery and Development has been rescheduled from Tuesday, Nov. 2, to Monday, Nov. 8. The time and location for the event will be announced.
The Boston Globe praises Bates' social-network Web page
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 11:42 am
The Boston Globe‘s Christopher Shea, who writes the Brainiac blog for Boston.com,…
About the Cover: Summer 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010 2:00 pm
View the story by Bill Walsh ’86 on alumni involved in drug…
The Drug Makers
Friday, August 27, 2010 2:00 pm
The pharmaceutical industry stirs skepticism even as it saves lives. Alums in…
'Quantum entanglement' research published
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 8:38 am
Lilian Childress, assistant professor of physics at Bates, is one of a team of physicists whose research into the intriguing phenomenon called quantum entanglement was published Aug. 5 on the Science Daily and Nature websites.