Stories about "Science and technology"
Bates faculty, staff test drive electric cars

Friday, August 8, 2008 12:00 pm

Despite wet weather, a steady trickle of Bates faculty and staff arrived between Pettengill Hall and the new dining Commons Aug. 7 to test drive two low-speed electric vehicles: a four-seater car and a small truck.

Summer program for math, science students going strong in second year

Friday, August 1, 2008 12:00 pm

Squeezing the equivalent of two semester-long courses into just six weeks, the second annual Hughes Summer Scholars Program at Bates has been a real academic workout for the students involved.

Biology professor wins NIH grant for respiratory research

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:00 pm

Bates biologist Ryan Bavis will use a grant from a division of the National Institutes of Health to advance understanding of why exposing animals to oxygen-rich environments early in their development adversely affects their respiratory functioning later in life.

Summer program for math, science students going strong in second year

Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:43 pm

Squeezing the equivalent of two semester-long courses into just six weeks, the…

CSI Bates

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 4:14 pm

In the woods near Merrill Gym, Short Term students in "Forensic Science," taught by Stephanie Richards ’84, a visiting biology professor, search for a mock gravesite. From left are Jennifer Diefendorf ’11, Christopher Ray ’10, teaching assistant Marshall Karpell ’08, Leigh Krueger ’10 (behind tree), and Kelsey Omstead ’08.

Herzig wins NSF grant to study cosmetic uses of genomics

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:57 pm

Rebecca Herzig, associate professor in the women and gender studies program at Bates College, received a $57,344 National Science Foundation grant in April for work to be completed in the coming year.

Ask Me Another

Sunday, May 11, 2008 11:40 am

There's nothing alien about ET abduction, says Stephanie Kelley-Romano.

CSI Bates

Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:00 pm

In the woods near Merrill Gym, Short Term students in "Forensic Science," taught by Stephanie Richards ’84, a visiting biology professor, search for a mock gravesite.

Of Climate, Clams, and Colleagues

Saturday, March 1, 2008 4:39 pm

Arctic clams are sentinels of climate change, says biology professor Will Ambrose. But he didn’t find that out by himself

Nobel winner for ozone research to give annual environmental lecture

Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:46 pm

F. Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland, who shared a 1995 Nobel Prize for his ozone-layer research, discusses his work in atmospheric chemistry and environmental advocacy in a Bates College event at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.

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