Stories about "Civic engagement"
Video: With a click, Zsofia Duarte ’18 nears the end of the honors thesis triathlon

Friday, March 30, 2018 11:01 am

Let's join Duarte in Ladd library as she clears the biggest honors-thesis hurdle: the online submission of her 115-page document.

Climate change is ‘not something you believe. It just is,’ says Trump whistleblower Joel Clement

Friday, March 16, 2018 12:40 pm

Clement is the former climate policy chief who says the Trump administration retaliated against him and fellow scientists for climate-change advocacy.

"I think the biggest thing I'll take away from this experience is the intersection of community building and scientific innovation. Whiting Farm is building the agricultural community in both Auburn and Maine. It's a really beautiful thing to see and be a part of."--Environmental Studies major Isobel Curtis '17, a student in ENVR 417, working collaboratively on a community engaged research project with Whiting Farm (876 Summer Street, Auburn) on Summer Street in Auburn. Her focus is sustainable greenhouse design. Kim Finnerty, shown with Isobel, is the farm's director. Melissa Collins was at the cash register.She is photographed with Tony Kieffer, Managing Director of Arch Solar in Portland. They work in sustainable greenhouse design, building new and retrofitting existing greenhouses, making them airtight, using LEDs and heat capturing, geothermal technology. Poinsettias and cyclamen, 15 varieties available.
Bates’ environmental studies program cited as national model for community engagement

Friday, March 9, 2018 11:30 am

“The way the Bates environmental studies program weaves public engagement into the fabric of the major produces fabulous outcomes."

Ian Erickson ’18 takes the first critical look at HIV/AIDs activism in 1980s rural Maine

Friday, March 9, 2018 11:22 am

In the beginning, “people in Maine, whether they were queer or not, viewed themselves as immune and separate from HIV/AIDS."

Matt Dunlap: ‘Don’t call it fraud because you disagree with it’

Friday, March 2, 2018 12:47 pm

Maine's secretary of state talks to Bates politics professor John Baughman about why he joined the president's commission on voter fraud — and why he sued it.

Look What We Found: Leslie Hill’s prized document of protest by African American women

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 4:12 pm

Hill, a Bates politics professor, explains a historic act of protest during the infamous 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings — and what it means for her students today.

Picture Story: MLK Day 2018

Friday, January 19, 2018 12:16 pm

Photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen and Theophil Syslo of the Bates Communications Office portray moments from the college’s 2018 MLK Day observance.

Theophil Syslo/Bates College
Students partner with community organizations for capstone course

Thursday, December 14, 2017 2:51 pm

On a chilly November day, three Bates seniors drove to Lewiston’s Kennedy Park with clipboards and GPS trackers. Their task: to evaluate and log the coordinates of all “natural amenities."

Muskie’s threatened Clean Water Act delivers ‘billions of dollars in economic benefits’ annually

Wednesday, November 15, 2017 5:24 pm

Ensuring clean water, says economics professor Lynne Lewis, boosts jobs, tourism, recreation, and property values — benefits that far outweigh the costs.

Q&A: Psychologist Amy Bradfield Douglass on eyewitness identifications

Thursday, November 2, 2017 10:20 am

Audience questions added some new angles to a talk by Bates College psychologist Amy Bradfield Douglass about eyewitness identifications.

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