Stories about "Lewiston-Auburn"
Proceedings of college's diversity and demographics symposium available online
Friday, June 15, 2007 11:25 am
About 150 Bates faculty, staff, students, college Trustees and members of the local community attended and engaged in the presidential symposium A College for 'Coming Time': Diversity and Changing Demographics in Higher Education, convened by President Elaine Tuttle Hansen.
Environment, local nonprofits to benefit from June 16 Clean Sweep sale
Friday, June 8, 2007 11:41 am
Clean Sweep, Bates College's seventh annual "garage sale" of electronics, furnishings, bikes, toys and other goods donated by departing students, takes place Saturday, June 16, at the college's Underhill Arena, 145 Russell St.
'Green Horizons,' Bates' summer exhibition, examines sustainability
Monday, May 21, 2007 4:32 pm
With its centerpiece a giant painting that depicts Brooklyn after millennia of global warming, an exhibition exploring the concept of environmental sustainability opens on June 9 at the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St.
'Green Horizons' participants and projects
Monday, May 21, 2007 12:25 pm
With its centerpiece a giant painting that depicts Brooklyn after millennia of global warming, an exhibition exploring the concept of environmental sustainability opens on June 9 at the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. "Green Horizons" will present prominent artists from Maine and the world in an adventurous attempt to provoke conversations around the questions: What is green? What is sustainable?
Bates celebrates Harward Center for Community Partnerships Awards
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 1:14 pm
Twelve individuals and organizations, recipients of the first Bates College Harward Center for Community Partnership Awards, were recently recognized in a celebration at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives.
Bates receives national grant for community-based research fellowships
Monday, April 2, 2007 1:07 pm
Bates College is one of 11 institutions of higher education named by the National Community-Based Research Networking Initiative to receive funding for innovative community-based research projects.
Bates, Maine Music Society gather 260 musicians for all-Brahms concert
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:07 am
In a landmark musical event, Bates College and the Maine Music Society will muster some 260 musicians for an evening of music by Johannes Brahms, including his exquisite "Requiem," at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 31, in the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, 27 Bartlett St.
Bates College Museum of Art shows Hewitt print retrospective
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:00 am
A retrospective of prints by Charlie Hewitt, a Maine artist of national stature, opens with a reception at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. "Scrape, Cut, Gouge, Bite, Print . . . The Graphic Work of Charlie Hewitt 1976-2006" offers a comprehensive look at Hewitt's printmaking, the field for which this dynamic artist is best-known.
From carrots to zukes on Wood Street
Thursday, October 5, 2006 12:00 am
"Sharing the misery of weeding with a bunch of other people can be fun," says Molly Ladd '09, an environmental studies major from Somerville, Maine. She's right. On a cool and brilliant day in early fall, fun is reigning among the half-dozen or so students working in the Wood Street Service Garden.
Local organizations share more than $9,500 from 'Clean Sweep' sale
Thursday, July 6, 2006 12:00 am
The sixth annual Clean Sweep, the Bates College "garage sale" of furnishings, books, electronics and other goods donated by departing students, generated some $9,579 in proceeds that were divided among nine local nonprofit organizations and a school athletics program.