Stories about "Faculty and staff"
Fabled AESOP trips build first-year solidarity
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:20 am
Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program (AESOP) sends small groups of students hiking, camping, climbing, kayaking and canoeing across northern New England with the aim of helping the newbies make personal connections before classes start. This year's 80 leaders, working in pairs, will bring more than 250 first-years to destinations from Isle au Haut to Baxter State Park to Vermont's Long Trail.
College hosts international conference on memory and knowledge
Monday, July 23, 2007 11:53 am
Bates College hosts the seventh biennial meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, an international conference on memory and cognition, Wednesday, July 25, through Saturday, July 28.
Maine foundation awards college $255,000 grant for writing program
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 9:58 am
As Bates College prepares to begin its first academic year with a new set of core educational requirements, a foundation in Falmouth has awarded the college more than $250,000 to support the requirements' focus on writing skills.
Dick Williamson, Dana Professor Emeritus of French, dies at 62
Thursday, June 21, 2007 11:09 am
Richard C. Williamson, Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of French and a charismatic catalyst of Bates community, died while en route to Louisville, Ky., with his wife, Deborah, to compete in bicycling events at the National Senior Games.
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.
2007 Summer Reading List
Monday, June 4, 2007 4:27 pm
Each spring, the College Store publishes a list of good summer reads suggested by members of the Bates community. In a new twist this year, submitters were also asked to suggest that one book they'd like to have with them if they were shipwrecked on a deserted, tropical island for several months. So, look for a few titles for desert-island reading in this, the 11th annual "Non-required Reading List, or Good Reads for Leisure Moments."
Bates College Etude #1
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:00 pm
Dance performance by Fisher Qua and Carol Dilley, with choreography by Carol…
Bates College Etude #2
Monday, May 28, 2007 12:00 pm
Dance performance by Meredith Sallee and Fisher Qua, with choreography by Sarah McCormick, camera by Craig Saddlemire and Kristen Carey, and video production by Bill Matthew.
Commencement 2007 stories, photographs and videos
Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:08 pm
"If you want to solve all the problems that we're facing in this world, it's unlikely that the people and ideas that got us to where we are will be the ones that are going to get us to a different place," Segway inventor Dean Kamen told 464 graduates at Bates College' 141st Commencement.
'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.