Stories about "Faculty and staff"
Audio slideshow: Bates production sharpened the edge on Elton play
Wednesday, September 6, 2006 12:00 am
Ben Elton's 1996 play Popcorn is a bleak comedy about the symbiotic relationship between violence and the mass media. It's the story of an American film director, known for the sensationalistic violence in his work, who is taken hostage by two serial killers on the very evening he wins an Oscar. The so-called Mall Murderers, Wayne and Scout, claim that director Bruce Delamitri inspired their brutal acts and should therefore be held responsible for them.
Robert Farnsworth's reading of a Tagliabue poem
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 9:41 am
At the September 2006 faculty meeting, English faculty member Rob Farnsworth, who spent the summer as the poet-in-residence at The Frost Place, a museum and arts center housed in poet Robert Frost's former homestead in Franconia, N.H., read a poem of his own in memory of John Tagliabue as well as this poem of Tagliabue's, "Sliding into the Future."
Robert Farnsworth's poem for John A. Tagliabue
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 9:30 am
At the Sept. 11, 2006, faculty meeting, English faculty member Rob Farnsworth, who spent the summer as the poet-in-residence at The Frost Place, a museum and arts center housed in poet Robert Frost's former homestead in Franconia, N.H., offered this poem as part of the faculty's Memorial Minute for the late John Tagliabue. Farnsworth also read a poem of Tagliabue's, called "Sliding into the Future."
The John Tagliabue Poetry Fund
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 9:21 am
John Tagliabue taught literature at Bates from 1953 until his retirement in 1989, and was a prolific and imaginative poet. During his decades on the Bates faculty, he gave readings himself, brought to campus many of the leading poetic voices of the 20th century, and was a friend to poets and creative artists around the world.
Poet Robert Farnsworth to address Bates College convocation
Monday, August 28, 2006 11:27 am
Bates College begins its 152nd academic year with a convocation address by Robert Farnsworth, a member of the English faculty and a nationally known poet, at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, on the college's Historic Quadrangle.
Willett '73 named chair of the Bates board
Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:00 am
Joseph T. Willett '73 of Ridgewood, N.J., has been elected the new chair of the Bates board of trustees, President Elaine Tuttle Hansen and trustees have announced. Willett succeeds Burton M. Harris '59, who retired from the board following 23 years of service, including five as chair.
Bates contingent attends international sleep research conference
Monday, July 24, 2006 12:00 am
In June, four Bates students and assistant professor of psychology Roxanne Prichard traveled to Salt Lake City for the 20th anniversary SLEEP meeting, sponsored by the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
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.
Bates library schedules mock disaster and recovery for June 23
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:00 am
The Bates College library staff will hold a mock disaster and recovery of library materials at 10:30 a.m. on June 23 in the outdoor lower arcade of the George and Helen Ladd Library. The event, led by Melissa Straw, a graduate intern studying book and paper conservation at the University of Texas-Austin, will give the staff of Ladd library and the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library real-world experience in quickly and efficiently recovering from a water-based disaster with guidance from a trained book conservator.
Harward Center awards faculty and staff grants for partnership projects
Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:00 am
Seven Bates College faculty and staff have been awarded Harward Center grants in the inaugural round of a new, annual funding program by the Harward Center For Community Partnerships. The grants, awarded competitively by a selection committee, are designed to offer faculty and staff significant support for publicly engaged teaching, research, cultural and other community projects. Seven projects — five led by faculty and two by Bates staff members — received grants totaling $33,500.