Stories about "Faculty and staff"
Harward Center presents extensive program for grand opening
Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:50 pm
Marking a new chapter in Bates College's commitment to the Lewiston-Auburn community and to community-based education, the Donald W. and Ann. M. Harward Center for Community Partnerships presents a grand opening and welcome for its first director, David M. Scobey. The Jan. 25-27 celebration features three days of academic and cultural events, all of which are open free of charge to the Bates and Lewiston-Auburn communities. For more information call 207-786-6202.
Volunteer cast, crew sought for Bates film project
Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:02 pm
Paul Kuritz, a professor of theater at Bates College, seeks volunteer actors and film crewmembers to join him and members of the Bates community in creating a screen adaptation of "A New Life," a short story by Mary Ward Brown.
2006 Bates King Day theme highlights the road to peace
Friday, December 23, 2005 3:02 pm
A pioneer in the field of African American women's history and chair of the Department of African American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Professor Sharon Harley is the keynote speaker for the 2006 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College.
Bates community donates more than $16 K for hurricane relief
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:46 pm
Members of the Bates College community have donated more than $16,000 in response to the Katrina Relief Initiative (KRI), a fund-raiser spearheaded by Bates students, faculty and staff, and supported by the Office of the Chaplain and the Harward Center for Community Partnerships.
Bates College Choir offers two December programs
Friday, December 2, 2005 2:51 pm
John Corrie, lecturer in music at Bates College, directs the college choir in two December programs open to the public at no cost. The choir sings Johann Sebastian Bach's "Magnificat" and Morten Lauridsen's "Lux Aeterna" at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, and Saturday, Dec. 3, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.
Bates greets 'Ellis Island Snow Globe'
Friday, November 18, 2005 3:19 pm
With a reception on Nov. 16, the Bates community extended a warm "well done" to Erica Rand for the publication of her second book, The Ellis Island Snow Globe (Duke University Press).
Scholarship showcase
Friday, November 18, 2005 10:36 am
The Dean of the Faculty's Office maintains vitrines in the main entrance to Lane Hall in which recent works of scholarship by Bates faculty and students are displayed.
Bates hosts discussion of harassment prevention program
Monday, November 14, 2005 3:21 pm
Local high school students and staff will join Steve Wessler, director of the Maine Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, for a discussion of the "Unity Project," a multiyear harassment prevention program built around the use of peer influence, at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 14, in Chase Hall Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave., Bates College. The public is invited to attend the event, co-sponsored by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships and the education department at Bates, free of charge. For more information, please call 207-786-8235.
One Saturday at Bates — and three really big shows
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 3:23 pm
Saturday brings something of a cultural feast on the Bates campus, with performances by the Bates College Orchestra, former Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio and the Modern Dance Company — which also performs Sunday and Monday.
Bates names new Dukakis Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies
Monday, November 7, 2005 3:27 pm
Bates College has named Laurie O'Higgins, professor of classical and medieval studies, as successor to Anne Thompson in the position of Euterpe B. Dukakis Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies. She will deliver her inaugural lecture at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.