Stories about "Partners and public"
Bates College welcomes community to Earth Day celebration
Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:09 pm
As it does every year, Bates College invites residents of Lewiston and Auburn to "Affirming Our Community," an Earth Day celebration starting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 29, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building, 130 Central Avenue.
$100,000 Hearst grant strengthens scholarship support for Maine students
Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:47 am
The William Randolph Hearst Foundations have awarded Bates College a second grant of $100,000 to support scholarships that help make it possible for Maine students to attend Bates.
Bates College Museum of Art photography exhibition depicts China in transition
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 12:10 pm
Focusing on the impacts of urbanization and industrialization in China, a nationally significant exhibition of documentary images by Chinese photographers opens at the Bates College Museum of Art with a lecture and reception at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16, 2004.
Opportunities flourish in Bates senior’s gardens
Friday, August 8, 2003 10:46 am
Scion of a farming family in Sandwich, N.H., Booty has put her agricultural experience to work for Lots to Gardens, a Lewiston-based nonprofit founded in 1998 by another Bates student, Kirsten Walter. Booty — who is as passionate about civic involvement as she is about raising food — is the youth coordinator for the program, which uses gardening projects to strengthen community and support local young people.
Campus watches, waits, reacts as war news arrives
Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:05 am
Peace prevailed on campus the week it ended in Iraq, but a close look revealed reactions that covered the spectrum — from student and faculty participation in a community war protest to remarks at Bates in support of the U.S.-led attack by national policy analyst Dinesh D'Souza.
Lewiston Middle School students to show art
Monday, February 24, 2003 2:49 pm
The popular annual art exhibit by students from Lewiston Middle School returns to the Museum of Art next month. The exhibit will run from March 6 through March 21.
Bates, peer colleges file in support of University of Michigan admissions policy
Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:44 pm
Bates College is adding its support to the defense of the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy in admissions.
Bates hosts major conference on Lewiston-Auburn diversity
Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:00 pm
Well-known Maine politicians, officials from the public and private sectors, and local Somali residents will join educators and students at Bates College in March for the conference "Toward Harmony: A New Diversity in Lewiston-Auburn."
McDuffee Memorial 5K Run/Walk to support youth-violence prevention
Thursday, February 13, 2003 2:28 pm
With proceeds destined for a Red Cross program addressing issues of youth violence, a 5-kilometer run/walk dedicated to the memory of slain Bates College senior Morgan McDuffee will be held on Sunday, March 2.
Grant supports public school programming at Bates museum
Monday, January 20, 2003 1:50 pm
A two-year, $50,000 grant recently received by the Museum of Art will support educational programming for 400 local middle school students at the museum. The grant supports the museum's Thousand Words Project.