Bates in the News
Below is a sampling of news stories about Bates and Bates alumni.
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FridayDecember 9, 2011 |
Swampscott Patch profiles restaurateur Matt O’Neil ’00Leading up to the traditional Thanksgiving Day football game between Swampscott and Marblehead high schools, the local Patch profiles a former Swampscott player and Bates alumnus, Matt O’Neill ’00, now chef and owner of the Blue Ox Restaurant. |
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TuesdayNovember 15, 2011 |
Cubist CEO Mike Bonney ’80 talks about careers and superbugs with NECNCubist CEO Mike Bonney ’80 shares his career path from drugstore manager to pharmaceutical CEO, and talks about the company’s superbug-fighting product, the antibiotic Cubicin. |
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TuesdayNovember 8, 2011 |
Sun Journal’s Kalle Oakes gives kudos to Bates footballSun Journal columnist Kalle Oakes writes about the rising fortunes of Bates football in 2011. |
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TuesdayNovember 8, 2011 |
Worcester Business Journal profiles environmental CEO Wilk ’82The Worcester Business Journal offers a Q-and-A interview with Lisa Farrell Wilk ’82, president and CEO of Capaccio Environmental Engineering… |
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TuesdayNovember 8, 2011 |
Harvard Crimson reports on Chapel’s naming for Peter Gomes ’65Harvard Crimson staff writer Justin Worland reports on the Bates Chapel’s naming in memory of Peter Gomes ’65, the late… |
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TuesdayOctober 18, 2011 |
NOVA intern Sarah Charley ’11 starts with a jokeSarah Charley ’11 explains the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and how an electron can sometimes be like a “sheet crumpled into a ball” and other times like a “quilt spread across a bed” |
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TuesdayOctober 18, 2011 |
The Root features interview with King V. Cheek ’59, former HBCU presidentThe Root, in collaboration with The HistoryMakers, offers reflections from educational leader King V. Cheek Jr. ’59. With his brother… |
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TuesdayOctober 18, 2011 |
Patch interviews encaustic artist Amy Keller '87South End Patch reporter Christopher Treacy interviews encaustic artist Amy Keller ’87 of Kingston, Mass., about her work and about… |
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TuesdayOctober 11, 2011 |
Physicist Childress among 'spin doctors' making quantum discoveryWhile physicists have been able for decades to measure the spin state of a single atom in a vacuum, previous techniques for measuring the spin of a single electron or nucleus in a solid state disturb surrounding spins. Now researchers including Lilian Childress, assistant professor of physics at Bates, have developed a way to measure spin that avoids this problem. |
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ThursdaySeptember 15, 2011 |
Independent profiles international Internet entrepreneur Buckman '91The Independent profiles John Buckman ’91, calling him “a man without borders, who splits his time between London and Silicon… |












