Stories about "Faculty Development and Support"
Conference explores 'write' way to help students thrive

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 2:30 am

Despite mediocre grades, a student gets fired up about African history and…

Bates dance director awarded summer residency in Australia

Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:06 pm

Carol Dilley, associate professor of dance and director of the dance program at Bates College, has received an artist residency to produce a dance project at a cultural center first built as a jail in Newcastle, Australia.

$1 million Mellon grant is latest to support faculty initiatives

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:37 pm

Bates College has been awarded $1 million to enhance the integration of scholarship and research into the lives of the college's 180 faculty members. The grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City will be used to support year-long sabbaticals. Given the intense focus on teaching and collegial service at Bates, these leaves for research are essential to the scholarly vitality of the faculty.

Bates names sports information director

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 10:03 am

Jenny Allen has been named Bates College sports information director in the Office of Communications and Media Relations. She assumed her duties July 5.

Wenzel receives National Science Foundation grant

Wednesday, June 21, 2000 2:05 pm

Thomas J. Wenzel of Auburn, Maine will conduct research aimed at improving the use of NMR spectroscopy in distinguishing pairs of chiral compounds, used to distinguish the left- and right-hand sides of amino acids and other chemical compounds.

"Adolescence at the Millennium: Tales From the Field" to be discussed at Bates

Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:13 pm

Georgia N. Nigro, Whitehouse Professor of Psychology at Bates College, will lead a roundtable discussion on "Adolescence at the Millennium: Tales From the Field" at 4 p.m. Friday, May 12, in the Keck Classroom, Pettengill Hall, Bates College. The event, which celebrates Nigro's appointment as the Whitehouse Professor of Psychology at Bates, is open to the public free of charge.

Ten faculty members promoted at Bates

Monday, September 14, 1998 1:30 pm

Four assistant professors have been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure, two associate professors have been awarded tenure and four associate professors have been promoted to full professor at Bates College, announced President Donald W. Harward.

Bates receives major Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant

Wednesday, July 24, 1996 11:02 am

Bates College has been awarded a $600,000 grant by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for the enhancement of the college's programs in the sciences. It's the third major Hughes grant to Bates in the past six years.