Stories about "interdisciplinary studies"
Bates awards Johnson, Whitehouse professorships
Friday, December 1, 2006 3:58 pm
Bates College has recently appointed two faculty members to four-year term professorships, President Elaine Tuttle Hansen announced.
New lecture series explores links between natural sciences, humanities
Thursday, December 12, 2002 2:56 pm
"Science, Power, and Difference," a new lecture series at Bates College, will present innovative research into the social, cultural and political dimensions of the natural sciences.
Bates College students compose computer music
Thursday, October 21, 1999 12:00 am
Seventeen Bates College student composers enrolled in "Computers, Music and the Arts," a course taught by William Matthews, the Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music, will give a concert of new work using digital recording, sampling and synthesizers at 9 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall on the Bates campus. The public is invited to attend free of charge. For additional information, call the Olin Arts Center at 207-786-6135.
Dedication ceremony to take place for Pettengill Hall
Thursday, September 30, 1999 12:00 am
Bates College will dedicate its new academic building, the Frederick B. and Ursula P. Pettengill Hall, at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, on the corner of Bardwell Street and Andrews Road as the highlight of its 1999 Celebrate Bates! Alumni and Parents Weekend.
Bates awarded grant to support interdisciplinary teaching
Monday, March 30, 1998 4:19 pm
Bates has received a $1.2-million grant from the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation of New York City to establish a professorship in interdisciplinary studies, Bates' president Donald W. Harward announced.
Bates professors receive a Templeton Grant
Thursday, June 19, 1997 11:44 am
John Smedley, associate professor of physics, and Thomas Tracy, professor of religion, have been awarded a $10,000 grant by the John Templeton Foundation for their course "Caring for Creation."
Bible conference to be held
Monday, October 21, 1996 12:00 am
In an effort to link the academic work of Maine scholars with community interest in the Bible, the Department of Philopsohy and Religion at Bates College will host a three-day conference of biblical studies on Friday Nov. 1, Sat. Nov. 2 and Sunday Nov. 3. The public is invited to attend free of charge.
'Culture' is lecture topic
Monday, September 23, 1996 10:07 am
Author and professor Bruce Lincoln, hailed as one of the leading thinkers in the area of cultural studies, will discuss the meaning of the word "culture" in a lecture on Monday, Sept. 30.