Bates College | Two Receive Watsons

Fall/Winter 2004

Summer/Fall 2001

Winter/Spring 2001

Two receive Watsons

Graduates to study tern migration, child protection

Amanda Harrow '06

Seniors Amanda Harrow of Hopkinton, Mass., and Andrew Stowe of Wallingford, Conn., received 2006 Thomas J. Watson Fellowships, $25,000 grants supporting a year of independent research abroad.

Harrow, the biological child of a couple who has supported 24 foster children over the years, will research child protection practices in New Zealand, where she will look at the influence of the Maori culture on family counseling; in Peru, for the role of nongovernmental organizations; in Uganda, for the impacts of religious organizations and AIDS; and in Sweden, for the correlation between the state welfare system and low rates of child abuse.

Harrow was one of two recipients of Bates’ 2006 William Stringfellow Award in Justice and Peace, and led the “alternative Short Term” program described on page 8.

Andrew Stowe '06

Stowe will follow the 24,000-mile global migration of the arctic tern between northern Canada and Antarctica, hoping to expand scientific knowledge of the species and examine how it is affected by various national environmental policies. “The length and the duration of that migration is absolutely mind boggling,” says Stowe.

He and Harrow are among 50 students across the country to receive a Watson this year.

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			Cambodia Memoir: In 1980, 17-year old Scott Allen volunteered in the Cambodian refugee camps, helping the Duong family gain asylum in America. Years later, Kanya Duong stunned him with her story, forcing Allen to revisit his past.

			Shifting from Neutral: Here’s how Bill Corlett makes his classroom the right room for a political argument

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			PreAmble: Change is good

			Bates Matters: CONCENTRATED EFFORT — In defining the structure of a Bates education outside the major, the faculty moves toward a goal-oriented approach

			Open Forum: Opinions from the readers of Bates Magazine

			Scene Again: 1971 — Corretta Scott King, D.Lit.

			Your Page: CHERNOBYL — Twenty years later, his recollections don't fit into a neat narrative

			Vital Statistics