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Two faculty members promoted at Bates

LEWISTON, Maine -- An assistant professor has been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure and an associate professor has been promoted to full professor at Bates College, announced President Donald W. Harward.

William G. Ambrose, assistant professor of biology awarded tenure, specializes in the ecology of marine soft sediments with particular interests in carbon cycling in the Arctic and invertebrate fisheries biology. Ambrose graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in biology from Princeton University and received his doctoral degree in marine sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has taught at East Carolina University, Williams College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. He also has been a Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo in Norway and a national research council postdoctoral fellow at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Jane Costlow, promoted to the rank of full professor of Russian, won the 1997 Heldt Prize for best essay in Slavic women's studies. The award is given annually by the Association of Women in Slavic Studies.

Costlow's essay, "The Gallop, the Wolf, the Caress: Eros and Nature in 'The Tragic Menagerie,'" explores Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal's 1907 autobiographical novel, an account of childhood in Russia just before the revolution.

Costlow also has translated the novel into English, which was published in 1998 by Northwestern University Press. She decided to translate the work after using a few chapters in a Russian literature class at Bates, where themes of girlhood and environmental issues resonated with students.

A member of the Bates faculty since 1986, Costlow graduated from Duke University and received master's and doctoral degrees from Yale University.