1. EPA honors Bates for leadership in renewable energy use
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized Bates College for its leading role in the use of electricity from renewable sources, President Elaine Tuttle Hansen has announced. www.bates.edu/x151987.xml

2. Graduate programs in health care accept 90 percent of Bates applicants
Ninety percent of Bates College seniors and alumni applying to graduate programs in the health professions for fall 2006 matriculation were accepted. Eighty-five percent of Bates applicants were accepted to medical or osteopathic schools, according to a report issued in November by the college's Medical Studies Committee, vs. a national average of around 48 percent. Bates students are typically accepted into graduate programs in law and the health professions at a rate higher than the national average. www.bates.edu/x152925.xml

3. Applying to med school in 2007?
If you are applying to medical school for matriculation in the fall of '08, and plan to have an interview with the Medical Studies Committee, the deadline to register is Dec. 15. Find all of the information you need at: abacus.bates.edu/career/grad/med/. Questions? Contact Jill Helmkamp at: jhelmkam@bates.edu or professor Lee Abrahamsen at labraham@bates.edu.

4. Guidance for fellowship applications available to alumni
Bates graduates have a source of help on campus for graduate fellowship and scholarship applications. The Graduate Fellowships Committee (chaired by Associate Professor of Anthropology Elizabeth Eames and made up of Bates faculty and staff) reviews applications from recent alums and current students for prestigious awards such as the Rhodes, Javits, Jack Kent Cooke, and Fulbright fellowships. For awards that require nomination by an institution, the committee chooses the most competitive candidates from the pool of all Bates applicants. Contact Graduate Fellowships Adviser Sagaree Sengupta (ssengupt@bates.edu) for more information. abacus.bates.edu/career/fellowship/fellowships.html

5. Grants available for summer 'Projects for Peace'
The Davis United World Scholars Program, which funds a number of scholarships for international students at Bates each year, has decided to fund "100 Projects for Peace" at the 76 colleges at which they have scholarships, including Bates. The awards will be made to a student or group of students at each college who design the most promising and do-able project, funded at $10,000 each, which they will implement during the summer of 2007 anywhere in the world. www.bates.edu/x152970.xml

6. Bates honors leadership donors at two fall events
Bates Trustees, leadership donors and campaign volunteers joined President Elaine Tuttle Hansen, faculty and staff Oct. 27 to celebrate the unprecedented success of The Campaign for Bates: Endowing Our Values. The campaign concluded June 30, 2006, with 18,813 donors contributing nearly $121 million. In early November the College welcomed four new members into the Benjamin Bates Society during a special weekend in Boston featuring presentations on top College priorities and other activities. Inaugurated in 2005, the Society recognizes donors whose lifetime gifts to Bates total $1 million or more.

View a full article and slideshow for the campaign celebration dinner. www.bates.edu/x153059.xml

View a full article and slideshow for the Benjamin Bates Society meeting. www.bates.edu/x153060.xml

7. Did You Know?
The Web version of an ABC World News broadcast story on Bates' optional SAT admissions policy posted the day after it was televised in October was the third most viewed story of the day, according to Bob Jamieson, ABC News correspondent. Jamieson said the ABC News Web site drew 4.3 million unique visitors that day. More than 7 million viewers watched the original broadcast.

8. Honoring Alan Goddard '53
Forty alumni winners of the Alan C. Goddard '53 Award for Achievement in Football returned to campus Oct. 28 to honor Al Goddard. It was a bittersweet homecoming, because he was in the later stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Four weeks later, on Nov. 24, Goddard died in his sleep at home in New London, N.H. View images from the Homecoming ceremony honoring Al Goddard and from the Bates-Colby football game afterward at: www.bates.edu/x153092.xml

9. Search under way for new athletic director
Applications are now being reviewed and July 2007 is the target date to have the new athletic director on board, says search committee chair Jill N. Reich, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty. Also serving on the search committee are: Jim Murphy, head women's soccer and basketball coach; Joe Reilly, head men's basketball coach; Mark Harriman, head football coach and assistant athletic director; Tedd Goundie, dean of students; Karen Kothe, associate dean of admissions; Mike Retelle, professor of geology; and Kathy Low, professor of psychology. Reich offered special thanks to Dana Mulholland for serving as interim athletic director after former AD Susanne Coffey announced her resignation in June to become AD at Amherst.

10. Nominations sought for alumni awards
The Alumni Council invites your nominations of fellow alumni for one of the five awards presented each year during Reunion or Homecoming. The awards include: The Benjamin E. Mays Medal, The Helen A. Papaioanou '49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award, The Bates College Alumni Service Award, The Sesquicentennial Award and The Distinguished Young Alumni Award. For more information on the awards, or to nominate a fellow alumnus/a for an award, go to: www.bates.edu/x153127.xml

11. Make your 2006 tax-deductible contribution to Bates
For many Bates donors, December is the ideal time to make an annual gift to the College for tax advantages. With Dec. 31 quickly approaching, please visit the Web page below to learn how to make your gift to Bates. www.bates.edu/x153330.xml

12. Bates People in the News
Following a New York City dinner meeting of top U.S. media organizations and a dozen top colleges and universities, a comment by Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen about the worth of college rankings appeared in The Arizona Republic. Meanwhile, Bates' resident expert on Congress, politics professor John Baughman, spoke with The Associated Press about the role that Maine's two senators will play on a newly Democratic Capitol Hill. And on the lighter side, Bill Burleigh '86 and his Laramie River Dude Ranch were featured on a Nickelodeon "Nick News Adventure." www.bates.edu/bates-in-the -news.xml