LEWISTON, Maine — Its environmental policies and practices make Bates College a leader among American universities and colleges in a survey that the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) released in October

Under the direction of a Bates College junior and two Lewiston Middle School (LMS) teachers, a group of eighth graders will host a hands-on "Diversity Day" for 30 preschoolers from 9:30-11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, in the Lewiston Middle School Library.

A student from a college with an internationally recognized debate program has helped high schools in the nation's capital launch a debate league of their own

New York architect Elizabeth Donoff discusses her photographs of two structures designed by Le Corbusier, one of the 20th century's most influential architects, in a lecture at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, at the Bates College Museum of Art. The lecture, followed by a reception for Donoff's exhibition at the museum, is free and open to the public.

One of the best and best-known American chamber ensembles, the Guarneri String Quartet is coming to Bates College for a rare Maine appearance, performing in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6. Admission is $15, except $10 for seniors and students and free for Bates students.

Bates College has received a $1 million gift and pledge from the Orr Family Foundation, founded by trustee James F. Orr III, to support a distinguished visiting professorship in honor of human rights advocate Benjamin E. Mays, a 1920 Bates graduate who influenced a generation of civil rights leaders.

Fourteen Bates College students have received Arthur Crafts Awards to assist them in developing and implementing service-learning projects.

Bates students receive awards for service-learning internships

Bates visiting professorship honors human rights leader

Senior guard Kate Dockery '02 earned Maine, NESCAC and ECAC Women's Basketball Player of the Week honors for her record-setting peformance against Maine-Farmington on Dec. 8.

"There are no ethical limits to the weapons that will be used against us," said former national security adviser Leon Fuerth during his Dec. 7 presentation titled "Attacks on America."

A student from a college with an internationally recognized debate program has helped high schools in the nation's capital launch a debate league of their own.

Off to a 3-1 start in the 2001-02 campaign, the Bates College men's basketball team hosts the first round of the Bates-Bowdoin Classic on Dec. 1 in Alumni Gymnasium

Beginning Dec. 5, alumni, parents and friends may go online with their credit card to make gifts to the Bates Fund.

On Dec. 10, a Bates College event series exploring differences in race, gender and other characteristics presents a documentary film about minority scholars and a lecturer nationally known for her work on diversity issues.

William E. Little Jr. appointed to Bates College Board of Overseers

Boston filmmakers DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter will screen the Maine premiere of "Lift," their dramatic film about shoplifting at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26, in the Keck Room, Pettengill Hall, at Bates College. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

Running from Dec. 6 through March 24, two exhibits at the Bates College Museum of Art approach architecture from very different angles.

Nine Bates College fall student-athletes have been named to All-NESCAC teams this season, led by two-time volleyball defensive Player of the Year, Lauren Fennessey '02

Acclaimed dancer and choreographer Clyde Evans Jr. will discuss and demonstrate the art of hip-hop in a Bates College performance at 9:15 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, in the Olin Arts Center, Russell Street.

On Nov. 2, the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area (BMMCA) Corporation, which owns the coastal research area administered by Bates College, received the Partnership Service Award from the Androscoggin Valley Soil and Water Conservation District.

Evette Rios, a member of Bates Class of 1999 and an entrepreneur in network marketing will discuss strategies and ethics for new entrepreneurs

For Bates College, a $5.5 million grant to Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL) will translate into many more biomedical research opportunities for students and support for an expanded network of biomedical researchers.

Professor Patricia Gurin, an expert defense witness in lawsuits challenging the University of Michigan's race-based admission policies, discusses her research supporting classroom diversity at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives at Bates College. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Boasting an original score and a design scheme out of Buck Rogers, an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's social satire "Brave New World" opens the Bates College theater season.

In a survey of more than 500 colleges by the American Institute of PhysicsIn a survey of more than 500 colleges whose ultimate degree is a baccalaureate, the American Institute of Physics ranked Bates College seventh in the number of physics majors it graduates annually.

A study written by economist Howard Bodenhorn of Lafayette CollegeThe Bates College Department of Economics ranks second in the nation in the number of times its faculty's scholarly research is cited by other researchers.

Glenn Kumekawa, a leading public-planning expert and a veteran of a World War II relocation camp for Japanese Americans, discusses the implications of the relocation camps in the post-Sept. 11 civic environment at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25, in Chase Lounge at Bates College. The public is welcome at no charge and refreshments will be provided.

Bates College will celebrate Native American Heritage Month with a series of events sponsored by the Multicultural Center, beginning with a talk by photographer Kenji Kawano, author of the book "Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers."

Prizewinning poet and fiction writer Marge Piercy, whose critically acclaimed narratives link people, passion and politics, will read from her work during the Annual Writers Harvest at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, in the Benjamin Mays Center at Bates College.

The Bates College women's soccer team will host five of their NESCAC rivals in the first round of the conference tournament on October 21.

During the Fall 2001 recess, which runs through Sunday, Oct. 21, Information and Library Services at Bates College will be upgrading many network services. This work affects the availability of on-line service during the break.

The documentary film "Helen Nearing & The Good Life: Conscious Living and Conscious Dying" will be shown at Bates College at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23.

Bates professor says fear causes silence of eminent Muslim scholars on attacksA month after suicide-terror attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. killed almost 6,000 people, fear still locks the voices of the eminent Middle East clergy of Islam

Gary Paul Nabhan, who spent a year eating only foods produced in the desert Southwest within 250 miles of his home, discusses that experience at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23. The lecture is free and open to the public.

National college guides and magazines continue to rank Bates College among the best liberal arts colleges in the nation.

The National Association of Collegiate Women's Athletic Administrators (NACWAA) has recognized Bates College Director of Athletics Suzanne Coffey as its 2001 NCAA Division III Administrator of the Year. Coffey will be honored at the Jostens Administrator of the Year banquet Oct. 15 in Wilmington, N.C.

Nobel Peace Prize nominee Elise Bjorn-Hansen Boulding will discuss how the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks might affect prospects for world peace in a lecture at Bates College at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, in Chase Hall at Bates. Part of the Muskie Archives Lecture Series, the event is open to the public free of charge.

A Chinese painting exhibition by Nanjing artist Zhang Yi will be on view in the Bates College Museum of Art Lower Gallery Sept. 28 through Nov. 25.

A Roman's defense in a seduction suit, ethnic identities in Australian soccer and the search for sex at Ellis Island are some of the topics at hand in the third annual Faculty Symposium at Bates College on Saturday, Sept. 29.

Noted sociologist and writer Allan Johnson will discuss issues of social inequality and privilege in his lecture, "Privilege, Power, and Difference," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, in the Bates College Edmund S. Muskie Archives.

The critically and popularly acclaimed band Counting Crows will perform at Bates College at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building.

20-year-old sitar prodigy and daughter of renowned Indian virtuoso Ravi Shankar will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, in the Bates College Chapel.

Photographer Harvey Wang documents the lives of a group of homeless men in New York City.

Jerry O'Sullivan will perform traditional Irish music on pipes and whistle at Bates College in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at 8 p.m. Wednesday, September 26.

LEWISTON, Maine -- The American Red Cross will be hosting a blood drive at Bates College in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building from 1 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, September 18. The blood drive is open to the public, and walk-ins are welcome.

Reaction to events on September 11, 2001, as two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade CenterIn wake of September 11, Bates will 'rely on community'Bates College classes were canceled at 1 p.m., Sept. 11, several hours after hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Another hijacked plane crashed outside Pittsburgh, Pa.

Bates Dining Services wins award for lobster recipe

An exhibition of paintings and drawings by distinguished artist Hyman Bloom will be on view at the Bates College Museum of Art from Sept. 14 through Oct. 17.

James McBride, an award-winning composer, saxophonist and best-selling author whose writing explores the complexities of racial identity, officially opened the 147th academic year at Bates College with the convocation address "The Color of Water: A Meditation on Identity" on Sept. 5.

The 2001-02 Bates College Concert Series continues with a pair of performances by Trio Parole.

The first students arrived at Bates in a trickle. The trickle of arrivals would become a steady stream by Sept. 1.

Field hockey standout Peg Ficks '01 has been named NCAA Woman of the Year from Maine.

The presidents of 18 Maine institutions of higher education join Sen. George Mitchell to commit their colleges and universities to a deeper involvement in civic responsibility .

Internationally acclaimed pianist and Nonesuch recording artist Richard Goode will open the 2001-02 Bates College Concert Series

Critically acclaimed author James McBride explores the complexities of racial identity

The Bates College tennis and squash programs will undergo an exchange of head coaches in the 2001-02 year.

Several Holocaust survivors will speak at the 11th annual Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine summer seminar, "Teaching the Holocaust: Implications for the 21st Century," at Bates

Dance innovator and cultural activist Liz Lerman presents new work at the Bates Dance Festival.

The United Baptist Church of Lewiston and Central Maine Medical Center are receiving nearly $500,000 each and Bates College is receiving nearly $1 million from the estate of Norman and Marjorie Ross, the three institutions announced.

Milt Lindholm, Bates admissions director between 1944 and 1976, has been honored by the Maine Senate on the celebration of his 90th birthday.

How do Indian students with scarce resources consistently outscore U.S. students in math and science? A Bates alumnus using a new alumni travel grant intends to find out.

Susan Bove Kinney of West Simsbury, Conn., and Rick Powers of Old Greenwich, Conn., have been elected to the Board of Overseers by the alumni of Bates College; David S. Barlow of Wellesley, Mass., and The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes of Cambridge, Mass., have been appointed to serve on the bicameral board of trustees at Bates College, President Donald W. Harward has announced.

Bates prepares for the incoming Class of 2005

Bates College junior Dominick Pangallo of Salem, Mass., has been named the winner of an American Association of Political Consultants scholarship opportunity for summer 2001.

Bates College presented awards to distinguished alumni at the college's Reunion Weekend 2001.

The Bates Dance Festival, northern New England's leading contemporary dance producing and training program, announces its 2001 performance season, July 21 through Aug. 18.

2001 cum laude graduate Nicole Goloskov has produced a video portrait of Rockland, Maine, by pinhole photographer Chris Pinchbeck,

Avid readers looking for something to do this summer are taking suggestions from the College Bookstore.

Robert Reich urges Bates students to seek balance and self-knowledge during June 4 commencment exercises.

Bates juniors receive national and scholarships to support graduate education.

Funding available to give students research experience focusing on the community and local connections.

The play uses Japanese Bunraku puppets and human actors to tell the story of the titan who betrayed the gods and taught man the secret of fire

The President and Trustees of Bates College are pleased to announce that Burton M. Harris, of Swampscott, Mass., has been elected the Chairperson of the Corporation effective June 2, 2001. Mr. Harris will begin his duties at the conclusion of the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, and replace James L. Moody, Jr., who will retire from his post as Chairperson, concluding 14 years in that position.

Bates College students Megan Gadsby of St. Michaels, Md.; Elizabeth Kreischer of Arlington Mass.; John Minor of Wilmington, N.C.; and Christopher Westcott of Princeton, N.J., have been named 2001 Phillip J. Otis Fellows and will each receive a $5,000 grant for research and travel to promote greater understanding of environmental issues and the connection between the environment and spirituality.

Bates College, and its community partner LA Excels, have received a grant of up to $80,000 to support 10 community research fellowships for the summer of 2001 and 2002 for Bates College students. The award, from The Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education (CAPHE) and the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), is part of a national program, "Engaging Campuses and Communities."

Bates' acceptance rates for medical school are significantly higher than the national average.

Seven Bates juniors have been named 2001 Phillips Student Fellows and will each receive grants of up to $10,000 for summer research projects.

The Bates College men's tennis team has earned its second straight berth in the NCAA Division III tournament.

LEWISTON, Maine –- In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ronald Lee, executive director of the Toronto-based Roma (commonly known as "Gypsy") Community & Advocacy Center, will speak about "The Romanian Holocaust" at 7 p.m. Friday, April 12, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Russell Street. The public is invited to attend this talk, sponsored by the Multicultural Center at Bates College, free of charge.

Lewiston Middle School hosts first Cultural Heritage Night

Kurt Eilhardt, a senior classical and medieval studies major at Bates College, was recently awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study medieval Nordic culture and the introduction of Christianity to Norway at the University of Oslo in 2002.

Bates College junior Jason Surdukowski of Concord, N.H., a double major in studio art and political science, has been named a 2001 Harry S. Truman Scholar, one of 70 students nationwide to receive a $30,000 scholarship awarded on the basis of leadership potential, intellectual ability and the likelihood of "making a difference."

Professor of comparative literature to discuss women and sovereignty in 19th-century China at Bates

In a brief but broad-ranging interview with The Christian Science Monitor, Bates College President Donald W. Harward discusses the particular value of a liberal arts education, and the linking of academic rigor with service to community.