Judy Marden, director of the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area, leads a late-morning New Year's hike or snowshoe at the conservation area on Sunday, Jan. 4

Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove and his band at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, in the Bates College Chapel, College Street. Italian vocalist Roberta Gambarini, who placed third in the 1998 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal Competition within weeks of her arrival in the United States, opens for Hargrove

Students in "Introduction to the Study of the City," an autumn 2003 seminar in the Bates College environmental studies program, have been invited to show posters they made for the course at the inaugural reception of Lionel Guay Jr., who takes office as Lewiston's mayor in January.

Noted scholar Alex Dupuy, professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Wesleyan University, is the keynote speaker for the 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College. Classes at the college are canceled and special programming is scheduled throughout the day with an emphasis on the theme "The Haitian Revolution: The Bicentennial and Its Legacy."

The Bates College Concert Series ends in January with jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove on the 17th and Chinese musicians Tian Qing and Zhang Shan on the 24th.

Bates College is dedicating the third week of January 2004 to programs that reflect the cultural wealth and diversity of that continent, particularly China

The Bates College Concert Series ends in January with jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove on the 17th and Chinese musicians Tian Qing and Zhang Shan on the 24th.

Members of the Bates College science faculties recognized during 2003 for their achievements included a mathematician, a chemist and a geologist.

Members of the Bates College science faculties recognized during 2003 for their achievements included a mathematician, a chemist and a geologist

The Bates College Choir sings music by Schubert and Haydn in 8 p.m. concerts Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5 and 6, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The concerts are open to the public at no charge.

The Bates College Modern Dance Company presents "In a Flurry," a program of dances by student and guest choreographers, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5-6, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, in Schaeffer Theatre, College Street. Admission is free.

The Bates College Center for Service-Learning joins the Lewiston Housing Authority's Youth Enrichment Opportunity Program in displaying the art work of 36 students in an opening reception

History repeats itself, said Marx, the second time as farce. Or as parody, in the case of the award-winning Harvest Dinner at Bates College. The popular annual Bates event, held Nov. 19, adopts a medieval theme, as it did in 2002, when the dinner earned a third-place award in its category from the National Association of College and University Food Services.

Approximately 80 Lewiston High School ninth-graders visit Bates College Thursday, Nov. 13, for "Aspirations Day," a daylong event (from 8:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.) organized by the college's Center for Service-Learning and its education department.

Max Cleland, a Vietnam veteran and former U.S. senator from Georgia, discusses veterans' issues and the impact the Bush administration has had on American military veterans in a speech at 5:30 p.m. today in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Bates College, Campus Avenue.

The Bates College women's soccer and volleyball teams were both one win away from a New England Small College Athletic Conference title and an automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament over the weekend. But both teams lost the championship game, and their seasons officially ended on Sunday night when the Division III Tournament fields were announced, and Bates was not among the institutions invited to either tournament.

Beckmann came to Bates in October 1998 as assistant vice president for financial affairs and controller. She was promoted to vice president for budgeting and accounting and controller in January 2000

Classical pianist Jon Nakamatsu, gold medalist in the 10th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will perform Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Bates College Orchestra at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Regarded by many as the best-known play in the English language, William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is the major fall production of the Bates College theater department.

One of Maine's best-known pianists, Bates College artist-in-residence Frank Glazer performs in solo recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, in the college's Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

President Hansen recently wrote a Letter to the Editor to The Chronicle of Higher Education. It is reproduced here.

Working up to an April 2004 premiere at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, acclaimed visual and performance artist William Pope.L is collecting raw material for his "Black Factory" project from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in Chase Hall Gallery at Bates College, where he teaches.

Working up to an April 2004 premiere at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, acclaimed visual and performance artist William Pope.L is collecting raw material for his "Black Factory" project

Known as a visionary cultural ecologist and philosopher, David Abram will give a talk titled "Wilderness and Shadowed Wonder: Some Words Against the Forgetting of the Earth" at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Bates College.

This weekend Alan Wayne ’60 will complete a coast-to-coast visit of two of the nation’s most historic college football fields. Last Saturday, Wayne was at the Rose Bowl with 61,788 spectators, reporting on the Arizona State-UCLA game. This weekend he will be in the stands at Garcelon Field with a number of Bates football alumni from his era.

Highly regarded as a jazz singer, composer and lyricist, Kurt Elling takes the spotlight for the next entry in the Bates College Concert Series at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Jim Greene, deputy director, Boston City Shelter Commission, will give a talk titled "Corporal, Spiritual and Political Works of Mercy on the Streets of Boston"

Bates is included in a new "Wall Street Journal" ranking of 50 colleges and universities that send the most students to "elite" graduate schools.

An accomplished musician equally at home with blues, zydeco and a spectrum of African and Caribbean styles, Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes comes to Bates College to explore the music of the African Diaspora

Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and professor of neurobiology at Harvard University, will present a talk titled "Achieving Diversity and Intercultural/Racial Understanding in an Academic Setting"

Regarded by many as the best-known play in the English language, William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is the major fall production of the Bates College theater department.

Toni McNaron, professor emeritus of English and women's studies at the University of Minnesota, discusses her book "Poisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia"

John P. Keenan, an Episcopal priest and scholar of Buddhism, discusses his own intellectual and spiritual experiences of living within these two religious traditions at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, Bates College.

The 2003-04 Bates College Concert Series opens at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, with the Zivian-Tomkins Duo, performing Beethoven and Chopin on period fortepiano and cello.

Friday, Oct. 24, is a red-letter night at Bates College for film fans, thanks to visits by two respected directors. The public is invited to attend both events free of charge.

A play, a special presentation and a hike this week will continue a series of events celebrating the 25th anniversary of Bates College's stewardship of the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area, 600 acres of land that include Maine's last undeveloped barrier beach.

Classical pianist Jon Nakamatsu, gold medalist in the 10th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will perform Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Bates College Orchestra at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Argentinean filmmaker Leandro Katz shows his film "El Día Que Me Quieras" (The Day You'll Love Me), a deconstruction of the infamous photographs taken of the slain revolutionary Ché Guevara, at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, in Room 105 of the Olin Arts Center, Bates College.

The Karelian folk band Sattuma, on tour from the province of Russia that borders Finland, comes to Bates College to perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.

Troy Duster, professor of sociology at New York University, will give a talk titled "Colorblindness and the Veil of Privilege: From Redress to Diversity and Back" at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue, Bates College.

Focusing on the impacts of urbanization and industrialization in China, an exhibition of documentary images by seven Chinese photographers opens at the Bates College Museum of Art on Jan. 9, 2004.

As a prequel to the Nov. 4 election in which Maine citizens will vote on a casino proposed by the Penobscot Nation and Passamaquoddy Tribe, arguments for and against the proposal will be presented in two separate 7 p.m. talks on Wednesday, Oct. 22, and Wednesday, Oct. 29, in the Keck Classroom (G52) of Pettengill Hall, Bates College.

of the 1981 film "Mephisto," comes to Bates College to give a lecture titled "Close-up: The Art of Film" at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road.

An accomplished musician equally at home with blues, zydeco and a spectrum of African and Caribbean styles, Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes comes to Bates College to explore the music of the African Diaspora in a lecture-workshop at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Award-winning poet Pattiann Rogers presents a talk titled "Life in an Expanding Universe" for the 2003 Philip J. Otis lecture at Bates College at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue.

Dolores Aponte Ramos, professor of Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, will present a lecture titled "Performing Transgression: Race and Gender in Experimental Art in Puerto Rico" at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20 in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue, Bates College.

The Rev. Jane Adams Spahr of the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, N.Y., presents "Coming Out as a Holy Calling: A Lesbian Christian Minister's Journey" at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Room G65 of Pettengill Hall, Bates College.

Ghosts from Japan and England will share the podium at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College, when an associate professor of English literature at the University of Kyoto contrasts traditional Japanese ghosts with the spirits in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."

The Bates College Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents Kaile Warren, founder of the nationally known handyman business Rent-A-Husband, at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.

Award-winning poet Pattiann Rogers presents a talk titled "Life in an Expanding Universe" for the 2003 Philip J. Otis lecture at Bates College at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue.

Andrés Gomez, a founder of the "Antonio Maceo Brigade," the Miami-based organization of Cubans living in the United States who favor normalized relations with Cuba, presents "David and Goliath: Cuba's Struggle Today," at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, Bates College.

Irish poet Christopher Matthews, author of "A New Life" (Trapdoor Press, 2000) and the just-published "Eyelevel: Fifty Histories" (CavanKerry Press Ltd.), reads from his work at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue, Bates College.

Bates College has been selected as the host for the 2004 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis championships, pending ratification by the NCAA Management Council at a meeting on Oct. 20th. The team tournament will begin on Wednesday, May 12th, and the individual tournament will run from Saturday May 15th through Monday, May 17th at the Wallach Tennis Center.

Bates is included in a new Wall Street Journal ranking of 50 colleges and universities that "send the most students to elite grad schools."

Asking his audience a version of a politician's favorite stump-speech question — "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" — Federal Reserve Board governor Edward M. Gramlich, speaking at Bates Sept. 24, argued that consumers easily tolerate some price inflation in the economy.

DeWitt L. Sumners, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Florida State University, will present "Calculating the Secrets of Life: Mathematics in Biology and Medicine," at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the Keck Classroom (Room G52), Pettengill Hall, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the annual Richard W. Sampson Lecture, and admission is free. A reception in the ground-floor lobby will immediately follow the lecture.

Harel Stanton, an ethnographic photographer raised in Israel, will present a multimedia slide presentation about his country at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, on the Bates College campus. The public is invited to attend this presentation, hosted by Bates Hillel, free of charge.

Psychologist Kate Eastman, Bates class of 1982, presents "Lessons on Living From Dying Children: A Hospice Director's Journey of Hope" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, at Bates College, Campus Avenue.

Don Feder, a writer who published more than 2,000 Boston Herald columns and now hosts a radio show, offers a talk titled "Why the Left Hates Israel" at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St.

Public events now through spring 2004 will mark the 25th anniversary of Bates College's stewardship of the Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area, 600 acres of land that include Maine's last undeveloped barrier beach.

In a symposium Friday and Saturday, Oct. 10-11, Bates College and guests from as far away as Germany will use music, drama and scholarly presentations to mark the 100th anniversary of a milestone in African American thought.

Opening at the Bates College Museum of Art Oct. 17, an exhibition of Russian Orthodox icons spanning several centuries offers an intimate perspective on a genre rarely explored by Maine art presenters: religious objects.

A sports scoreboard rarely merits more than a passing glance. You check who's winning, maybe the inning or time remaining, before turning your attention back to the action on the playing field. Yet at its Bates dedication ceremony on Sept. 20, the new Morgan W. McDuffee '02 Memorial Scoreboard attracted long, pensive looks.

Edward M. Gramlich, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will deliver a talk titled "Federal Reserve Policy Issues: Maintaining Price Stability" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the Keck Classroom (G52) of Pettengill Hall, Bates College.

Education experts on both sides of the school-choice issue debate the question in an event organized by the Bates College Republicans at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue. The panel discussion -- titled "School Choice: The Right Choice for Maine?" -- is open to the public at no charge.

István Szabó, Academy Award-winning director of the 1981 film "Mephisto," is scheduled to lecture at Bates College on Friday, Oct. 24, following a five-week film series focusing on his work (the time and location of the lecture will be announced later).

Led by Ryan Creighton of Lyme, N.H., and Mike Neville-O'Neill of Rowley, Mass., Bates College debaters swept the 2003 American Parliamentary Debate Association's Novice Championships, held Sept. 12 and 13 at Columbia University.

William D. Phillips, whose work in using lasers to "ultracool" and trap atoms won him and two other researchers the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics, visits Bates College to describe that work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue. The lecture is open to the public at no charge.

The Bates College community will gather during Homecoming Weekend to dedicate a scoreboard in memory of Morgan W. McDuffee, at 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, on the Campus Avenue Field, adjacent to John Bertram Hall, Central Avenue. An alumni lacrosse game follows the dedication.

The tuneful, droll and Tufts-bred trio Guster performs in an all-ages concert at Bates College at 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building ("Gray Cage"), Central Avenue.

Weather permitting, students in the Bates College seminar "Introduction to the Study of the City" will make a field trip into local neighborhoods at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, departing from 161-163 Wood St. The 90-minute trip is part of this course in the basics of urban planning and design.

Spearheaded by Georgetown photographer Will Richard, a symposium examining social and political issues in the Arctic presents panel discussions and a film at Bates College from Sept. 29 through Oct. 1.

An exhibition of photographs titled "Children of Our Landscape: Voices From Lewiston" by photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen opens at the Bates College Chapel on Thursday, Sep. 18, with a 4:30 p.m. reception. The public is invited to attend free of charge. The exhibit, also open to the public at no charge, runs through Nov. 21, and the chapel is open daily between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Poet Donald Hall, the Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, reads from his work at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue, Bates College.

Japanese theater comes alive in a discussion and demonstration by accomplished performer and scholar Stephen Comee, Bates College class of 1972, at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street. The public is invited to attend the 90-minute performance free of charge.

Japanese theater comes alive in a discussion and demonstration by accomplished performer and scholar Stephen Comee, Bates College class of 1972, at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street. The public is invited to attend the 90-minute performance free of charge.

"When you visit a place that's really interesting, where you want to spend more time -- well, how did that come to be? Interesting places don't happen just by luck," says town planner Theo Holtwijk. Instead, he says, in many communities those special places have resulted from a painstaking planning and design process.

At Bates College, observances of the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will include the tolling of a bell at the moment the attacks became known, a meditative "slow walk" up Mount David, and a multi-faith, student-organized gathering.

Frank Glazer and James Parakilas, members of the Bates College music faculty who rank among Maine's best-known musicians, perform a program of music for two pianos by Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff and other Russian composers at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street.

Incoming Bates students embark on student-led trips that explore Maine from the coast to the mountains. This year, however, the most innovative orientation trip for the 492 members of the Class of 2007 — a tour of downtown businesses and other civic offerings — took them less than a mile from campus.

If we lose faith in diplomacy to solve the seemingly irreconcilable Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we will have "surrendered to the forces of history," an expert on Middle Eastern diplomacy told the Bates Class of 2007 on Sept. 3, a fate would doom the region to a downward spiral of terror, violence and "the use . . . of weapons of mass destruction, leaving only one winner and one loser."

Zen priest and outdoorsman Stephen Hyde presents "Coming Home: Learning the Sacred and Practical Art of Return" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, at Bates College, Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend this discussion free of charge. Hyde's talk opens a series of lectures, "Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2003-04," sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.

Trian Nguyen, assistant professor of art and Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies at Bates College, has received a $28,000 Fulbright Award to support a year of research and writing that will include a six-month stay in Vietnam.

With the Treasury Department's August auction of T-notes fast approaching, the producers of The Money Gang, a program on CNNfn (the CNN Financial Network), hunted for an expert who could give could give a little zip to the eyelid-drooping topic of bond investing. Jeff Mutterperl '92, one of the show's producers, had done his homework, albeit in an unlikely area.

Folk music players and fans from around the region will converge on Lewiston on Friday evening and Saturday, Sept. 12-13, for the first annual Bates College Old Time Fiddle Festival. Featuring respected musicians from Maine, New Hampshire, Nova Scotia and Ireland, the festival's workshops, mini-concerts and a contradance will be held on campus, while a Saturday evening concert by the band Beòlach takes place at nearby Lewiston Middle School.

Pole beans, cukes, and tomatoes are among the things that Bates senior Rachel Booty and a group of local teenagers grow in downtown Lewiston. They grow youthful aspirations, leadership skills and neighborhood spirit too.

The latest editions of the nation's "go-to" college guides and magazines continue to rank Bates College among the best U.S. liberal arts colleges.

"Manuel López Oliva: Cuba and the Theatre of Desire," the first solo U.S. exhibition by one of Cuba's most famous and accomplished artists, opens Friday, Aug. 22, at the Bates College Museum of Art.

The Bates Dance Festival, northern New England's leading contemporary dance producing and training program, presents the "Festival Finale," featuring the Community Dance Project; a 10th-anniversary performance by the Youth Arts Program; and repertory works by Doug Varone, Nancy Cranbourne and Sara Pearson/Patrik Widrig at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16. in Alumni Gymnasium, on Central Ave.

Aaron David Miller, who advised six U.S. secretaries of state on the Middle East during the past two decades and who this year became president of the international organization Seeds of Peace, opens the 149th academic year at Bates College with the convocation address "Arab-Israeli Peace: Is It Still Possible?" at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3, on the college’s main quadrangle. The rain site will be the Alumni Gymnasium.

The Bates Dance Festival, northern New England's leading contemporary dance producing and training program, presents a double bill featuring "Different Voices," an evening of works by international and U.S. artists presented in Schaeffer Theatre, and "The Atrium Project," a site-specific performance in the Perry Atrium, Pettengill Hall.

From Aug. 2 through 4, forty-nine leaders in chemistry research from U.S. academic institutions, industry and funding agencies will attend a national Undergraduate Research Summit at Bates College

Thanks to a National Science Foundation grant program, a Bates neuroscience major took part in a kind of intensive research this summer that could prove decisive in the next chapters of her life.

Fifty leaders in chemistry research from U.S. colleges, universities and other institutions gather at Bates College Aug. 2-4 for an Undergraduate Research Summit. The gathering will examine issues involved in sustaining chemistry research at primarily undergraduate institutions and will generate recommendations to promote a higher level of student research at those institutions.

The Bates Dance Festival, celebrating its 21st season of producing contemporary dance, presents Companhia Clara Andermatt in concert at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8, and Saturday, Aug. 9, in Schaeffer Theatre, on College Street.

The Bates Dance Festival, celebrating its 21st season of producing contemporary dance, presents Doug Varone and Dancers in concert at 8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 1, and Saturday, Aug. 2, in Schaeffer Theatre, on College Street.

The Bates Dance Festival, northern New England's leading contemporary dance producing and training program, presents its 21st anniversary season, July 19 through Aug. 16.

Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen recently announced five appointments to the college's board of trustees: Darrell W. Crate of Beverly Farms, Mass.; Daniel E. Doyle Jr. of West Hartford, Conn.; John D. Gillespie of Guilford, Conn.; Joel H. Goober of Charlestown, Mass.; and Edmund Wilson of Glenview, Ill.

The Bates Dance Festival, celebrating its 21st season of producing contemporary dance, presents Sara Pearson Patrik Widrig and Company in concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 29, in Schaeffer Theatre, on College Street.

The Bates Dance Festival, celebrating its 21st season of producing contemporary dance, presents Vincent Sekwati Mantsoe in concert at 8 p.m. Friday, July 25, and Saturday, July 26, in Schaeffer Theatre, on College Street.

Bates College has appointed Mark H. C. Bessire as the director of the Bates College Museum of Art, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty Jill Reich announced today.

Featuring a track and field camp led by two former Olympians, summer 2003 at Bates College kicks off with a variety of special programs and institutes.

Dr. Helen A. Papaioanou '49, a revered and tireless Bates Trustee and volunteer who served Detroit's inner-city children as a pediatric allergist, received the Benjamin Elijah Mays Medal, the College's highest alumni award, at the 135th Reunion Alumni Awards Ceremony on June 7.

A jazz accordionist, a Maine master of the Middle Eastern oud and a favorite folk band from Québec are among the attractions in this summer's Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series. This string of five concerts in the intimate amphitheater overlooking the college's Lake Andrews opens at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 17, with Dr. Jeff Grosser and the Razcals Swing Jazz Band.

Emily M. Peckenham, a recent Bates College graduate from Orland, has received a Fulbright Student award for postgraduate work in Germany.

Seven area residents received bachelor's degrees during Bates College's 137th commencement exercises May 26 in an outdoor ceremony on the main campus quadrangle. Stephen L. Carter, a nationally recognized expert on religious freedom, welcomed 443 graduates to what he called the "reasoning class" during his commencement address to some 2,500 spectators. "Human reason is one of God's great gifts to the human race, and it does us no credit when we underuse it," said Carter, who received an honorary doctorate of laws during the ceremony.

Landscape photographs by Rowena Otremba and abstract drawings by the late Lynn Drexler are featured this summer at the Bates College Museum of Art.

Bates College is one of a growing number of colleges and universities nationwide to benefit the environment and local non-profit organizations by selling useful possessions donated by departing students. Formerly known as Dump & Run, Bates' renamed Clean Sweep sale takes place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 31, and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, June 1, at the college's Underhill Arena, 145 Russell St.

There's been a three-for-one special at Bates College Dining Services this spring: the naming of a new director plus national recognition for excellence by two standard-setting institutions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Association of College and University Food Services (NACUFS).

Five Bates student-athletes earned All-America honors at the 2003 NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships held last weekend at St. Lawrence University's Merrick-Pinkard Track.

Fending off a threatening rain nearly until the end of its 137th annual Commencement, Bates College sent 443 graduates into the world Monday in a ceremony that also honored a leading expert on religion and law, a pioneering cardiologist, the head of the United Nations Children's Fund and the college's recently retired sixth president.

It has long been the common wisdom that networking is key to an individual's finding the right job or any job. The Office of Career Services at Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine, has found that it too can use networking tools on a large scale to help graduates find jobs -- tactics more important than ever in a job market that saw the number of U.S. unemployed hitting 8.8 million in April.

Thirty Lewiston High School students will be honored for their work on a dozen projects entered in the high school's fourth annual Science Fair, held May 8.

Twenty-eight Bates College students in a Short Term unit called "Dance as a Collaborative Art" will end a three-week tour of local schools Thursday with a visit to St. Joseph's School, Main Street.

When Bates College senior Brooks Crowley of Goldens Bridge, N.Y., graduates at 10 a.m. Memorial Day, it will be with 93 years of history on his back. At his May 26 Bates commencement, Crowley will wear a family graduation gown originally worn by his great-grandmother, Bertha Cottrell Lee — a member of the Wellesley College Class of 1910 — and 21 relatives who graduated from college since then.

Bates College senior Smadar Bakovic of Neve Illan, Israel, and anti-war activist Jerry Genesio of Bridgton have received the 2003 William Stringfellow Awards for Peace and Justice, awarded in honor of the lawyer and lay theologian, Bates Class of 1949, who was prominent in the American peace movement.

"Tereus in Fragments: A Lost Play of Sophocles," a dramatic version of one of the more disturbing myths from ancient Greece, premieres on the Bates College stage in performances at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 16 and 17, and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 18, in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall, Andrews Road. Admission is $6 for the general public and $3 for students and senior citizens.

Approximately 15 Bates College students will join a group of Lewiston High School students trained by the University of Southern Maine's Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence to clean up Kennedy Park and repaint its basketball court 1-3 p.m. Sunday, May 18.

The Vermont comedy team Gould & Stearns presents "Laughing Matters," a compilation of favorite bits from 23 years of inspiring laughs, in a Bates College performance at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street, Lewiston.

Bates College junior foward Tory Peterson (Rensselaer, N.Y.) was selected to the American Collegiate Hockey Association's Women's Division Academic All-America team in at a banquet in Naples, Fla., April 27th. In addition, Peterson was also selected Scholastic All-America by the American Women's Hockey Coaches Association, at the same function.

In her first commencement exercise as Bates College president, Elaine Tuttle Hansen will confer bachelor's degrees on approximately 450 seniors at 10 a.m. Monday, May 26, in an outdoor ceremony on the historic quad in front of Coram Library.

"Tereus in Fragments: A Lost Play of Sophocles," a dramatic version of one of the more disturbing myths from ancient Greece, premieres on the Bates College stage in performances at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 16 and 17, and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 18, in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall, Andrews Road. Admission is $6 for the general public and $3 for students and senior citizens.

"It's been a great year," says Bryan Brito, director of debate at Bates, whose 2002-03 Brooks Quimby squad ranked among the top 25 of the 68 best teams in the nation competing at the American Parliamentary Debate Association Nationals.

A $1 million gift from an anonymous donor to Bates College has endowed The Robert J. Branham Scholars Program, providing full, need-based scholarships in memory of this revered professor of rhetoric and director of debate's mentorship and personal friendship.

The fourth annual Lewiston High School Science Fair takes place in the high school gymnasium at 156 East Ave. from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday, May 8. Presented in partnership with the Bates College Center for Service-Learning, the fair features more than 450 projects created by students in grades 9 through 12.

Whatever their occupations, Bates alumni know their experiences since graduation constitute a knowledge resource that can benefit both fellow alumni and today's students. And they're not stingy with that resource.

Nine students receive Bates-funded fellowships for research in foreign countriesOne will go to Ireland to explore connections between the wilderness and the monastic way of life. Another will live with families in the Bolivian Andes to better understand ways urbanization and globalization affect rural society. A third will spend two months in Ethiopia researching trade between Africa and Europe. In all, nine Bates students have received research fellowships that will take them to distant places this summer in pursuit of a deeper knowledge of the world's workings.

Environmental students win bid and a retire a permit to polluteFor the third year, students in the 200-level "Environmental Economics" course at Bates College have successfully bid on and purchased a government permit for the atmospheric release of a ton of sulfur dioxide (SO2), a pollutant that causes acid rain.

One will go to Ireland to explore connections between the wilderness and the monastic way of life. Another will live with families in the Bolivian Andes to better understand ways urbanization and globalization affect rural society. A third will spend two months in Ethiopia researching trade between Africa and Europe.

Accompanied by their parents, approximately 150 newly accepted students for the Bates College Class of 2007 arrive on campus for a series of receptions, exhibits, concerts, panel discussions and classroom visits from 9 a.m. through 5 p.m., Friday, April 25.

Bates College tennis coach Paul Gastonguay was named the New England Small College Athletic Conference's Women's Tennis Coach of the Year following the conference's annual post-season tournament which was held at Williamstown, Mass., and Williams College.

For the third year, students in the 200-level "Environmental Economics" course at Bates College have successfully bid on and purchased a government permit for the atmospheric release of a ton of sulfur dioxide (SO2), a pollutant that causes acid rain.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) selection committee chose Bates College men's tennis player Blake Wayman '05 (Concord, N.H.) to participate in the 2003 NCAA Student Leadership Conference, May 25-29, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Musicians from Texas, New York and southern New England will bring fresh perspectives on traditional sounds to Bates College for the second annual WRBC Roots Music Festival from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater, adjacent to the Olin Arts Center, Russell Street (rain site: Gray Athletic Building).

Featuring some of Maine's best-known jugglers, the second annual Bates College Juggling Festival begins at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 10. The festival includes a day of participatory activities in the college's Alumni Gymnasium and an evening performance in the Olin Arts Center by Michael Miclon, Fritz Grobe, Matthew and Jason Tardy, and Bates' own Awestruck Juggling.

James "Huey" Coleman, a leading Maine filmmaker, shows his documentary "Wilderness & Spirit, A Mountain Called Katahdin" at Bates College at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Russell Street. The public is invited to the event at no charge, but donations will benefit event sponsors the Stanton Bird Club, the Androscoggin Land Trust and L/A Trails. The Bates College Outing Club and the Office of the Dean of the College are co-sponsors of the event.

Six Bates College students, including one from Portland, have been named 2002 Phillips Student Fellows, recipients of an award that provides major funding for summer research projects involving meaningful immersion in different cultures.

In photographs, sculpture, ceramics, prints and paintings in a variety of media, 15 art majors cap their Bates College careers with the popular Annual Senior Exhibition, which runs at the Bates College Museum of Art through May 25 and is open to the public at no charge.

Seventy-eight percent of Bates College seniors or alumni applying to graduate programs in the health professions were accepted for matriculation in fall 2003. Meanwhile, 77 percent of Bates applicants were accepted by law schools during the 2001-02 application cycle.

Minister and author Bill Wylie-Kellerman will deliver the William Stringfellow Lecture in Peace and Justice at 8 p.m. Friday, April 25, in the Bates College Chapel, College Street. The public is invited to attend Wylie-Kellerman's talk, sponsored by the chaplain's office, free of charge. The lecture honors the legacy of William Stringfellow, Bates class of 1949, a lawyer and lay theologian prominent in the American peace movement, and coincides with the 2003 William Stringfellow Awards for Peace and Justice presented to Bates senior Smadar Bakovic of Neve Illan, Israel, and Jerry Genesio of Bridgton.

A Bates College senior from Kennebunk is one of five Maine college students to receive the Maine Campus Compact's 2003 Student Heart and Soul Award, presented for outstanding contributions in community service and service-learning.

Bates College invites residents of Lewiston and Auburn to "Affirming Our Community," an Earth Day celebration starting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building, Central Avenue.

Three Bates College students have received Philip J. Otis Fellowships to support exceptional research into the relationship of individuals and societies and the natural world, the Dean of the Faculty's office at Bates has announced.

Katharine Jensvold Shaw, a Bates College senior from Ithaca, N.Y., received one of 48 prestigious research fellowships awarded in March by the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program.

Two Bates College seniors, including one from Maine, were among research presenters at a joint meeting of the Geological Society of America's Northeastern Section and the Atlantic Geoscience Society.

In photographs, sculpture, ceramics, prints and paintings in a variety of media, 15 art majors cap their Bates College careers with the popular Annual Senior Exhibition, opening with a reception at 7 p.m. Friday, April 4. The exhibit at the Bates College Museum of Art runs through May 25 and is open to the public at no charge.

People Eating Plants, a Bates College student group promoting diets free of animal products, has raised nearly $1,200 for a Lewiston charity.

Kelley Puglisi (Scotia, N.Y.), Jesse Carney (Harpswell, Maine), Liz Wanless (Belleville, Ill.), Vanessa Williamson (Auburn, Maine) and Kara Seaton (Wayne, Pa.) all earned All-America accolades at their respective national championship events.

In Olin Arts Center Concert Hall performances a week apart, Bates' Indonesian-style orchestra breaks new ground for the Maine music scene.

The cultural affinity between France and the United States remains robust despite political tempests, as Bates College demonstrates with an upcoming play, a theatrical workshop and an author's discussion of his book about life in a French village.

A cavalcade of Bates academic stars is ready to dazzle the College community and campus visitors at the second annual Mount David Summit, noon-8 p.m. Sunday, March 30.

The Bates College art department presents a slide talk by Matt Tavares, a member of the class of 1997 and the author-illustrator of the children's book "Zachary's Ball," at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in Room 104, Olin Arts Center, Russell Street. The talk is open to the public at no cost.

To celebrate the end of the academic year, WRBC-FM presents three up-and-coming independent bands in concert: Hella, The Quails and the Aislers Set. This concert sponsored by the Bates College campus radio station will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday, March 30, in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St. The show is free and open to the public.

Timothy J. Wise, a prominent social-justice activist and commentator, speaks at Bates College at 4:15 p.m. Friday, March 28, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue. The public is invited free of charge to attend his lecture titled "Beyond Tolerance: Race and Power in an Age of Backlash."

Known for their work in the French cinema and theater, the husband-wife team of Pierre-Olivier Scotto and Martine Feldmann come to Bates College to present an original play and workshop. Scotto's one-man performance of his play "Voyage au Pays de Molière" ("Voyage to the Country of Molière"), directed by Feldmann, takes place at 8 p.m. Monday, March 31.

Bates College presents an evening of island music from all over performed by two Bates bands — the Indonesian-style Gamelan Mawar Mekar and the Steel Pan Rhythm Riders — and their special guests, the Bowdoin College World Music Ensemble, at 8 p.m. Friday, April 4, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street. The concert is free and open to the public.

Peace prevailed at Bates the day it ended in Iraq, but a close look around campus revealed stirrings of reaction that ranged from "God bless America" scrawled in chalk on a Quad walkway to preparations for a late-afternoon community protest against Gulf War II.

Two students from Maine are among the choreographers showing dances in the Bates College Modern Dance Company's Annual Spring Concert of New Work. A profusion of material means the concert is presented in two programs in Schaeffer Theatre, College Street: Program A, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20, and 4 p.m. Saturday, March 22; and Program B, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 21, and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 23.

New York Times reporter Joseph Berger, author of the acclaimed memoir "Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust'' (Scribner, 2001), will give a talk at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 24, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue.

The Bates College Choir performs Mozart's "Requiem," the composer's final work and one of the most intense and finely drawn interpretations of the Roman Catholic Mass, in concerts at 8 p.m. Friday, March 21, and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 22, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street. The concert is free and open to the public.

Ken Bergeron, author of the award-winning cookbook "Professional Vegetarian Cooking," will visit Bates College for two days of vegan food preparation with students and Dining Services staff. We welcome media coverage of the event, which marks the 19th anniversary of the Great American Meatout, the world's largest diet education campaign, on March 20.

In a March 7 talk at Bates designed to "remove the shroud of mystery" from the world of foundation philanthropy, the president of the Wallace–Reader's Digest Funds described how that organization has fundamentally changed its modus operandi.

Hoover Institute Fellow and best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza, known for his challenges to the politically liberal academic establishment, speaks at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St.

Bates College has won a $35,190 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, Mo., to expand entrepreneurial career programming for students and alumni and raise awareness of entrepreneurship in the liberal arts.

Marshall Brown, professor of English and comparative literature at Washington University, will give a talk titled "Frankenstein: A Child's Story" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, in Chase Hall Lounge, Bates College, Campus Avenue. The public is welcome to attend free of charge.

With the end of the winter semester coming into view, public events in the arts and humanities at Bates College reach their peak in March. This jam-packed month includes many presentations of note.

Bates College presents a production of "The Spanish Tragedy," a play considered a major source for Shakespeare's "Hamlet," in performances at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 21-22, and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 23, in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall, Andrews Road. Admission is $6 for the general public and $3 for Bates College faculty and staff, senior citizens and non-Bates students.

The Bates College Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents a talk by the Bates alumni who co-founded the New Hampshire high-tech sensor development firm SignalQuest at 7 p.m. Monday, March 17, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.

Catholic Worker Matt Daloisio will discuss the transformation in his life in a lecture titled "Overturning the 'Filthy, Rotten System': From Aspiring Accountant to Pacific Anarchist by the Age of 22," at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 11, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Bates College, Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend this discussion, part of the "Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2002-03" series sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain, free of charge.

Fiction writer and translator Tahira Naqvi will read from her recent work and answer questions about her writing at 8 p.m. Monday, March 17, in the Benjamin E. Mays Center, Bates College, Russell Street. The public is invited to attend the reading, sponsored by the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, free of charge.

In an event marking the 30th anniversary of the decision that legalized abortion in the United States, Sarah Weddington, the attorney who won Roe v. Wade, will give a talk titled "Some Leaders are Born Women!" at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 13, in the Benjamin Mays Center.

New York Times reporter Joseph Berger, author of the acclaimed memoir "Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust'' (Scribner, 2001), will give a talk at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 24, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend the lecture, titled "Exiles in Paradise: Growing Up As a Refugee in America," free of charge.

Yale University art historian Robert Farris Thompson, a renowned expert in the relationships between the arts and performance of Africa, America and the Caribbean, will offer a lecture titled "Congo Carolina, Congo New Orleans: Adventures in Afro Atlantic Art History"

Bates College debuts its own version of the annual event protesting violence against women. Keynote speaker is Noelle Roop, co-founder of PROUD (People Reaching Out Understanding Diversity), who discusses her own experience as a survivor of violence.

Arguably Maine's best-known pianist and a resident artist at Bates since 1980, Glazer performs works by Bach, Beethoven, Ravel and Chopin.

Prize-winning Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison will New York Times reporter Joseph Berger, author of the acclaimed memoir "Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust'' (Scribner, 2001), will give a talk at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 24, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue.

Maine writer and teacher Rob McCall, pastor of Blue Hill Congregational Church, will give a lecture titled "The Sacredness of Place: A Spiritual Journey in Rural Maine,"

"Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House," an award-winning documentary film by Deborah Dickson about two lesbians who won a landmark domestic-partner benefits case, will be screened as part of the 2003 Maine Jewish Film Festival

In a production that the student cast and crew will take to Hungary this April, the Bates College theater department presents six performances of Eric Bogosian's gritty, darkly comic play "subUrbia."

A South Portland resident, Snow enjoys a varied musical career that includes performing as bandleader and sideman, as well as teaching and studio work.

Green has been making photographs for more than 20 years. His most recent images, the three "Landscape Diary" series, are about the personal significance and surprising beauty of ordinary, often-overlooked places: an empty lot, a quiet meadow we pass every day, a stand of trees along the turnpike, a salt marsh along the highway.

The Bates College Concert Series ends its 2002-03 season with a performance by the celebrated Brentano String Quartet, joined by Maine pianist Yuri Funahashi, at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 8, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street. Tickets are $7 for the general public and $5 for seniors, children and full-time students.

Bates College junior Philip B. Barr, of Lincoln, R.I., was injured in the February 20 nightclub fire in West Warwick, R.I., that killed 99 people and injured more than 180.

The popular annual art exhibit by students from Lewiston Middle School returns to the Bates College Museum of Art next month, opening with a reception at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 6, and running through March 21.

LEWISTON, Maine -- Bates College is adding its support to the defense of the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy in admissions.

Well-known Maine politicians, officials from the public and private sectors, and local Somali residents will join educators and students at Bates College in March for the conference "Toward Harmony: A New Diversity in Lewiston-Auburn."

Four lectures at Bates College in the coming weeks offer provocative, enlightening views on topics ranging from Chinese art to a feminist view of science and values. All four lectures are open to the public at no charge.

With proceeds destined for a Red Cross program addressing issues of youth violence, a 5-kilometer run/walk dedicated to the memory of slain Bates College senior Morgan McDuffee will be held on Sunday, March 2.

Gov. John Baldacci, U.S. Rep. Tom Allen, the co-founder of the pioneering newsweekly Maine Times and a host of experts in land use, economics and agriculture are among presenters at an environmental symposium planned for Feb. 28 and March 1 at Bates College.

International politics came home to Bates Feb. 10 when the Representative Assembly, the college's student governing body, adopted a resolution condemning pre-emptive military action in Iraq.

Classmates Justin Freeman '98 and Dave Chamberlain '98 are members of the U.S. cross country team competing in the World Championships Feb. 18-March 1 at Val di Fiemme, Italy. Freeman and Chamberlain join Nancy Ingersoll Fiddler '78 as the only Bates alumni to represent the United States at a Winter Olympics or World Championships.

Frank Glazer, a resident artist at Bates College since 1980 and arguably Maine's best-known pianist, performs the popular "Invitation to the Dance" and three other works by Carl Maria von Weber at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates, on Russell Street. The concert is free and open to the public.

With the end of the winter semester coming into view, public events in the arts and humanities at Bates College reach their peak in late February and March. To assist with your story planning, the Bates Office of College Relations offers the following highlights from the arts and humanities calendar through the end of March. Detailed press releases will precede most events.

LEWISTON, Maine — Inviting attendees to pen letters to their congressional representatives for or against invading Iraq, the Bates Democrats will host a tribute in words and song to the life and accomplishments of the late U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, in Chase Hall Lounge.

Fourteen members of the Bates College faculty have been awarded funding for student research assistantships this summer.

Julie Wortman's lecture titled "A Politics and Spirituality of Place," scheduled for 4:30 p.m Thursday, Feb. 6, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, Bates College, has been canceled. The talk was part of the "Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2002-03" series sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain.

Civil liberties expert Christopher Pyle discusses terrorism's impact in a talk at Bates College

Lori E. Jessup of Hatboro, Pa., has received a national award for working with disabled Maine skiersBates College junior Lori E. Jessup of Hatboro, Pa., has received a national award for working with disabled Maine skiers as part of the third annual Glamour magazine-sponsored "Best of You" contest, honoring women for "their personal best quality to make a difference in the world."

Inviting attendees to pen letters to their congressional representatives for or against invading Iraq, the Bates Democrats will host a tribute in words and song to the life and accomplishments of the late U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota

Smadar Bakovic, a senior English major at Bates College, will discuss Arab perspectives on the historic mistrust between Arabs and Jews

Chris Hables Gray, a noted cyberculture expert and activist, will discuss the social implications of altering the human body through technology in a Bates College lecture

Through Jan. 31, the Bates College student organization Sangai Asia celebrates the Lunar New Year with Bates Asian Week, a festival including a concert by singer Magdalen Hsu-Li, a lecture on democracy in China and a neighborhood fireworks display, all open to the public at no charge.

A spiritual healer in the Christian Science tradition, Overton-Jung gives a talk titled "Building Unity Through Forgiveness" at Bates College

An exhibition of photographs titled "From Lynn to Lhasa: Photographs of Cambodian, Chinese, and Tibetan Buddhists" by Harvard photographer Kris Snibbe opens at the Bates College Chapel on Sunday, Jan. 26.

Alex Dupuy, professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Wesleyan College, is the keynote speaker for the 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College

Internationally recognized for her pioneering work on how advertising represents alcohol, tobacco and the image of women, author Jean Kilbourne offers a slide presentation

Sumarsam, a Wesleyan University professor who had his first experience with Indonesian performing arts as a boy in his East Javanese village, devotes two evenings to Indonesian shadow puppetry at Bates this week.

The virtues of a liberal arts education don't spring immediately to mind when you imagine two guys putt-putting around Nantucket Harbor peddling homemade fruit juice to thirsty boaters. But there's a real connection between the entrepreneurial spirit behind a business like Nantucket Nectars — which today employs 150 and markets its extensive juice line in 40 states, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean — and the traits nurtured at small liberal arts colleges.

A two-year, $50,000 grant just awarded to the Bates College Museum of Art will support educational programming for 400 local middle-school students at the museum.

Rabbi Thomas M. Alpert of Temple Tifereth Israel in Malden, Mass., will discuss changing careers in midlife in a lecture titled "Your Not-So-Young Shall See Visions: Reflections of a New Second-Career Rabbi"

Randoph Croxton, an internationally recognized innovator in the field of environmentally sustainable architecture, discusses the topic at Bates College

Four panelists, sounding off on a variety of issues, will present a discussion titled "The Implications of a Republican-Controlled Government," followed by a question-and-answer period, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29.

On behalf of the Bates College chemistry department, Charles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry Thomas Wenzel has received a two-year grant totaling more than $100,000 to support a teaching and research fellow at Bates.

Known for his stylistic reach, his technical chops and his profoundly imaginative improvisations, jazz guitarist Pat Martino performs at Bates College at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission to this entry in the Bates College Concert Series is $7 ($5 for seniors).

The Bates Seminar Series on Entrepreneurship presents Tom First, co-founder of the popular fruit drink line, who discusses how he and partner Tom Scott built their business.

Award-winning filmmaker Joanne Grant, a writer and veteran civil rights activist of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, is the keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College.

A Jan. 15 lecture by a former prime minister of Somalia is one of a series of events that Bates College is presenting in response to the World Church of the Creator, a national white supremacist and anti-Semitic organization that plans to protest Somali immigration in a Jan. 11 meeting in Lewiston.

Ali Khalif Galaydh, Somalia's former prime minister and now a professor at the University of Minnesota, visits Bates College to discuss the past, present and future of his native land.