This Portland resident, Maine native and leading Maine abstractionist opens his Bates College Museum of Art exhibition "William Manning: Works on Paper 1961-2002"

In response to a Jan. 11 meeting in Lewiston planned by the World Church of the Creator, a national white supremacist and anti-Semitic organization, Bates College is working with the Lewiston-Auburn community to schedule alternative programs to oppose hatred and bias.

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.

"Science, Power, and Difference," a new lecture series at Bates College, will present innovative research into the social, cultural and political dimensions of the natural sciences.

Bates College has received a state grant of nearly $170,000 for analytical equipment that will significantly advance studies of climate change, the coastal environment and the ecological impact of Maine's ancient inhabitants.

Does the type of school an undergraduate attends really make a difference? A new survey of college and university alumni suggests that it does.

Linda F. Williams, assistant professor of music at Bates College, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant, her second, to conduct research in South Africa during 2003.

The Bates College Modern Dance Company presents "From Far and Near," a program of dances by student and guest choreographers, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Bates College, Russell Street. Admission is free.

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

The students, participants in the "World Agriculture" course taught by Peter Rogers, will present their findings from research into the operations of Nezinscott Farm, Turner; Avalon Farm, North Yarmouth; and Bell Farms, Auburn

"So Many Ways to Where" was choreographed by Sara Miller, a senior from Farmington, to music by Ani DiFranco. "Transport" was choreographed by Devon Fitchett, a senior from Woburn, Mass., to music by Shamou, a percussionist born in Iran, living in Portland and a veteran of collaborations with such dance companies as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Mark Morris Dance Grou

Bates College running back Sean Atkins '03 (New York, N.Y.) has been selected to play for the American Football Coaches Association's Division III all-star team that will represent the United States against the Mexican National Team in the 2002 Aztec Bowl on December 14 in Torreon, Mexico.

Toots and the Maytals, the pioneering reggae band known for the dance-floor classic "Pressure Drop," come to Bates College for a benefit concert

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has awarded Rebecca J. Sommer, assistant professor of biology at Bates College, a grant of $132,883 to investigate the impact of dioxin on early cardiac development.

With student performances of music and drama and a recital by Maine's best-known pianist in store, the days before Thanksgiving have a lot to offer in the arts at Bates College.

Ben Ayers, a 1999 Bates College graduate and founder of an organization that supports expeditionary porters in Nepal, brings a presentation about Porters' Progress to Bates

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has awarded Rebecca J. Sommer, assistant professor of biology at Bates College, a grant of $132,883 to investigate the impact of dioxin on early cardiac development

The Bates College theater department presents a production of <I>Lady Windermere's Fan,</I> the comedy that made Oscar Wilde the toast of London, in the Gannett Theater at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1, 2, 8 and 9, and 2 p.m. Nov. 3 and 10. Admission is $6 ($3 for Bates faculty and staff, senior citizens, and non-Bates students). The theater is in Pettigrew Hall, Andrews Road, on the Bates campus.

A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas" (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999), and professor of art, design and women's studies at Purdue University, discusses contemporary female Native American artists

Richard Russo, the Camden author who won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his novel "Empire Falls," reads from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue, Bates College.

Marcus J. Borg, best-selling author and Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture, Oregon University, will give a presentation titled "The Bible: Instrument of Oppression or Liberation?" at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue, at Bates College

Rosemary Haughton and Nancy Schwoyer will describe the creation of Wellspring House, a shelter, center for social justice and land-trust enterprise a lecture titled "Change and Exchange

A high spot is an often lively, 45-minute question-and-answer session with current Bates students. "The audience is encouraged to find out what life is like here on campus and what the academic atmosphere is," says Harrison

About 250 area residents (a mix of immigrants and non-immigrants) heard a condensed history of immigrant experiences in Lewiston, and insights into the experiences of their new Somali neighbors, at a community dinner hosted Oct. 16 by Bates College, the University of Southern Maine Lewiston-Auburn College and the University of Maine-Augusta .

The value of a college education in terms of increased lifetime income is well understood, but less well understood is its social and civic value, Elaine Tuttle Hansen told more than 1,400 guests Saturday during her inauguration as the seventh president of Bates College and its first woman president.

Performances by two student ensembles and two concerts featuring the dean of Maine pianists bring Bates College musical offerings to a crescendo in November

For journalists covering arts and entertainment, the emphasis in November's public arts and entertainment events at Bates College is on stage

A major exhibition of Maine landscapes by Joel Babb, whose realist approach has made him a favorite with collectors all over the Northeast, is featured at the Bates College Museum of Art through Dec. 29.

In an appearance sponsored by the Bates Democrats, the memory of Edmund S. Muskie '36 -- Maine governor, U.S. senator and secretary of state -- will be honored in a talk by U.S. Rep. John Baldacci at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue. The talk is open to the public at no charge.

The play's the thing when it comes to November's public arts and entertainment events at Bates College. Two productions are planned by the college's theater program (as well as two by the dance program), and there are three by the student theatrical troupe, the Robinson Players.

A group of journalists, professors and activists present a panel discussion titled "War, What Is It Good For? Should the United States Invade Iraq," to be followed by a question-and-answer period, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College. The public is invited to attend this event, sponsored by the Bates Democrats, free of charge.

Bates College celebrates the presidential inauguration of Elaine Tuttle Hansen at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, 2002 in the Margaret Hopkins Merrill Gymnasium. The installation ceremony and several other events and exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Sheikh traveled in December 2001 to a refugee camp on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan to "bear witness to the suffering of Afghani women."

The Bates College theater department presents a production of "Lady Windermere's Fan," the comedy that made Oscar Wilde the toast of London, in the Gannett Theater

Georgia Benkart, professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, visits Bates College to give the annual Sampson Lecture

In an appearance sponsored by the Bates Democrats, U.S. Rep. John Baldacci pays tribute to the late Edmund S. Muskie, who served as Maine governor, U.S. senator and secretary of state

The Robinson Players, the independent student theater group at Bates College, presents six performances of David Ives' play "The Red Address"

Parker J. Palmer, named one of the 30 "most influential senior leaders" in a national survey of faculty and staff in higher education, gives a talk titled "Leading From Within: Reflections on Leadership, Community and the Inner Life"

A group of journalists, professors and activists present a panel discussion titled "War, What Is It Good For? Should the United States Invade Iraq," to be followed by a question-and-answer period

Diverse in the stylistic details but united in their expressive power, three groups playing traditional music of southern Europe perform at the Bates College Chapel

Challis J. E. Kinnucan, a Bates College senior from London, Ontario, has been awarded a $4,000 scholarship grant from the American Mathematical Society's Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky Fund.

A major exhibition of Maine landscapes by Joel Babb, whose realist approach has made him a favorite with collectors all over the Northeast, opens at the Bates College Museum of Art

An Academy Award-nominated documentary film that features Israeli and Palestinian children, will be shown at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, in Room 204 of Pettengill Hall, Bates College

John McClendon, an associate professor in the Bates College programs in African American and American cultural studies, opens the college's T.G.I.F lecture series at 4:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, in the Edmund S. Muskies Archives on Campus Avenue. The public is invited to lectures in the series free of charge. Refreshments will be available.

At Bates College, Sept. 11 begins with a Slow Walk for Peace, the contemplative ascent of a wooded hill near campus. Bells signal a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. and a Memorial Gathering in the College Chapel is planned for evening. Interpretive events later in the month include a faculty panel discussion and, on Sept. 25, the lecture "Is Islam the Enemy?" by The Nation columnist Christopher Hitchens.

Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow in the foreign policy studies program at the Brookings Institution, offers a review of the year's progress in the U.S. war against terrorism at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives at Bates College, on Campus Avenue. The public is welcome to attend the lecture free of charge.

Exhibiting at the Bates College Museum of Art through Oct. 16 are Will Richard, a nature photographer from Georgetown, Maine, and Grace Knowlton, a nationally known artist whose works at Bates are inspired by earthen mounds. The Knowlton exhibit in the museum's upper gallery, titled "Dirt Piles," opens at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, with an artist's lecture and opening reception. The museum, located at 75 Russell St., welcomes the public at no charge.

The Bates College Modern Dance Company opens its 2002-03 season with "Suite Movement," a program of dances by student and guest choreographers, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, and 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall, Andrews Road. Admission is free of charge, but seating is limited, so early arrival is suggested.

Two specialists in interpreting the natural landscape will discuss their impressions of lands protected by the Androscoggin Land Trust in 7 p.m. presentations on Saturday, Oct. 12, and Sunday, Oct. 13, at Bates College. The Saturday talk is in Chase Hall Lounge, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, and Sunday's event is in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road. The talks by plant ecologists Tom Wessels and Mitchell Thomashow, both of Antioch New England Graduate School, are open to the public at no charge.

Two expressive but seldom-heard compositions - one by Portland composer Elliott Cherry and the other Rachmaninoff's ultra-romantic Sonata in G Minor - headline a Bates College concert by cellist Kathleen Foster and pianist Martin Perry at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street. Admission is free.

Together again after a five-year hiatus, Arizona alternative-pop favorites the Gin Blossoms are heading to Bates College for a concert at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building ("Gray Cage"), Central Avenue.

Brackette F. Williams, an anthropologist, author and 1997 recipient of the MacArthur "genius" grant, offers a lecture exploring the role of religion in the American system of capital punishment at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, in Chase Hall Lounge, Bates College, Campus Avenue. The lecture, titled "Killing in My Name, Poison in Their Veins: Religious Struggle and the Death Penalty," is open to the public at no charge.

Toru "Tiger" Okoshi, one of the region's top jazz trumpeters, brings his band to Maine for the second entry in the 2002-03 Bates College Concert Series, taking place at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street. Admission is $7/$5.

In cooperation with the cities of Lewiston and Auburn, the Bates College Leadership Academy premieres "Une Fete des Artes," a community arts festival taking place along the Androscoggin River from 10 a.m. to sunset Saturday, Sept. 28. This showcase for local performers and visual artists will be held at Railroad Park, Lewiston, and across the footbridge in Auburn at Rodney Bonney Memorial Park and Auburn Festival Plaza. Admission is free.

Pianist Jon Nakamatsu, the only American since 1981 to win the gold medal in the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, opens the Bates College Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street. Admission to the concert is $7 for the general public and $5 for children, senior citizens and full-time students of all ages.

The Midcoast Woodwind Quintet, composed of the principal woodwind players of the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, performs a program of mostly 20th-century music at Bates College at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, in the college's Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street. Admission is free.

Iconoclastic journalist Christopher Hitchens, known for his trenchantly witty critiques of hypocrisy and entrenched political power, presents a lecture titled "Is Islam the Enemy?" in Bates College's Pettengill Hall at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25. The public is invited to attend free of charge the talk, sponsored by the psychology department as part of a series of events connected to the observance of the one-year anniversary of Sept. 11.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Dennis will read from his work at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, in Chase Hall Lounge on Campus Avenue, Bates College. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

Members of the Greene-based Maine Center for Justice, Ecology and Democracy (JED) present "In Solidarity with the No Longer and the Not Yet: Stories of Collective Resistance, Struggle and Creation" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, at Bates College. The public is invited to attend this discussion free of charge. The JED talk opens a series of lectures, "Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2002-03," sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.

An exhibition of drawings and paintings encompassing themes of war and peace by artist and activist Betty LaDuke opens at the Bates College Chapel on Monday, Sept. 23. The exhibit runs through Nov. 15 and is open to the public free of charge. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.

Populist historian and activist Howard Zinn discusses "The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement in the Age of Terrorism" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14, in the Bates College Chapel. The public is invited to attend his talk, sponsored by the Bates Democrats, free of charge. Donations in the form of canned goods or clothing for the Good Shepherd Food Bank will be accepted, and a reception will follow in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue.

Harry Gray, Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute of Technology at the California Institute of Technology, will deliver science lectures at 4 p.m. and at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, at Bates College. The public is invited to attend the inaugural George S. Hammond '43 H'73 Eminent Scientist Lecture event, and admission is free.

A group of Bates students and faculty will present a panel discussion titled "Perspectives on Globalization," to be followed by a question-and-answer period, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College. The public is invited to attend this event, sponsored by the Bates Democrats, the College Republicans, the Bates Libertarians and the campus Anti-Sweatshop Coalition, free of charge.

Three panelists will present a discussion titled "Perspectives on the Middle East Conflict," followed by a question-and-answer period, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Russell Street, Bates College. The public is invited to attend this event, sponsored by Bates Hillel and cosponsored by the Bates Democrats, free of charge.

Nobel Prize laureate and econometrician Lawrence R. Klein will spend a week in residence at Bates College, where he will deliver two public presentations about his research at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30, and at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2. The public is invited to attend these talks, in the Keck Classroom (G52) of Pettengill Hall, free of charge.

At a time when U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern fossil fuels has assumed ominous new overtones, a Sept. 25 lecture at Bates College holds out hope for a virtually unlimited new source of energy. In the second of two lectures that day inaugurating an "eminent scientist" series at Bates, National Medal of Science recipient Harry Gray will discuss recent progress on attempts to split water cost-effectively into hydrogen and oxygen gases, which would make hydrogen gas a feasible substitute for fossil fuels as our major energy source.

On the sunny and dreadful Tuesday that was Sept. 11, 2001, an afternoon Chapel service drew nearly 1,000 members of a Bates College community whose shock and dismay mirrored sentiments around the nation and the world. On the sunny Wednesday that was Sept. 11, 2002, the campus response to that aching memory again reflected the national mood, balanced somewhere between "life goes on" and "things will never be the same."

Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow in the foreign policy studies program at the Brookings Institution, told an audience at Bates College on Sept. 19 that war with Iraq might be the only way to forestall Saddam Hussein's employment of weapons of mass destruction. But O'Hanlon also said during a Great Falls Forum event that such a war would likely be bloodier than the 1991 Gulf War and could lead to a prolonged and costly U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Exhibiting at the Bates College Museum of Art through Oct. 16 are Will Richard, a nature photographer from Georgetown, Maine, and Grace Knowlton, a nationally known artist whose works at Bates are inspired by earthen mounds.

On Sept. 4, former U.S. Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders opened the 148th academic year at Bates College with a challenge to the Class of 2006. In her second visit to Bates this year, Elders told a convocation gathering of about 1,000 students, staff and faculty that the students now starting here must summon the courage and the will to become transformational leaders for a new century fraught with pressing difficulties.

As some 1,700 students head back to campus, Bates College is gearing up for an autumn packed with public events in the arts and humanities. These offerings will interest your readers and provide opportunities for fresh, behind-the-scenes coverage.

Beginning with a performance by Jon Nakamatsu, the only American gold medalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition since 1981, the 2002-2003 Bates College Concert Series is a connoisseur's choice of jazz and classical players. Nakamatsu's concert, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, opens a series that includes jazz trumpeter Tiger Okoshi, jazz guitarist Pat Martino and such classical artists as Maine pianists Frank Glazer and Yuri Funahashi, violinist Curtis Macomber and the renowned Brentano String Quartet.

3.6 applications for every first-year studentThere were 3.6 applications for every first-year student admitted to the Class of 2006, with 419 new first-year students expected when fall semester starts Sept. 4. Bates received more than 4,000 applications for the third year in a row. In all, 1,742 active degree-seeking students will be enrolled on campus or in Bates-sponsored off-campus programs in fall 2002.

On August's last Wednesday, a handwritten cloth banner hangs above the entrance to a big brick 1960s-era residence hall at Bates College. In bold purple, green and orange on the white cloth, veteran Bates students offer a welcome greeting to their first-year counterparts: "We're psyched you're here."

Former U.S. Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders will officially open the 148th academic year at Bates College with the convocation address "Leadership and Responsibility in the 21st Century: What Will Your Role Be?" at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, on the college's main quadrangle. The rain site will be the Alumni Gymnasium.

Bates College has added some new resources to its international scholarships and Asian studies programs, thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Tanaka Memorial Foundation of Japan.

Former U.S. Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders will officially open the 148th academic year at Bates College with the convocation address "Leadership and Responsibility in the 21st Century: What Will Your Role Be?" at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, on the college's main quadrangle. The rain site will be the Alumni Gymnasium.

Bates College and its community-development partner LA Excels have announced three summer community research fellowships. The fellowships are the second phase of a two-year, $80,000 award from The Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education and the Council of Independent Colleges that gives students interdisciplinary opportunities to research issues important to the Lewiston-Auburn community.

Elaine Tuttle Hansen, former provost and professor of English at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, assumed office July 1 as the college's seventh president since its founding in 1855.

The Bates Dance Festival, northern New England's leading contemporary dance producing and training program, presents its 20th anniversary season, July 20 through Aug. 17, 2002.

Bates College has announced the creation of a new professorship in honor of Thomas Sowell, the economist, writer and commentator called America's "most valuable public intellectual" for his challenge to orthodox thought across the spectrum of society.

Bates College has announced the creation of a new professorship in honor of Thomas Sowell, the economist, writer and commentator called America's "most valuable public intellectual" for his challenge to orthodox thought across the spectrum of society.

Gretchen Shorter Davis of Portland, Maine, and Henry J. Keigwin of South Dartmouth, Mass., have been elected to the college’s Board of Overseers by the alumni of Bates College; Michael W. Bonney of Sudbury, Mass., and David L. Foster of New York City have been appointed by college trustees to serve on the Board of Overseers, Bates College President Donald W. Harward announced.

The Bates College Department of Economics ranks number one in terms of total citations per capita and third overall among 50 top liberal arts colleges studied.

Thirteen Bates College students have been selectedThirteen Bates College students have been selected for summer internships through the Ladd Internship Program, which provides unique opportunities for career exploration at businesses and institutions ranging from the Ah Haa School for the Arts to Thieme Medical Publishers.

Bates College presented awards to distinguished alumni Saturday at the college's Reunion Weekend 2002, held this year from June 6 to 9. The Rev. Arthur E. Higgins, class of 1943, received Bates' highest honor, the Benjamin Elijah Mays Award. Paula M. Colahan, class of 1987, received the Distinguished Young Alumni Service Award. Norman E. Brackett, class of 1952, received the Alumni Community Service Award, and David O. Boone and Carol Huntington Boone, classes of 1962 and 1963 respectively, received the Helen A. Papaioanou '49 Distinguished Alumni Service Award.

An exhibit of some three dozen works by Carl Sprinchorn, renowned for the art he made while exploring the Maine wilderness over four decades, opens at the Bates College Museum of Art with a reception at 7 p.m. Friday, June 7. The exhibit runs through Aug. 23. Admission to the museum, located in the Olin Arts Center on Russell Street, is open to the public free of charge.

Frank Glazer, a resident artist at Bates College since 1980 and arguably Maine's best-known pianist, is joined by his former student Duncan Cumming for an evening of music by Brahms, Dvorák and others at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, June 6, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street. The concert is free and open to the public.

Known for both his own jazz projects and his work as sideman in myriad genres, bassist Stephan Crump and his quintet perform at Bates College at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street. The public is invited to this concert sponsored by the Edith C. and Raymond L. Kendall '19 Music Fund. Admission is free.

Wake the Neighbors, a Lewiston band known for its take on Celtic and world musics, performs a CD release concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 18, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College, Russell Street, Lewiston. Admission to this concert sponsored by the Freewill Folk Society is $5.

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

Plaques, medals and more than $1,200 will be awarded for the projects deemed the best at the third annual Lewiston High School Science Fair held Thursday, May 9th. Award-winning students will be presented at the high school's "Night of Excellence" on June 3.

The Klezmaniacs, an East Coast band with extensive performing experience in the region of Europe where klezmer music was born, plays at Bates College at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 18, in Chase Hall, Campus Avenue. The public is invited at no charge.

African-Ecuadorian writer and environmentalist Juan Monaño will give a talk titled "Intercultural Adventure: Black Ecuadorians Have a Point of View" at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, in Room G52 of Pettengill Hall at Bates College. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

Four area residents will receive bachelor's degrees during Bates College's 136th commencement exercises Monday, May 27, in an outdoor ceremony on the main campus quadrangle. Stephen Weinberg, noted physicist and Nobel laureate, will receive an honorary doctor of science degree and deliver the commencement address. In his last commencement before retiring, Donald W. Harward, president of Bates College, will confer bachelor's degrees on approximately 420 seniors at 10 a.m. in an outdoor ceremony in front of Coram Library. In the event of rain, graduation exercises will be held in the nearby Margaret Hopkins Merrill Gymnasium.

Harris Wofford, chairman of America's Promise, will be the keynote speaker at the dedication of the Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Center for Community Partnerships at 1:30 p.m. Friday May 24 on the historic Bates College Quad in front of Coram Hall. In the event of rain, the dedication ceremony will be moved to Merrill Gymnasium.

"I want my students to discover that in learning math, as in juggling, it is important to accept our mistakes, to pick up the pieces and to start over again until we get it right," says David Haines, professor of mathematics at Bates College. Haines also encourages his students to juggle during class hours.

Director of Athletics Suzanne R. Coffey will be presented with the Institute of International Sport's 2002 Keaney Award on June 1.

The College was informed Tuesday night that a Sabattus resident has been charged with the gross sexual assault of a Bates student in Pettengill Hall April 5.

Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg asked Bates College's graduating class Monday to join him as "allies in a movement that is about 300 years old - the movement known as the Enlightenment."

Bates College junior Justin Easter of Jay, Maine, has produced the College's second national champion in as many days, winning the 3,000-meter steeplechase today at the NCAA Division III track and field championships at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. Senior hammer thrower Jaime Sawler of Stratham, N.H., won his second career national championship on Thursday, capturing the hammer throw.

A $1.7 million gift to endow the new Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Center for Community Partnerships was announced Friday in a dedication ceremony on the Bates College Quad.

Bates College senior Jenny Blau of Los Greenbrae, Calif., has been chosen as a recipient of the 2002 national Campus Compact Howard R. Swearer Humanitarian Award in recognition of her work in providing quality medical care for Latinos in Lewiston.

Bates Dean of Admissions Wylie Mitchell appeared on WNYC radio's issue-oriented talk program "On The Line." The topic of the program was "Feeling Testy: Are Standardized Tests Fair?" Guests Mitchell and Rebecca Zwick of the University of California, Santa Barbara discussed the importance of SATs in higher education.

Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg, recognized internationally as one of the world's most profound thinkers and as a scientist who bridges the literacy gap for general audiences, will receive an honorary doctor of science degree and speak at the 136th commencement at Bates College.

Four Bates College students 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.

Two environmental studies majors at Bates College have received Philip J. Otis Fellowships to support research projects that will promote greater understanding of environmental issues and the connection between the environment and spirituality.

Claudia Aburto Guzman, assistant professor of Spanish, and Carole Taylor, professor of English.Two members of the Bates College humanities faculty have received this year's Ruth M. and Robert H. Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching. The recipients are Claudia Aburto Guzman, assistant professor of Spanish, and Carole Taylor, professor of English.

Bates alumnus John Carrafa, Class of 1976, was nominated May 6 for two Tony Awards for Best Choreography for "Urinetown, The Musical" and "Into The Woods."

The Bates College student theater group present the Maine radio premiere of Shakespeare's "King Lear" in a broadcast from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11, on the college radio station, WRBC (91.5 FM).

The Bates College women's novice eight boat will carry the top seed into the Avaya Collegiate Championship Regatta May 11-12 in New Jersey as a result of their victory at the New England Rowing Championships May 4.

Robert J. Barro, the Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will deliver the Thomas Sowell Professorship of Economics inaugural lecture, titled "Economics and Religion,"

Video clips of Bates alumni from NBC's Today ShowU.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. J.J. Cummings and his wife, Sara Hagan Cummings, both Bates '89, were interviewed March 26 and 27, 2002, when Cummings' aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, returned to Norfolk, Va., after an extended deployment off Afghanistan.

An open letter to students from President Donald W. Harward, Dean of Students F. Celeste Branham, and Director of Security and Campus Safety Larry Johnson

Bates College invites residents of Lewiston and Auburn to "Affirming Our Community," an Earth Day celebration starting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building.

LEWISTON, Maine — Laurie Geltman, a Boston-based singer, songwriter and guitarist, has joined the slate of Maine and nationally known performers in the WRBC Roots Music Festival at Bates College, taking place from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, at Keigwin Amphitheater, adjacent to the Olin Arts Center on Russell Street. The festival is free and open to the public. (The rain site is the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building, on the Bates campus at Central Avenue.)

LEWISTON, Maine — The third annual Lewiston High School Science Fair takes place in the high school gymnasium at 156 East Ave. from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9. Presented in partnership with the Bates College Center for Service-Learning, the fair features nearly 450 projects created during the school year by students in grades 9 through 12.

LEWISTON, Maine — Next month, the Bates College student theater group and the campus radio station present the Maine radio premiere of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy: "King Lear."

WRBC Roots Music Festival – The Chicago blues band Studebaker John & The Hawks headlines an afternoon of roots music at Bates College. Also featured: Boston singer-songwriter Laurie Geltman and, all from Maine, Diesel Doug & the Long Haul Truckers, King Memphis, the bluegrass band Chairback Gap, and the duo Sara Cox and Nat Schrock. Noon-6 p.m. Saturday, May 11, Keigwin Amphitheater (Olin Arts Center), Russell Street, Lewiston (Rain site: Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building, Central Avenue). FREE. 207-777-7915.

WRBC Roots Music Festival – The Chicago blues band Studebaker John & The Hawks headlines an afternoon of roots music at Bates College. Also featured: Diesel Doug & the Long Haul Truckers, King Memphis, the bluegrass band Chairback Gap, Sara Cox and Nat Schrock. Noon-6 p.m. Saturday, May 11, Keigwin Amphitheater (Olin Arts Center), Russell Street, Lewiston (Rain site: Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building, Central Avenue). FREE. 207-777-7915.

LEWISTON, Maine — Pianist and composer Vicente López performs a program largely based on the traditional music of his native Ecuador in a concert at 8 p.m. Friday, May 3, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College, Russell Street. The concert is free and open to the public.

EWISTON, Maine — The Bates College Juggling Club invites juggling enthusiasts to drop everything and come to campus for the first annual Bates College Juggling Festival, taking place at the college's Alumni Gymnasium from noon to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, May 4. The festival is open to the public at no charge.

Schubertiade – Pianist Frank Glazer and guests including soprano Christina Astrachan explore melodic themes that appear in both the vocal and instrumental music of Schubert. 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Bates College, Russell Street, Lewiston. FREE. 207-786-6135.

Erica Brown & Bluegrass Connection – At age 18, Lewiston resident Brown is outgrowing the wunderkind label and establishing herself as an accomplished bluegrass fiddler. Her band includes her younger brother Daniel on mandolin. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27, Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Bates College, Russell Street, Lewiston. $5 donation. 207-784-7540.

LEWISTON, Maine — The Annual Senior Exhibition, a popular show of work by graduating art majors, is complemented by highlights from the permanent collection at the Bates College Museum of Art this month and next. The senior exhibition runs through May 26 and "Collection Highlights" through Aug. 23.

King of the Woods – The Bates College Museum of Art offers a major exhibit: "Carl Sprinchorn: King of the Woods," curated by Gail Scott and including 36 works by a painter known for intense, evocative images of Maine wilderness (Bates College, Russell Street, Lewiston. FREE. 207-786-6158.

LEWISTON, Maine — Michael Philip Manheim, a photographer living in Massachusetts, presents his distinctive depictions of Bates Dance Festival performers in an exhibit at the Bates College Museum of Art through Aug. 23. Manheim will discuss his work in a gallery talk from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6. The museum is open to the public free of charge.

EVENT LISTING: Economics Lecture -- Robert J. Barro, the Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University, delivers the Thomas Sowell Professorship of Economics inaugural lecture, titled "Economics and Religion," at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 2. Keck Classroom, Pettengill Hall, Bates College. Reception follows. FREE. 207-786-6330.

Four individuals and one relay team won New England Small College Athletic Conference crowns as Bates hosted its first NESCAC track and field championships on April 27-28.

LEWISTON, Maine -- Bates College presents "Films of Muslim Life," a festival of award-winning films set in Iran and Senegal, at 7:30 Wednesdays p.m. from May 1 through May 22 in Room 104 in the Olin Arts Center, Russell Street.

An updates page has been created to keep the Bates community informed of developments concerning a sexual assault in Pettengill Hall April 5, and to review all security services that are available.

Holli M. Cavender, a senior at Bates College from Austin, Texas, has received a Fulbright Student award for study in Germany.

Andrea J. Brewer, a Bates College junior from Traverse City, Mich., has been awarded a $32,000 scholarship from the Beinecke Scholarship program.

A kayak paddle perches on a mound of new wetsuits in geologist Dyk Eusden's office in Carnegie Science Hall. The paddle, just recently returned by a geology colleague who had borrowed it, is the least of Eusden's concerns this late April morning.

For the first time, Bates College will host the New England Small College Athletic Conference outdoor track and field championships. The Bobcats opened a new facility earlier this year, the Russell Street Track.

On Sunday, April 7, the Bates College department of athletics held its first awards banquet. Seven awards were presented in front of the assembled population of student-athletes, with master of ceremonies Dan Doyle '72 serving as host.

The first annual Mount David Summit will celebrate the strong intellectual life of the college.

Music lovers have the chance to enjoy two distinctly different musical traditions at Bates College on Friday, April 5.

James Shulman, co-author of a groundbreaking examination of college sports' impact on higher education, discusses his findings at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, Bates College.

Frank Glazer, a resident artist at Bates College since 1980 and arguably Maine's best-known pianist, plays Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin at 7 p.m. Friday, April 5, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates, on Russell Street. The concert is free and open to the public.

Featuring a music master from Java and an American expert in gamelan music, the Bates College Javanese Gamelan Ensemble performs traditional Indonesian music at 4 p.m. Friday, April 5, in the Perry Atrium of Pettengill Hall at Bates. The concert is free and open to the public.

A historian from Colby College and two members of a farm labor coalition formed in response to harsh conditions at the former DeCoster Egg Farm offer lectures on environmental issues at Bates College on Wednesday, March 20, and Thursday, March 21. The lectures are free and open to the public.

Called "the world's ambassador to religions everywhere, a man of passionate intellect and immense heart" by theologian Thomas Moore, Huston Smith will discuss "Religion's Role in an Acutely Troubling Era" at 7 p.m. Monday, March 18, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue, at Bates College. The public is invited to attend the annual Bertha May Bell Andrews Memorial Lecture in Ethics and Education free of charge.

The Bates College Modern Dance Company, under the artistic direction of Marcy Plavin, presents "Idle Dreams," a concert showcasing the talents of students, faculty and guest choreographer Tere O'Connor at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 21; at 8 p.m. Friday, March 22; at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 23; and at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 24 in Schaeffer Theatre on College Street. The public is invited to attend free of charge with no reservations accepted. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information about the performances, call the Schaeffer Theatre Box Office at 207-786-6161. Please note that the program Thursday and Saturday will vary from the program on Friday and Sunday.

Thomas J. Wenzel, a resident of Auburn and a chemistry professor at Bates College, is one of two educators nationally to receive a 2002 CUR Fellows Award from the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR).

Diana Shaghayegh Sepehri, a Bates College senior born in Iran and now a resident of Sacramento, Calif., has received one of 60 prestigious research fellowships awarded this month by the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program.

"I'm going to the gym now and work off some aggression," said Chris Mabbett '02, one of 47 ambitious Bates seniors to submit their senior honors theses last Monday.

Mark Mathabane, whose best-selling book "Kaffir Boy" detailed his growing up black in apartheid-era South Africa, speaks at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in the Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue. The event, sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College, is free and open to the public.

Longtime Maine grower and former Atlantic Monthly art director Terry Silber talks about perennial garden design at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in the Muskie Archives, Bates College, on Campus Avenue.

Will Durst, a political comedian likened to Mort Sahl, Hunter Thompson and Dick Gregory, performs at Bates College at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 30, in Skelton Lounge, on the second floor of Chase Hall, Campus Avenue. David Brusie, a musician and a senior at Bates, opens the performance, which is free and open to the public.

Senior diver Andrew Hastings is making a familiar trip this weekend when he competes in the NCAA Division III swimming and diving championships.

Performances at Bates College this weekend and early next week span some 260 years, from the Baroque era to the cutting edge of contemporary music. All free and open to the public, the performances include two performances of a Handel oratorio and two events featuring the avant-garde quartet Lake Affect.

A historian from Colby College and two members of a farm labor coalition formed in response to harsh conditions at the former DeCoster Egg Farm offer lectures on environmental issues at Bates College on Wednesday, March 20, and Thursday, March 21. The lectures are free and open to the public.

The Bates Democrats help launch the campaign season with a debate among the six Democratic candidates for Maine's 2nd District congressional seat, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, in the Muskie Archives at Bates College, Campus Avenue. The event is free and open to the public.

We continue to express our grief. We have received hundreds of messages of condolence from within the College, from alumni, parents and friends, and from members of the Lewiston and Auburn community -- neighbors, City officials, school children, and scores of citizens.

Bates College senior Jaime Sawler became the 10th man in school history to win a national championship in track and field when he captured the 35-pound weight throw at the NCAA Division III championships at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio.

Performances by student musicians at Bates College hit a crescendo in late March. All in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, on Russell Street, these performances by Bates ensembles and individual students are free and the public is welcome.

The singers who describe themselves as "America's favorite dragapella beautyshop quartet" perform at Bates College at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 17, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, on Russell Street. Sponsored by OUTfront, a campus advocacy and support group for issues of gender and sexuality, the concert is free and open to the public.

Bates College has won a $400,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation to expand and enrich its Asian studies program, announced Jill N. Reich, dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs. The four-year grant will fund faculty research, the creation of new courses, travel for faculty and students, and the acquisition of library and technology resources.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Colby, Bates and Bowdoin colleges a $490,000 grant to support study-abroad programs. The grant will support the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin (CBB) Off-Campus Study Consortium for the next three years.

In a concert appropriate for the Easter season, the Bates College Choir performs the sections of Handel's oratorio "Messiah" dealing with Christ's crucifixion and resurrection at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 16, and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 17, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates, on Russell Street. The concert is free and open to the public.

Lake Affect, an avant-garde ensemble exploring the merging of poetry and pure sound, holds two events that are free and open to the public during its residency at Bates College next month. The quartet offers a lecture-demonstration at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 17, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, on Russell Street. It performs in concert at 8 p.m. Monday, March 18, in the college chapel, on College Street.

Bates College students perform Eve Ensler's hit play, "The Vagina Monologues," at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Bates College, Russell Street, Lewiston. The public is invited and donations will be gratefully accepted, with proceeds to support a local charity.

Students from Lewiston Middle School exhibit their artworks in a variety of media in an annual exhibit at the Bates College Museum of Art. The exhibit opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 7, and runs through March 24 at the museum, located in the Olin Arts Center at Bates, on Russell Street. Admission is free and open to the public.

Trung Trong Huynh, a Portland resident and a senior at Bates College, is one of three students named to receive the Maine Campus Compact's 2002 Student Heart and Soul Award for outstanding contributions in community service and service-learning.

Kalee Kreider, manager of a national campaign to raise awareness about global climate change, assesses the effort to forestall global warming in a lecture at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives on Campus Avenue, Lewiston. The event, the annual Muskie Environmental Lecture, is open to the public at no charge.

Dean B. Bennett, an expert on Maine's natural history, discusses the history of the legendary Allagash Wilderness Waterway and current pressures to alter its wilderness character in a slide lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives on Campus Avenue. This Bates College event is open to the public free of charge.

Beth Wiemann, a clarinetist and award-winning composer, performs and discusses her music at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 7, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at Bates College. The presentation is open to the public at no charge.

The scientific creative process comes alive in a one-woman performance at Bates College this month. An actor-dancer from Massachusetts, Sharon Wyrrick performs her acclaimed portrayal of a pioneering woman geneticist in "The Search for Barbara McClintock" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street, Lewiston. The public is invited at no cost to this event sponsored by the Society for Women in Math and Science (SWIMS), the Women and Scientific Literacy Project and Sigma Xi, an international non-profit research society.

In an event of statewide significance, Bates College presents the president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Nadine Strossen, in a speech at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in the Bates College Chapel, College Street, Lewiston.

Martha Crenshaw, a nationally recognized expert in the psychology of terrorism, will discuss the issue at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, in Room 204 of the Carnegie Science Building at Bates College, Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

Gulnara Abikeyeva, a Kazakh film critic and Fulbright Scholar, will introduce the award-winning movie "Beshkempir" ("Adopted Son") by director Aktan Abdykalykov at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, in Room G52 (the Keck Classroom) of Pettengill Hall, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the 82-minute screening, followed by a discussion led by Abikeyeva, free of charge. Refreshments will be served.

The Office of the Bates College Chaplain is seeking nominations for the two recipients of the 2002 William Stringfellow Award of Peace and Justice in memory of William Stringfellow, Bates Class of 1949. All letters of nomination are due Monday, March 4, and can be addressed to The Office of the College Chaplain, 161 Wood Street, Lewiston, Maine, 04240.

Jacqueline Landry, Catholic chaplain at Harvard University, will present a talk titled "The Path is Made by Walking: A Catholic Feminist's Journey as a Change Agent" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, at Bates College. Part of the series "Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2001-02," sponsored by the chaplain's office, the talk is open to the public free of charge.

In an examination of how children's literature transmits stereotypes, Bates College will present a series of talks, accompanied by three one-act plays, in a symposium titled "What is Children's Literature?" from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, March 1, and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 2. The public is invited to attend the sessions, which include breaks for discussion and meals, free of charge. For more information about the event, call 207-786-8212.

New York-based poet, performance artist and activist Jayne Cortez will read from her work at Bates College in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

Fiction writer Christina Chiu, Bates College class of 1991, will read from her work at Bates in the Benjamin Mays Center at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

In an event of statewide significance, Bates College presents the president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Nadine Strossen, in a speech at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in the Bates College Chapel, College Street, Lewiston. The event is free and open to the public.

Bates College is looking to Maine teachers and school administrators, as well as the college's own students and faculty, to propose initiatives designed to improve education in mathematics and the sciences.

A member of the Bates College art faculty whose work has received prominent exhibitions in America and Europe, Robert Feintuch discusses his paintings at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in Room 104, Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Russell Street, Lewiston. The talk, sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art, is free and open to the public.

On March 1 and 2, Bates College hosts the second annual CBB Diversity Conference, a program of workshops, lectures and performances organized by the students of Colby, Bates and Bowdoin colleges. Titled "In Our Backyard: Embracing Diversity in Our Communities," the event is free and open to the public.

Trung Trong Huynh, a Portland resident and a senior at Bates College, is one of three students named to receive the Maine Campus Compact's 2002 Student Heart and Soul Award for outstanding contributions in community service and service-learning.

The Bates College women's basketball team has advanced to the semifinals of the New England Small College Athletic Conference tournament. The Bobcats will face Middlebury Saturday, Feb. 23, at 4 p.m. at Bowdoin College.

The scientific creative process comes alive in a one-woman performance at Bates College this month. An actor-dancer from Massachusetts, Sharon Wyrrick performs "The Search for Barbara McClintock," a multimedia piece about a pioneering woman geneticist, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Russell Street, Lewiston.

Live actors share the stage with puppets from a variety of puppetry traditions in the Bates College production of Marguerite Duras' novel "The Sea Wall," in performances at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, March 7-9, and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 10, in the college's Gannett Theater.

New York-based poet, performance artist and activist Jayne Cortez will read from her work at Bates College in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27.

The Walter Slovenski Indoor Track at Bates College will showcase some of the nation's best track and field teams Feb. 15 and 16 when the Bobcats host the New England Division III men's track and field championships.

Kristin J. Smith, a chemistry major at Bates, is one of four undergraduate students nationwide to receive the American Chemical Society's I.M. Kolthoff Enrichment Award.

Love might be a many-splendored thing, but it's also darned hard work for men -- or so says the Brooks Quimby Debate Council, whose members will argue the topic "Resolved: women should bear the burden of dating" at 4 p.m. on Valentine's Day in the Keck Classroom of Pettengill Hall.

Novelist Carolyn Chute and the owners of an organic Maine farm are among the specialists working with Bates College students in two innovative programs that are engaging the campus with the world outside.

The newly endowed George L. Wigton Scholar Fund at Bates College will honor a Bates student who exemplifies the high standards of the College's long-time men's basketball, tennis and squash coach, Director of Athletics Suzanne Coffey announced today.

Reprising last year's production, a Bates student will direct 21 of her peers in Eve Ensler's hit play, "The Vagina Monologues," at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Bates College, Russell Street, Lewiston. The public is invited and donations will be gratefully accepted, with proceeds to support a local women's organization.

Robert Earl Keen, whose gritty musical tales of the down and out have made him an alt-country favorite, performs in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building at Bates College at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18. Guitarist-singer Willy Porter opens this concert sponsored by the Bates Activity Council. Tickets cost $12 and are available at Bull Moose Music stores in Maine and New Hampshire.

Poet Jaime "Shaggy" Flores, known for his work with the new generation of "Nuyorican Poets" (the term referring to a Puerto Rican living in New York or one who has lived in New York and returned to Puerto Rico), will give a poetry performance titled "Diaspora in My Art: Artistic Perspectives on Africa in the Americas" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center at Bates College. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

Rabbi Alice Dubinsky of Congregation Bet Ha'am in South Portland will present a talk titled "Holy Fragments: A Rabbi's Faith in a Broken World" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, at Bates College. Part of the series "Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2001-02," sponsored by the chaplain's office, the talk is open to the public free of charge.

LEWISTON, Maine -- Roxanne Quimby, co-founder and president of Burt's Bees, will discuss the role of women as entrepreneurs in marketing natural consumer products at 7 p.m. Monday, January 28, in Chase Hall Lounge at Bates College. The public is invited free of charge to the talk, part of the annual Bates Seminar Series in Entrepreneurship. An informal reception and refreshments will follow the presentation.

LEWISTON, Maine -- Auburn resident Elizabeth K. Sheppard is the new director of alumni relations at Bates College, Vice President for Alumni Affairs and External Relations William W. Hiss recently announced.

In Salem, Ore., on Jan. 22, Andrea Corradini '92 was one of approximately 11,500 runners in the Olympic Torch Relay who have conveyed the flame from Atlanta to Salt Lake City, where the Winter Games begin Feb. 8.

Novelist Debra Spark reads from her second and latest work, "The Ghost of Bridgetown," at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Benjamin Mays Center, on Russell Street at Bates College. The reading is free and open to the public.

Elaine Tuttle Hansen, provost and professor of English at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, was elected president of Bates College on Saturday, Jan. 26. She will assume office July 1 as the college's seventh president, and first woman president, since its founding in 1855.

Midway through the winter season, six Bates College student-athletes have qualified for the NCAA championships. Three represent the swimming and diving teams and three come from the track and field teams.

Robert Drinan, an ordained Jesuit priest, professor of law at Georgetown University and internationally recognized human rights advocate, will discuss the ethical and legal challenges facing the United States as it pursues national domestic security in a talk titled "America's War on Terrorism: Human Rights, Civil Rights and Homeland Security" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, in Chase Hall Lounge, Campus Avenue, at Bates College.

All of the 27 Bates College seniors and alumni who applied to graduate programs in the health professions in 2001 were accepted, according to a report by the college's medical studies committee.

Matthew Cote, associate professor of chemistry; Atsuko Hirai, Kazushige Hirasawa Professor of History; and John Rhodes, associate professor of mathematics, have been awarded Phillips Faculty Fellowships for the 2002-03 academic year, announced Donald W. Harward, president of Bates College.

Senior forward Drew Weymouth and junior goalkeeper Kim Martell were each named to the 2002 Verizon Academic All-District soccer teams on Thursday. Weymouth, a first-team selection will be placed on the ballot for All-America honors, while Martell was named to the second team.

James H. Cone, America's pre-eminent black theologian, is the keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College. Scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 21, in Alumni Gymnasium, Cone's address is part of a celebration of King's life and work that includes performances, workshops and a debate between Bates and Morehouse College. All events are open to the public free of charge.

Robert Earl Keen, whose gritty musical tales of the down and out have made him an alt-country favorite, performs in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building at Bates College at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18. Guitarist-singer Willy Porter opens this concert sponsored by the Bates Activity Council. Tickets cost $12 and are available at Bull Moose Music stores in Maine and New Hampshire.

The Bates College Modern Dance Company, under the artistic direction of Marcy Plavin, showcases the talents of students and a guest choreographer in concerts at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11; 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, in Schaeffer Theatre on College Street.

Timothy Leach, a 1999 graduate of Bates College, discusses his fact-finding tour of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, in the college's Chase Lounge, on Campus Avenue. The presentation is open to the public at no charge.