Bates College | 2000 Stories

December 2000: Victoria Wyeth to discuss Andrew Wyeth Exhibit at Bates Dec. 9 and 10; Bates student writing first-ever text-to-speech synthesis program for Nepali language
November 2000: Comedian Elayne Boosler to perform at Bates; Bates College to sponsor Maine Day Nov. 10; Leading environmental lawyer to speak at Bates Nov. 8; Noonday concerts continue at Bates; Bates College Orchestra to perform Nov. 12; Lecture on Maine Woods proposal at Bates Nov. 16; Bates College Choir and Orchestra to perform Dec. 1 and 2; Bates College continues series on ecology and politics of Maine forests Nov. 28 and Dec. 5; 11-29-00 BATES MODERN DANCE COMPANY TO PERFORM; Kalichstein–Laredo–Robinson Trio continues 2000–01 Bates College Concert Series; Bates music students to perform Dec. 5
October 2000: 10-01-00 CONCERT TO CELEBRATE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH; Andrew Wyeth's granddaughter organizes major exhibit of his work at Bates College Museum of Art; Environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill to speak at Bates; Bioethicist to speak at Bates College; Steve Grover Quartet to perform at Bates; Annual Kendall Concert features Portland String Quartet; Bates to hold panel discussion on forestry referendum; What the national publications are saying about Bates
September 2000: Bates College Receives Maine Development Foundation's Champion for Economic Growth Award; Episcopal priest begins 2000-01 Spiritual Journeys series at Bates; Mathematician to discuss code-braking at Bates; Cuban scholar to speak on issues of race at Bates College; English professor to discuss biculturalism and the creative process at Bates; Neuroscientist to discuss brain and the immune system at Bates
August 2000: Neuroscientist to discuss brain and the immune system at Bates; Jonathan Kozol to deliver convocation address at Bates; Jazz violinist Regina Carter opens 2000-01 Bates College Concert Series
July 2000: Lakeside concert series to be held at Bates; Education professor wins teaching award at Bates; Northfield student wins Fulbright Scholarship
Kari M. Jorgensen, formerly of Northfield, Minn., received a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in Turkey on the transition of women's roles in Islamic mysticism and Turkish politics.; Bates receives $1.3 million grant for science education; Four named Bates College trustees
June 2000: Virtuoso organist to perform Bates concert; Bates announces Community Humanities Seminars for Lewiston, South Paris high school students; Volpi wins inaugural Stanton Environmental Award; Wenzel receives National Science Foundation grant; Norman E. Ross, Treasurer Emeritus, Dies at 101
May 2000: 2000 Bates Dance Festival Calendar of Events July 22-Aug. 19; Archeologist to discuss excavating King William's War on the Maine frontier; Theater at Bates to stage outdoor performances of "Smoke on the Mountain"; Bates student wins fellowship to study in The Netherlands; "Colombia, According to the 'Color' of Your Viewpoint" to be discussed at Bates; Bates commencement slated for May 29; Tutu to speak; "Eloquent Objects: the Sense and Sensibilities of Still-Life Painting" to open at Bates College Museum of Art; Area students to graduate from Bates; TUTU CALLS FOR DEBT FORGIVENESS FOR POOREST COUNTRIES; Atlanta student named Phillips Student Fellow at Bates; Wilmington student named Phillips Student Fellow at Bates; Delmar student named Phillips Student Fellow at Bates; Woodbridge student named Phillips Student Fellow at Bates; East Granby student named Phillips Student Fellow at Bates; Lebanon student named Phillips Student Fellow at Bates; Bates student named Phillips Student Fellow at Bates; Whitefield student named Fulbright Teaching Assistant; Manchester student named Fulbright Teaching Assistant; Manchester student named Fulbright Teaching Assistant; Scarsdale student named Phillips Student Fellow at Bates; HARWARD RETIRING FROM BATES COLLEGE PRESIDENCY IN 2002
April 2000: Bates College celebrates millennium with concert; Bates Dining Services wins national environmental award; Bates professor receives Celebration of Excellence award; Bates students awarded Watson Fellowships; Three Bates students named Philip J. Otis Fellows; Bates ranks third among nation's most "wired" college campuses; Leon to discuss "Consumers' Most Important Environmental Choices" at Bates; Retirees recognized at Bates; Dharma teacher concludes Spiritual Journeys series at Bates; "Adolescence at the Millennium: Tales From the Field" to be discussed at Bates
March 2000: "Technology and Education in the New Millennium" to be discussed at Bates; Bates student presents senior thesis concert; Conservative Maine author to speak at Bates; Stoneyfield Farm CEO to speak at Bates; Physical anthropologist to discuss myths of race at Bates; Bates seniors to stage "An Evening of Performance Art"; Glazer to perform homage to Johann Sebastian Bach at Bates; The Toasters to perform at Bates; Violinist and pianist to perform at Bates; Bates senior to stage "Driven" March 10; Chilean activist and poet to speak at Bates; Mr. China's Son" to discuss China at Bates; Researchers from the Human Genome Project to speak at Bates; Physicist who slowed the speed of light to speak at Bates; Bates College senior wins two national awards for Lewiston community garden project; Haitian and Lewiston artists exhibit at Bates Mill Center; Willem Breuker Kollektief gives Bates College Concert Series performance; Photojournalist to speak in Bates spiritual series; Walsh to deliver Founders Day Convocation address at Bates; Bates Modern Dance Company to perform; Bates to host State Odyssey of the Mind Tournament April 8; Senior Exhibition opens at Bates Museum of Art April 7; Comedy of medieval Japan to be performed at Bates; Sociologist to discuss new reproductive technologies at Bates; Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman to perform at Bates April 2; Bates students present "Celebrating Places We Call Home: Stories From Lewiston-Auburn"
February 2000: Scholar to discuss "Death and Beyond: The Hope of Resurrection" at Bates; Area residents receive Bates College Class of 1997 Scholarships; Bates College orchestra to perform; Black History Month events scheduled at Bates; Maine art collectors give collection to Bates; Musical ensemble Strangefolk to perform at Bates; Educator and musician continues Spiritual Journeys series at Bates; "Best of the Fest" to be shown at Bates Feb. 17; Bates Seminar Series in Entrepreneurship presents "Scientific and Medical Entrepreneurship"; Role of higher education to be discussed at Bates; Winter Noonday Concert Series at Bates continues in March; Documentary filmmaker to discuss China at Bates; Bates to hold symposium on Islam in the modern world; Women's spirituality center continues Spiritual Journeys at Bates; Bates Seminar Series in Entrepreneurship presents "The Electronic Revolution, E-Commerce"; Maultsby to discuss African American Music in Dutch Culture; Poet Gregory Orr to read at Bates; Portland String Quartet performs with soprano Christina Astrachan; Theologian and artist to speak and exhibit at Bates; New England Piano Quartette to perform at Bates College; McDonough to discuss "Designing a 'Green' World" at Bates; Abrahamsen to discuss "Hyperbaric Medicine 2000" at Bates; Bates student discovers low-tech way to purify arsenic contaminated groundwater; 02-25 THEATER AT BATES TO STAGE "THE COLORED MUSEUM"; Poet Gregory Orr cancels poetry reading at Bates
January 2000: Physicist who slowed the speed of light to speak at Bates; Acclaimed 17-year-old cellist Alisa Weilerstein to perform in Bates College Concert Series; Noted liberation theologist to speak at Bates on Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Conference on crimes connected to the government to be held at Bates Jan. 15; Glazer to perform "Music From a Bygone Era" at Bates; Chinese opera company to perform at Bates; Bates Seminar Series in Entrepreneurship presents "Entrepreneurship as Service"; Bates and USM/LA jointly served by AmeriCorps*VISTA member; Bates and USM/LA to sponsor Martin Luther King Jr. "read-in"; Astrophysicist to discuss age, size of universe at Bates Jan. 27; Bates to host regional American College Dance Festival; Winter Noonday Concert Series to continue at Bates; "Christian Boltanski: The Loss of Innocence" on view at Bates College Museum of Art; Patel to discuss cultural significance of time at Bates; ACLU field organizer to discuss issues and skills; Scholar of the African diaspora to speak at Bates; Berman to discuss gender, cultural identity online; Guitarist Eliot Fisk joins Shanghai String Quartet in Bates College Concert Series performance; Rabbi Paul Cohen continues Spiritual Journeys series at Bates; Deutsch to discuss how parents can "Halve It All"