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- Faculty Changes 2019-2020 | Who’s here; Who’s on leave; Who’s retired
- Meet the new faculty! Learn more about the incoming faculty for 2019-2020
- Changes to the Bates Academic Calendar
Her mentor retires, and Caitrin Lynch ’89 reflects on Steve Kemper’s lessons on equity and justice:
Thumbs up: Jon Cavallero’s top 30 films of the decade:
Paula Schlax and Travis Gould awarded major grant for Lyme disease research:
As Jane Retires: Costlow reflects on her final year of teaching in an ongoing series:
And also see:
What I look forward to teaching: Meredith Greer on sine curves and daylight:
Carl Straub, who transformed the Bates faculty and curriculum, has died:
Six classic texts by Carl Straub:
The reach of Krista Aronson’s Diverse Book Finder broadens:
Creativity, discipline, collaboration: Joëlle Morris on why we should be singing:
Tom Wenzel honored for outstanding contributions to chemistry education:
Hiroya Miura’s new concerto and opera are premiered:
Alex Diamond-Stanic makes astronomical discoveries in a galaxy far, far away:
bates.edu/news/2019/10/30/ifor-the-first-time-astronomers-watch-a-galaxy-eject-gas-into-spac/?utm_source=Bates+Updates&utm_campaign=b9fcf0c97a-BATES_NEWS_MONTHLY_UPDATE&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_682d3e3810-b9fcf0c97a-260717921
Martin Andrucki on directing Maine playwright John Cariani’s Love/Sick:
bates.edu/news/2019/10/29/qa-martin-andrucki-diagnoses-maine-playwrights-love-sick/?utm_source=Bates+Updates&utm_campaign=b9fcf0c97a-BATES_NEWS_MONTHLY_UPDATE&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_682d3e3810-b9fcf0c97a-260717921
Faculty and students see the potential of open educational resources:
bates.edu/news/2019/10/24/faculty-and-students-find-low-cost-versatility-in-open-educational-resources/?utm_source=Bates+Updates&utm_campaign=7dd658fc8e-BATES_NEWS_MONTHLY_UPDATE&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_682d3e3810-7dd658fc8e-260717921
Holly Ewing plays a pivotal role in a four-state, $6-million NSF Cyanobacteria study:
bates.edu/news/2019/10/23/bates-scientist-has-pivotal-role-in-6-million-project-to-better-predict-lake-cyanobacteria-blooms/?utm_source=Bates+Updates&utm_campaign=7dd658fc8e-BATES_NEWS_MONTHLY_UPDATE&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_682d3e3810-7dd658fc8e-260717921
A brilliant career: Following Jane Costlow’s last year of teaching:
bates.edu/news/tag/my-last-year/
Slingbacks to work boots: Chris McDowell collaborates on a new exhibition at Museum L-A:
bates.edu/news/2019/10/10/qa-christine-mcdowell-unpacks-her-shoes/?utm_source=Bates+Updates&utm_campaign=5467f71353-BATES_NEWS_MONTHLY_UPDATE&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_682d3e3810-5467f71353-260717921
Therí Pickens’ new book, Black Madness:Mad Blackness offers new perspectives on blackness and disability:
bates.edu/news/2019/10/10/qa-we-can-learn-a-lot-by-reading-mad-black-texts-says-theri-pickens/?utm_source=Bates+Updates&utm_campaign=5467f71353-BATES_NEWS_MONTHLY_UPDATE&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_682d3e3810-5467f71353-260717921
Bobcat 339! Andrew Kennedy and students invent a promising new molecule:
bates.edu/news/2019/10/04/invented-by-bates-students-molecule-bobcat339-has-pharmaceutical-promise/?utm_source=Bates+Updates&utm_campaign=6563eb1d14-BATES_NEWS_MONTHLY_UPDATE&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_682d3e3810-6563eb1d14-260717921
Cliff Odle’s play, The Petition, performed at Boston’s Old State House, explores slavery and freedom:
bates.edu/news/2019/10/04/qa-in-boston-state-house-play-cliff-odle-explores-slavery-freedom-and-allyship/?utm_source=Bates+Updates&utm_campaign=6563eb1d14-BATES_NEWS_MONTHLY_UPDATE&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_682d3e3810-6563eb1d14-260717921
Kroepsch Teaching Award winner Stephanie Kelley-Romano takes on conspiracy theories:
bates.edu/news/2019/09/26/stephanie-kelly-romano-guide-to-conspiracy-rhetoric/?utm_source=Bates+Updates&utm_campaign=180ab5b199-BATES_NEWS_MONTHLY_UPDATE&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_682d3e3810-180ab5b199-260717921
Ethan Miller ’00 of Environmental Studies reflects on how to live in the world:
bates.edu/news/2019/09/26/qa-its-time-for-a-new-paradigm-in-our-view-of-how-to-live-says-ethan-miller/?utm_source=Bates+Updates&utm_campaign=180ab5b199-BATES_NEWS_MONTHLY_UPDATE&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_682d3e3810-180ab5b199-260717921
Museum of Art wins $192,000 grant to study Marsden Hartley Collection:
bates.edu/news/2019/09/16/fueled-by-192000-grant-bates-museum-to-publish-catalog-of-art-by-marsden-hartley/?utm_source=Bates+Updates&utm_campaign=c438bf9d8d-BATES_NEWS_MONTHLY_UPDATE&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_682d3e3810-c438bf9d8d-260717921
Five Bates professors share what they are most excited to teach students this fall:
bates.edu/news/2019/09/05/lining-up-for-convocation-five-bates-professors-share-what-theyre-excited-to-teach/
Dolores Huerta strikes a chord with inspirational Convocation speech to the Class of 2023: bates.edu/news/2019/09/04/convocation-speaker-to-the-class-of-23-we-have-the-power/
Bates announces four faculty promotions for 2019-20:
bates.edu/news/2019/08/22/bates-announces-four-faculty-promotions-including-tenure-for-2019-2020/
Neuroscience Assistant Professor Michelle Greene takes the lead on the largest-ever federal grant awarded to Bates for a project focused on a groundbreaking Visual Experience Database: bates.edu/news/2019/08/16/bates-announces-3-97-million-national-science-foundation-grant-for-visual-database-project/
New Director of Morse Mountain Conservation Area and Short Ridge Coastal Center announced:
bates.edu/news/2019/08/16/caitlin-cleaver-named-director-of-bates-morse-mountain-conservation-area-and-shortridge-coastal-center/