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Wenzel awarded $100,000 grant for chemistry curriculum development
Thursday, January 1, 2009 1:03 pm
Thomas Wenzel, a chemistry professor at Bates, has received a grant worth nearly $100,000 to support an online curriculum development project in analytical chemistry.
Stairway to Heaven exhibit exploring Chinese cityscape, soon to close
Thursday, December 11, 2008 3:14 pm
Closing Dec. 13 is a major photographic exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Art offering alternative perspectives on the intriguing, dynamic Chinese cityscape. Stairway to Heaven: From Chinese Streets to Monuments and Skyscrapers showcases work by 17 Chinese artists who examine how economic reform, a new influx of personal wealth and rapid industrialization have changed the urban environment.
Slideshow: Mao Jacket sculpture arrives in style on Alumni Walk
Friday, December 5, 2008 12:00 pm
Following its autumn-long appearance on Park Avenue in Manhattan, a 10-foot eponymous Mao jacket was installed on Bates' own busy thoroughfare, Alumni Walk, on Dec. 5.
Moreno Vega inaugurates Afro-Latino/a speaker series
Thursday, December 4, 2008 8:50 am
A talk by Marta Moreno Vega, an expert in expressions of the ancient Yoruba religion in the African diaspora, inaugurates the Arturo Schomburg Afro-Latino Speaker Series at Bates.
Authority on Yoruba influence inaugurates Schomburg Speaker Series
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 2:25 pm
An expert in expressions of the ancient Yoruba religion in the African diaspora offers a lecture at Bates at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St. The speaker is Marta Moreno Vega, who teaches Afro-Caribbean religions and Afro Latino/a studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Open to the public at no cost, the lecture inaugurates the Arturo Schomburg Afro-Latino Speaker Series, presented by the Multicultural Affairs office at Bates. For more information, please call 207-786-8376. Bates debaters rank 16th at Cambridge University tournament
Chinese, Indonesian dramas conclude Global Lens films
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 3:30 pm
The Global Lens 2008 film series, a touring program of narrative feature films from Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia, concludes at Bates College this week with 7 p.m. screenings of the Chinese drama Luxury Car on Wednesday, Dec. 3, and the Indonesian film Opera Jawa on Thursday, Dec. 4, both in Room 105, Olin Arts Center.
Graduate health programs accept 81 percent of Bates applicants
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 2:02 pm
Eighty-one percent of Bates students and alumni who worked with the College's Medical Studies Committee in applying to health care-related graduate programs for fall 2008 matriculation were accepted.
WRBC: Rocking your world since 1958
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 1:41 pm
It's official: WRBC just turned 50! If you live near campus, you can listen over the radio at 91.5 FM. The rest of world can check out a live webcast, read the station's history and interact.
Update: Economic Climate and Bates
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 1:31 pm
In a second letter to the Bates community, President Elaine Tuttle Hansen provides more insight on the College's financial management and planning strategies, and the "people, structures, habits and values already in place to guide us."
Wenzel awarded $100,000 grant for chemistry curriculum development
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:10 am
Thomas Wenzel, Charles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry, received a nearly $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to create an entirely online undergraduate curriculum in analytical chemistry that's distinctive in two ways.