Stories about "Australia"
2014 Watson Fellow Brian Kennedy
Thursday, April 3, 2014 1:58 pm
Brian Kennedy, an economics major from Port Washington, N.Y., is one of two Bates College seniors to receive 2014 Watson Fellowships.
Men's crew traveling to UK for Henley Royal Regatta
Monday, June 22, 2009 9:54 am
For the past three years, the Bates College men's rowing team has stood by as the women's team has qualified for, and excelled in, the NCAA Women's Rowing Championships. Since the NCAA doesn't sponsor championships in men's rowing, it would be understandable if there might have been mixed emotions about seeing their teammates get to extend their season in something resembling the limelight.
Australian research suggests human potential to change environment
Monday, August 8, 2005 10:59 am
Why did one species disappear while the other survived? The simple answer is diet. Genyornis couldn't adapt to radical changes in the available food supply, while the emu could, according to a geological study published in the July 8 issue of Science magazine and co-authored by Bates geochemist Beverly Johnson.
Author of 'Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence' to speak at Bates
Friday, February 13, 2004 11:41 am
Doris Pilkington, author of "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" (University of Queensland Press, 1997), will give a talk coupled with the screening of the acclaimed 2002 film "The Rabbit-Proof Fence" at 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, in the Benjamin Mays Center, corner Bardwell and Russell streets. The public is invited to attend the film and lecture, sponsored by the Bates College Multicultural Center, free of charge. For more information, call 207-786-8376.
Professor's book focuses on ethnic nationalism, Macedonian conflict
Thursday, February 8, 1996 9:34 am
Loring M. Danforth, professor of anthropology at Bates, has written a book about the claims to and construction of Macedonian identity in Northern Greece and Australia. In The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World, just published by Princeton University Press, Danforth examines the Macedonian conflict in light of contemporary theoretical work on ethnic nationalism, the construction of national identities and cultures, the invention of tradition and the role of the state in building a nation.