{"id":20863,"date":"2000-02-07T14:04:15","date_gmt":"2000-02-07T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=20863"},"modified":"2024-07-08T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T19:41:05","slug":"science-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2000\/02\/07\/science-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":""Scientific and Medical Entrepreneurship" discussed in series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Michael Thorne Kelly and Dr. William S. Holt ’63 will discuss Scientific and Medical Entrepreneuship <\/em>at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.\u00a0The presentation is part of The Bates Seminar Series in Entrepreneurship, and the public is invited to attend free of charge.Dr. Kelly is the vice president for research, chairman on the board and founder of Advanced Management Catalyst Inc. in Wiscasset. Prior to joining this company Dr. Kelly served as vice president of New Changes Inc., a nonprofit New York City-based organization. Here he nationally implemented “peer support self-help networking” for the National Urban League’s Disabled Veteran’s Employment Project. Dr. Kelly, who leads seminars, workshops and presentations in numerous settings, has a\u00a0bachelor’s degree\u00a0in education from Antioch College and a doctorate in psychology with dual dissertations in experimental and clinical psychology from Union Institute.<\/p>\n

Dr. Holt is an ophthalmic surgeon in Portland and\u00a0the CEO of the Eye Care & Surgery Center of Maine.\u00a0He has been a\u00a0member of the \u00a0New England Ophthalmology Society for eight years and has chaired the organization’s medical legal liaison for five. Dr. Holt is also a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a member of the American College of Eye Surgeons. He is a Vietnam veteran and received a Bronze Star medal for his work in the army as a medical officer. A native of Calais, Dr. Holt earned his\u00a0masters degree\u00a0and\u00a0doctorate in medicine\u00a0from Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n

Aimed at both students and community members, The Bates Seminar Series in Entrepreneurship is an integrated set of lectures and presentations covering the entrepreneurial process, its history and manifestations from conception to implementation of a new venture. The sessions focus on attributes of entrepreneurs, their search and assessment of opportunities and the identification and obtainment of resources that transform ideas into new ventures. The series exposes the unique ways that the fundamental characteristics of a liberal arts education can be applied in a variety of new ventures.<\/p>\n

The seminar series will rely heavily on Bates alumni, parents and Maine entrepreneurs engaged in a variety of ventures, as well as experts and researchers in the field. The next presentation will be The Electronic Revolution, E-Commerce<\/em> at 7 p.m. Friday, March 3, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.
\nFor more information, call the Bates College Office of Career Services at 207-786-6232 or check the seminar series web site here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Michael Thorne Kelly, vice president for research, chairman of the board and founder of Advanced Management Catalyst Inc. in Wiscasset, and Dr. William S. Holt, Bates College class of 1963 and CEO of Eye Care & Surgery Center of Maine, will discuss “Scientific and Medical Entrepreneurship” at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives at Bates College. The presentation is part of The Bates Seminar Series in Entrepreneurship, and public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,39,162,217],"tags":[3282,7822],"class_list":["post-20863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-event-highlights","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-seminar-series-in-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92346,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20863\/revisions\/92346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}