Role-reversal ritual encourages new perspectives
Posted by: Phyllis Graber Jensen on: July 29, 2009
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President Elaine Tuttle Hansen compares notes in her Lane Hall office with Walter Garcia ‘11 after the two switched places for the day.
At Bates College, strong bridges between faculty, students and staff go beyond being merely friendly. President for a Day, a tradition started three years ago by President Elaine Tuttle Hansen, reinforces the Bates goal of learning to see other perspectives.This year, President Hansen traded places with Walter Garcia ‘11 of Stonington, Maine.
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See what the day was like by watching a short video.
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John Kelsey’s neuroscience lab brings in the brains
Posted by: Bates Online Media on: July 24, 2009
Professor of Psychology John Kelsey has been a member of the Bates faculty since 1979. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen.
If you’re a student in Professor of Psychology John Kelsey’s neuroscience laboratory, you might get a chance to co-author a research article. And if you’re Kelsey, your students might inspire you to explore a new area of neuroscience. “My research is done with my students and through my students,” says Kelsey. Read the rest of this entry »
Ti’ Acadie brings Francophone folk to Bates’ Midsummer Lakeside series
Posted by: Doug Hubley on: July 23, 2009
Pam Weeks, Jim Joseph and Bill Olson perform as Ti' Acadie at this week's 2009 Lakeside Midsummer Concert.
Ti’ Acadie, a lively trio focusing on the Francophone folk music of Louisiana and Atlantic Canada, performs this week’s installment of the 2009 Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 23, in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater at the college’s Lake Andrews.
Grant supports physics research hinting at new basis for computing
Posted by: Bates Online Media on: July 23, 2009
Lilian Childress
A Bates physicist has won a grant from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement to study a phenomenon that hints at a possible basis for the next generation of computers. Read the rest of this entry »
Tania Isaac Dance presents Bates Dance Festival premiere
Posted by: Bates Online Media on: July 23, 2009
A visually explosive, sensual marriage of modern American and Caribbean aesthetics, Tania Isaac Dance brings its newest evening-length work to the Bates Dance Festival in performances at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 24 and 25, in Bates College’s Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.
Tickets are $20 for the general public and $12 for students and seniors, and can be purchased by calling 207-786-6161. Dance writer Debra Cash offers a pre-performance lecture in the festival’s “Inside Dance” series at 7:15 p.m. on the 25th.
In addition, the festival mainstage artist to follow Isaac, choreographer Bebe Miller, offers a free video talk about her work at 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 27, in Schaeffer Theatre. And the popular “Musicians’ Concert,” featuring players taking part in the festival, takes place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Read the rest of this entry »
Bates, Bowdoin share $150,000 grant to improve quantitative education
Posted by: Bates Online Media on: July 23, 2009
Matt Cote, an associate professor of chemistry and associate dean of the faculty, is coordinating Bates' involvement in a project examining the teaching of quantitative reasoning skills.
A national foundation that supports liberal arts education has awarded nearly $150,000 to Bates and Bowdoin colleges for a collaborative effort to strengthen students’ quantitative reasoning skills.
The New York-based Teagle Foundation has granted the colleges $148,780 for a three-year project exploring effective ways to teach quantitative reasoning. The foundation’s Systematic Improvement in Student Learning initiative will support the schools’ efforts to develop techniques for assessing students’ progress in such reasoning. It’s hoped that these assessments will provide a basis for developing best practices in curriculum and teaching techniques. Read the rest of this entry »
Kate Weare Company opens Bates Dance Festival with ‘Bridge of Sighs’
Posted by: Doug Hubley on: July 9, 2009
Dancers of the Kate Weare Company
Opening the 2009 performance season of the internationally acclaimed Bates Dance Festival, the nuanced, sensual Kate Weare Company offers two Maine premieres at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 11, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St. Read the rest of this entry »
Bates, region’s arts presenters seek your input regarding cultural events
Posted by: Doug Hubley on: July 7, 2009
Cultural events at Bates draw audiences from all over. A talk by journalist and food activist Michael Pollan in October 2008 occasioned this overflow crowd in the Chapel.
Would it be the newspaper? Radio or TV? E-mail, Twitter or Facebook?
If you had your druthers, what would be your favorite way to learn about arts and entertainment events in the Lewiston-Auburn region? Read the rest of this entry »
Clean Sweep sets record, raising more than $21,000 for local nonprofits
Posted by: Doug Hubley on: July 2, 2009
Eager shoppers filled Underhill Arena for the ninth edition of Bates' popular Clean Sweep.
Bates’ ninth annual Clean Sweep, a “garage sale” of usable goods donated by departing students, raised a record $21,400 in proceeds that will be divided among local nonprofit organizations. Read the rest of this entry »
Physics professor’s jazz trio opens Midsummer Lakeside Concerts
Posted by: Doug Hubley on: July 2, 2009
Performing as Three Point Trio, bassist Tim Clough, guitarist and Bates physics prof John Smedley and drummer Tom Schipper open the 2009 Lakeside Midsummer Concert Series.
The Lewiston-Auburn jazz band Three Point Trio opens the 2009 Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 9, in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater at the college’s Lake Andrews. Read the rest of this entry »
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