The New York Times interviews Men's Health editor Peter Moore '78 for its story about President Obama "taking his argument for a health-care plan to a new place: Rodale magazines, where he or his wife appear on covers of Prevention, Men’s Health, Women’s Health and the new publication Children’s Health." Moore, who wrote the November 2008 Men's Health cover story on Obama, followed up by pitching the idea of involving the Obamas in health-care stories in the Rodale magazines. Moore, an English major at Bates, says he approached his most recent Barack Obama interview with a very clear point of view. "We’re not bystanders," he says. "The whole issue of health care in the U.S., it's something that we have to feel strongly about. We're health journalists." View story from The New York Times, Sept. 2, 2009.

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Homecoming 2009, held this year Sept. 25-27, featured NESCAC sports as central to the weekend's fun. Important gatherings also included a Multicultural Center-hosted reception and exhibition for alumni diversity in the arts, a 90th-Anniversary Outing Club reception and a volunteer recognition reception and dinner. See a few of these events and more in this slide show. Photographs by Phyllis Graber Jensen and Marni Lyn Sienko.

The annual Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Graduate and Professional School Fair takes place from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building, Central Avenue.

The community is invited. There is no admission charge and no prior registration is required.

Recruiters this year represent 88 postgraduate and professional school programs all over the continental United States. They'll be on campus to meet informally with students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members to discuss programs in business, law, science and health, education and the arts.  You will be able to meet with representatives to ask general or program specific questions.

See a list of participating institutions. For more information about the event, please call the Office of Career Services at 207-786-6232.

Five Bates College graduates are teaching and conducting research abroad this year thanks to scholarships from the Fulbright Program, funded by the U.S. Department of State.

The Bates Fulbright recipients are: John Atchley, class of 2006, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Jill Jakimetz, class of 2005, of Veneta, Ore.; Timothy McCall, class of 2008, of Andover, Mass.; Ross Van Horn, class of 2008, of Highland Park, N.J.; and Rebecca Westlake, class of 2007, of Goldens Bridge, N.Y..

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A New York Times story notes that Sam Duvall '05, a philosophy major at Bates, represents both John Isner, who upset Andy Roddick at the U.S. Open, as well as 17-year-old Melanie Oudin, who outlasted Maria Sharapova, the 2006 women’s champion, in three sets. The story says that Duvall, "a former player at NCAA Division III Bates College...has a tennis stable has become the stuff of fantasy players’ dreams overnight." His two clients are "very real to people," Duvall tells the paper. "That's kind of the attraction." (View story.)

Olivia Wakefield Lee '92, a religion major at Bates, is one of Consulting Magazine's "future leaders," as noted in the magazine's feature on "2009 Women Leaders in Consulting." Lee is a senior consultant for Towers Perrin in its Executive Compensation and Rewards practice. (View story)

Bon Appetit food editor Andrew Knowlton '97, a philosophy major at Bates, appears on a Today show segment about hot food trends for the fall, mentioning "super versatile" Tuscan kale "for people who think they don't like kale," and pimenton (smoked Spanish paprika), a spice for almost anything. "On birthday cake it's so-so, but it still works," he says, to laughter. In a Bon Appetit story, he praises Portland, Maine, the “Foodiest Small Town in America,” citing the city’s fresh seafood, local beers, artisanal bakeries, and “the best breakfasts in the country.” In the Today segment, Knowlton appears at about the 4:15 mark. (View video.)

The Beloit Daily News covers the Sept. 25, 2009, inauguration of H. Scott Bierman '77 as the 11th president of Beloit College. Bierman, a Bates trustee, tells the audience that "the best colleges rest on the backs of students, faculty, staff and alumni." The story notes that Bierman "invoked the college's rich history, downplaying his own role as president." View video of Bierman's inaugural address, and view story from Beloit Daily News, Sept. 26, 2009.

Bates College alumni from diverse backgrounds involved in the arts talk about their work in four events taking place Sept. 24-26, as part of the college's Alumni Homecoming Weekend.

Angela Perkins Palmer '00 wrote the screenplay for "Spent!" Shown here is Tracey Costello as the lead character, Cheryl Johnson.

Sponsored by the college's Multicultural Center, the Multicultural Alumni: Diversity in the Arts events are open to the public at no cost, but two events require RSVPs. For more information, please call 207-786-8376. (more...)