Hiroya Miura, assistant professor of music, directs the Bates College Orchestra.

In their first collaboration in several years, the Bates College Orchestra and the Bowdoin College Orchestra will join forces to perform music by Beethoven, Rossini, Schumann and

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Admission to both concerts is free, but tickets are required for the Bates performance. For more information about the Bates event, contact 207-786-6135 or this E-mail. (more...)

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Maine Public Broadcasting Network rebroadcast the Harward Center's September Civic Forum panel, "Dealing with Climate Change: The Debate among Policy Makers," on Oct. 16. The forum was held to clarify the pros, cons and points of confusion and contention in the policy debate over climate change. Panelists were: Ted Koffman, the executive director of Maine Audubon and former chair of the Maine Legislature’s Natural Resources Council; Pete Didisheim, advocacy director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine; Melissa Carey, climate change policy specialist with the Environmental Defense Fund; and Tom Tietenberg, professor emeritus of environmental and natural resource economics at Colby College.

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From left, visiting panelists Joline Blais, Eszter Hargittai and Anna Everett, shown with Bates professor Leslie I. Hill.

"We're in the middle of a revolution," Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen said at midday on April 30, "and it's a hard place to see from."

But Hansen, other members of the Bates community and three visiting scholars spent that afternoon seeking a better view of the academy's work amidst the tumult, amidst the creation and destruction, wrought by digital media. (more...)

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Author Bill McKibben. photo by Nancie Battaglia

Bill McKibben, the environmental journalist who wrote the first book aimed at a general readership about climate change, gave a talk titled "Global Warming: Fighting Against It, Living With It" on Thursday, March 12. (more...)

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The Harward Center for Community Partnerships continues its 2008-09 Civic Forum series with a student panel discussion on possible outcomes and implications of the upcoming presidential election.

Theodore Sutherland, a sophomore from Accra, Ghana; Rachel Kurzius, a junior from Ridgewood, N.J.; Marshall Hatch, a junior from Chicago; and Emily Grady, a junior from Littleton, Mass., offer a presentation titled "Why November 4 Matters: Student Voices on the Stakes of the Presidential Election" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

The event is open to the public free of charge. For more information, please contact Kristen Cloutier at the Harward Center, at 207-786-6202. (more...)

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Naomi Oreskes on SOLS bridge. Science Studio Interview April 4, 2008.

Historian of science at the University of California, San Diego, Naomi Oreskes gave a lecture on the science of climate change and the notion of scientific consensus at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

Oreskes focused on the established agreement within the scientific community on the existence of climate change and the implications of these changes.

Sponsored by the College Lecture Series, her talk offered insight into the involvement and tension of political influence in the scientific community. The event was open to the public free of charge.

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For the first time in many years, citizen participation and national service are important themes of the 2008 Presidential election.  The campaigns have tapped into growing concern with the disengagement of Americans from political and civic life and a growing movement to renew active citizenship.

What will happen to the movement for civic engagement after the election?  Can it change the ways citizens engage their government?  (more...)

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Using traps baited with peanut butter, a Bates research team spent the summer catching small mammals and studying the ticks they carried, specifically looking for ticks infected with the Lyme bacterium. Working with visiting biology professor Ronald Barry were biology majors Elizabeth Rogers ’09 (shown above picking the critters off a white-footed mouse) of Mansfield, Mass., and Nelish Pradhan ’10 of Kathmandu, Nepal. The research was supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. [More...]

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Squeezing the equivalent of two semester-long courses into just six weeks, the second annual Hughes Summer Scholars Program at Bates has been a real academic workout for the students involved. "But the program really focuses on giving support and making sure that we have the resources we need to succeed," says one of the first-year students taking part in the program. The program aims to bring into science and mathematics a wider range of students, including students from groups underrepresented in those fields. [More...]

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Greg Arata ’96 performs with 1990s Deansmen John Shim ’98 (left), Jim Roberts ’99 (behind), and Jay Postell Pringle ’98 (right). Photograph by H. Lincoln Benedict '09.

The alumni Deansmen who celebrated the a cappella group’s 50th anniversary last Nov. 2–4 turned up the volume on their shared memories — all the way to 11.

There were powerful public moments, like Saturday night’s Chapel concert — see the slide show at left — featuring current and former Deansmen. The family feeling was quite literal, in fact, for Deansmen Matt Sullivan ’94 and his father-in-law Russell Baker ’64. "It was the first time they have ever sung together," says Matt’s wife, Kristin Baker Sullivan ’94, the daughter of Russell Baker and Sharon Fisher Baker ’65. "It was such fun to watch them having so much fun." (more...)