Stories about "alumni and friends"
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Bates Club of Antarctica, and the professors who got them there
Friday, May 25, 2018 10:41 am
Before they attached video cameras to whales or sampled ancient glaciers, Bates' Antarctic researchers worked closely with their professors.
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‘It takes a strong person’ — Bates Emergency Medical Services is at your service
Friday, May 18, 2018 12:24 pm
First responders for campus medical emergencies, Bates EMS students parlay skills and academic experience into graduate opportunities after Bates.
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Try this on: a Short Term course on private equity. And it fits!
Friday, May 18, 2018 9:10 am
An alum-taught course on the ins and outs of private equity at a liberal arts college? Here's how Bates made it work. It's called Purposeful Work.
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Bates Club of Antarctica: It’s a whale’s world
Friday, May 11, 2018 9:22 am
Over 20 years and 32 trips, Ari Friedlaender '96 has become a leading expert on Antarctic whales — and an outspoken advocate for their environment.
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Bates Club of Antarctica: The secrets of the lakes
Thursday, May 3, 2018 3:24 pm
Drilling through kilometers of ice to figure out how life persists in the most extreme environments, on this planet and beyond.
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Treatment for the horrors of PTSD could be near, thanks to landmark research by Edward Meloni ’91
Friday, April 6, 2018 10:43 am
The day might soon come when breathing xenon gas from a hand-held inhaler could treat the mental affliction known as post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Bates Club of Antarctica: If glaciers could talk, what would they say?
Thursday, April 5, 2018 11:21 am
How did ancient glaciers move, and what can they tell us about climate change? Allie Balter '14 and Brenda Hall '90 are finding out.
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Retail space business wins $9K in student pitch competition
Thursday, April 5, 2018 10:22 am
Ben Nussbaum '19 impressed the alumni judges with his idea's clarity, focus, and viability.
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Meet Ella Knowles, Class of 1884, Bates’ most dangerous alumna
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 2:34 pm
Meet Ella Knowles, Class of 1884 — a suffragist, trailblazing lawyer, and career boat-rocker whose life was a succession of singular female accomplishments.
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In Muskie Archives, a virtual reality system that teaches geometry
Friday, January 26, 2018 11:41 am
Find the bear. Grab a sphere. Turn the sphere into a line and the line into a square. Make a circle big enough to step inside.