Stories about "endowed professorships"
![Professor of Biology April Hill in her Carnegie Science Lab, Room 404, training two "new scientists." “For me, it’s like being a coach," she says. Names forthcoming.The two students in the lab with Hill are Sara King ’21 of Newton Center, Mass., and Jasmine Nutakki ’21 of Augusta, Maine. Hill says: “They were learning to use a technique called the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify genes from freshwater sponges. Both students (and some others) will be working over short term on a project funded by my NSF grant to study the gene networks involved in animal:algal symbioses. In this case, the animals are sponges and the algae are Chlorella.”](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2019/05/190425_April_Hill_lab_0565-400x267.jpg)
Hill and Wageners team up to ensure that all STEM students thrive at Bates
Thursday, May 2, 2019 1:57 pm
Students in science and math are entitled to thrive, not just survive, says April Hill, the Wagener Family Professor for Equity and Inclusion in STEM.
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Cheer the Chairs: Brian Ruppert appointed to Hirasawa Professorship
Thursday, May 17, 2018 6:54 pm
Joining the Bates faculty in 2017–18, Professor of Asian Studies Brian Ruppert is the new Kazushige Hirasawa Professor of Japanese Studies.
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Cheers for the Chairs: Holly Ewing appointed to Johnson Professorship
Monday, May 7, 2018 3:35 pm
Ewing's research, often with student collaborators, investigates the interconnections among atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic ecosystems.
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Cheers for the Chairs: Dykstra Eusden ’80 appointed to Whitehouse Professorship
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 11:56 am
Eusden is an intrepid field scientist who brings his students into the world so they can see, discover, learn from, and record geologic history.