Stories about "Mellon Innovation Fund"
'Plutonium cities,' climate change at issue
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:22 am
The winter's lectures at Bates begin with two intriguing guests. Kate Brown, an award-winning historian at the University of Maryland, discusses "plutonium cities" in the U.S. and Soviet Union at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk). A day later, Kerry Emanuel, an influential professor of meteorology at MIT, presents "Uncertainty, Modeling and Climate Change" at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 14, in Room 204 of Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave.
Native Americans' role in mercury legislation at issue in talk by UMaine anthropologist
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 11:44 am
An associate professor of anthropology and coordinator of Native American research at the University of Maine, Darren Ranco discusses the influence of Native American tribes on environmental legislation in a Bates College lecture at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, in Room 204 of Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave.
Activists to discuss indigenous politics, environmentalism in the Americas at Bates College
Friday, February 12, 2010 9:39 am
The politics and environmental interests of indigenous peoples in the Americas, including Native Americans from Maine, are at issue in two nights of panel discussions at Bates College at Monday, Feb. 22 and Tuesday, Feb. 23.
Psychologist to discuss 'contact hypothesis' and implications for reducing prejudice
Thursday, February 4, 2010 4:47 pm
Rupert Brown will discuss the "contact hypothesis," the argument that contact among members of different groups will reduce existing prejudice and improve social relations between them.
Yale psychologist to lecture about body-mind duality
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 12:20 pm
Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at Yale, visits Bates College to offer a lecture exploring how humans think of bodies and souls at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road.