Stories about "Rebecca Herzig"
Bates in the News: March 27, 2020
Friday, March 27, 2020 10:47 am
As COVID-19 affects study and work, we revisit Bates history, celebrate fellowships and promotions, and follow a Bates alum reality star.
Bates in the News: Dec. 20, 2019
Friday, December 20, 2019 9:20 am
An alum in Congress, an old-timey movie star, and two picture-book experts feature in this last Bates in the News of the decade.
Bates in the News: Nov. 22, 2019
Friday, November 22, 2019 9:46 am
Bates research gets a national spotlight, two bestselling alumnae authors release new books, and an alum investigates basketball flops.
Bates in the News: Dec. 14, 2018
Thursday, December 13, 2018 3:10 pm
An alumna discovers her great-grandfather's art, an economics professor recreates Maine election results, and Ed Muskie's people recall his 1968 campaign.
The unique proposition of Bates’ new Digital and Computational Studies Program
Friday, February 26, 2016 10:00 am
The new DCS Program's goal is squarely in the liberal arts wheelhouse: To give Bates graduates "the capacity to claim the world," in the words of one professor.
Bates in the News: Dec. 11, 2015
Thursday, December 10, 2015 4:40 pm
Professor Rebecca Herzig's book Plucked named an Economist best of 2015; The Simpsons teases Bates (and vice versa); and Bloomberg Business looks to Ben Ayers '99 for a better way to help Nepal.
Bates in the News: Feb. 13, 2015
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 11:10 am
John Tooker ’92 When bugs don’t eat slugs, there’s a problem afoot…
‘Plucked’: Race, gender, science, medicine converge in history of hair removal
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 3:31 pm
"Plucked: A History of Hair Removal," a new social history by Bates College professor Rebecca Herzig, weaves together for the first time Americans' shifting beliefs about facial and body hair with the technology and business of body modification.
Herzig to speak on science, suffering and feminism
Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:31 am
Rebecca Herzig marks her appointment to an endowed professorship at Bates College with a lecture on Dec. 2.
Community of voices resonate in new Bates mission statement
Friday, August 27, 2010 2:00 pm
Hundreds of people took part in crafting the new mission statement that…