Stories about "research excellence"
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27 of the best thank-yous from Bates senior theses through the years
Thursday, November 19, 2015 8:37 am
This being Thanksgiving Week, here are the best — the most distinctive, unusual, and quirky — thank-yous offered by generations of weary, yet grateful, seniors.
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Robbins ’11 is lead author of landmark paper on asexual coming-out experience
Friday, October 16, 2015 11:46 am
What started as a way for Nicolette Robbins ’11 to spend her final Short Term has become groundbreaking research on what it’s like to come out as an asexual person.
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Schlax nets $345K grant to study genetic ‘switches’ central to Lyme disease
Thursday, October 15, 2015 9:58 am
Chemistry professor Paula Schlax's $250,000 grant to study the bacteria that causes Lyme disease includes support for student research.
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‘Unexpected’ Arctic night life found by Bates biologist Will Ambrose and fellow researchers
Thursday, October 1, 2015 12:21 pm
The Arctic's long polar night does not slow down the marine ecosystem — a finding that has sobering consequences for how we think about the seasons in this era of climate change.
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‘Love drug’ oxytocin’s possible dark side is the topic of $300,000 Bates study
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 12:23 pm
Bates neuroscientist Nancy Koven will use a three-year, nearly $300,000 federal grant to take a cold and hard look at oxytocin.
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Physics professor Travis Gould nets $473,000 grant to develop new microscope
Friday, August 14, 2015 11:57 am
Gould’s is the latest significant grant awarded to Bates faculty who are utilizing powerful microscopes in the fields of biology, neuroscience, nanotechnology, and photophysics.
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Bates is a distinctive presence at international chemistry conference
Thursday, July 23, 2015 1:31 pm
Bates College was the only undergraduate institution represented at a recent international conference dedicated to chirality, a branch of chemistry.
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Summer Student Work: Fan Dong ’17 investigates fracking’s health benefits
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:54 pm
Could fracking have health benefits? A junior from Beijing, Fan Dong '17 is helping a Bates College expert in health economics find out.
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Five Bates students in Germany as science, engineering interns
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 3:56 pm
Five Bates College students are doing sophisticated research in Germany as part of the Research Internships in Science and Engineering program.
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Lecturer in education receives Fulbright for research in India
Thursday, July 16, 2015 1:21 pm
Anita Charles of Bates College's education faculty has received a Fulbright award for the study of educational practices in India.