A typical major requires between I0 and I4 courses.
PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN
Courses numbered 400 to 499 are for seniors doing specialized work in their major.
A student can take two courses pass/fail during their career, but not during Short Term.
Lang Jingshan, Qinchen ru yunwu (Entering the Mist in Morning), composite photograph reproduced in Badeyuan shejing.
A $720,000 award from the National Science Foundation to Associate Professor of Neuroscience Jason Castro has meaning beyond the dollars. The grant, from the NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development Program, “is the foundation’s most prestigious grant for junior faculty scientists,” says Matt Auer, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Bates. And because such grant applications are evaluated by peers in an applicant’s field of study, Castro says that the award is “a vote of confidence from colleagues in your research area, and I’m very honored that my work was recognized in this way.”
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THIS JUST IN A sampling of recent faculty-authored articles.
The Allegorical Landscape: Lang Jingshan’s Photography in Context
Publication: Archives of Asian Art • Author: Mia Yinxing Liu (Asian studies) • What It Explains: Lang Jingshan was a 20th-century icon of Chinese photography, yet his images were nevertheless deemed utopian escapism removed from social reality. Liu argues that Lang did, in fact, engage with the turmoil of his times with images rich in political and social significance. Estimating the Causal Relationship Between Foreclosures and Unemployment During the Great Recession
Publication: Economics Letters • Authors: Paul Shea (economics) and Ghulam Awais Rana ’16 • What It Explains: U.S. policy makers say that falling housing prices were a main contributor to the Great Recession, and that foreclosures were a symptom. Shea’s study shows that the foreclosure crisis itself was the likely culprit. Millennial-scale Oscillations Between Sea Ice and Convective Deep Water Formation
Publication: Paleoceanography • Author: Raj Saha ’03 (physics) • What It Explains: Periodic and abrupt warming events of the last ice age may have been caused by the interaction between sea ice and ocean water to produce enhanced cooling and sinking of the North Atlantic current.
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