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Bates College and the Department of Psychology are pleased to host the seventh biennial meeting of SARMAC. Bates is a highly selective liberal arts college enrolling 1700 undergraduate students and employing some 150 faculty members. It was founded in 1855 by Maine abolitionists and was one of the first co-educational colleges on the East Coast. Consequently, our graduates have always included men and women from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. The College is consistently ranked among the best small schools in the country and was the Princeton Review’s “Best Value” based on outstanding academics, low costs, and generous financial aid in 2005.

The Department of Psychology at Bates consists of nine full time faculty members whose active research programs include women’s cardiovascular health, self and culture, racial and ethnic identity development, prejudice and stereotyping, child development, attention and perception, eyewitness testimony, drug addiction, and neural bases of psychological disorders. Psychology typically enrolls 50 senior majors per year and is consistently one of the largest majors at Bates. All of our seniors conduct either empirical or service-learning theses. Some of these projects culminate in peer-reviewed publications with undergraduates and faculty as co-authors.

The Department is housed in a new academic facility, Pettengill Hall, which will serve as the location for most of the conference meetings. (See no. 64, on the Central Campus Detail Map on the College's website.)

On the College's Web Site you will also find a full campus map and driving directions to the campus, as well as general information about the College. There, you can take an on-line tour of the campus. The SARMAC Conference coincides with the College's summer break, which means parking will be plentiful both in the College parking lots and on the streets around the campus.