Bates professor to give history talk at UM

ORONO – A noted science and technology historian from Bates College will make a Women’s History Month presentation at the University of Maine at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, March 20, at the Memorial Union’s Bangor Room.

Rebecca Herzig is associate professor and chair of Women and Gender Studies at Bates. The author of “Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America,” Herzig will speak on “Suffering for Beauty: Women, Technology and Body Care in American History.”