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Bates announces Stoddard Fitness and Well-Being Center and athletics facilities upgrades

March 5, 2026

Bates is embarking on a $45 million project to update two key athletic facilities and construct a new fitness and well-being center. A gift of $10 million from Jon W. Brayshaw ’90, P’25 and Jocelyn Stoddard Brayshaw ’88, P’25 has brought the college a vital step closer to construction. The new facility will be named the Stoddard Fitness and Well-Being Center.

Students tandem biking on Bates campus

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April 24, 2026

Victoria Neason Wallace to join Bates as vice president for enrollment

April 22, 2026

Beyond their punny names, intramural dodgeball teams bring serious competition

April 21, 2026

Explore the breadth of student research at Mount David Summit

April 21, 2026

Shankar Vedantam offers fireside chat on dialogue across differences

April 21, 2026

With Davis Projects for Peace, Bates students empower women workers, expand access to menstrual care

April 9, 2026

Student-led festival brings world class film to Maine

Opening Convocation at 11 a.m. Sept. 2, 2025, on the Historic Quad, followed by In Memoriam: Tree Planting Service. Processional Welcome by President Garry Jenkins Mace Bearer Mary T. Rice=DeFosse Greetings by Zach Richards ’26 and Mohammad Zayd ’27, Co-Presidents Convocation Address “A College for Coming Times” Rebecca Herzig, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies Benediction Raymond Clothier, Interim Multifaith Chaplain Memorial Tree Planting Alongside Gomes Chapel on College Street, in memory of those in the Bates community who died during the past year. The tree was designated with a yellow bow.

April 9, 2026

Bates announces 2026 Commencement honorands, including writer Deborah Harkness

April 9, 2026

Record-breaking applications for the Class of 2030

April 9, 2026

In upcoming thesis exhibition, Bates senior studio art students each have a seat At the Table

April 8, 2026

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

March 26, 2026

Everyone is a star in ‘Everybody’

March 26, 2026

Yun Garrison wins Lee Young Leadership Award from YWCA

March 26, 2026

‘Equally at home everywhere’: Brett Karpf ’26 wins Watson Fellowship

March 26, 2026

In the News: March 2026

There's something quietly radical about handing the keys of a museum's permanent collection to its community — about saying, this decision is yours. Bates Curates is an intimate evening built around exactly that. Curator Samantha Sigmon will guide attendees through three photographs by Shellburne Thurber — works that linger in doorways and dim interiors, that hold the weight of lives lived just out of frame — before opening the floor to a vote that will shape the museum's collection for good. Organized in conjunction with Shellburne Thurber: Full Circle, on view through March 21. Made possible by the Barbara Morris Goodbody Collection Endowment Fund.

March 26, 2026

Night at the museum: The community curates Museum of Art’s permanent collection

March 5, 2026

First-generation student mentors help peers navigate academics, social life at Bates

Over the woodlands brown and bare, over the harvest-fields forsaken, silent, and soft, and slow descends the snow. — Longfellow Back on campus after the February freak storm, Bates feels suspended between motion and stillness; cars crunch in half-melted tracks, boots drip by radiators, flights and plans still catching up somewhere in the clouds. Some of us are here, some are delayed, and the quiet holds space for both. It’s a strange return; rushed arrivals, late-night drives, weather maps open on our phones, yet the air itself feels calm, like the world pressed pause just long enough for us to notice it. The paradox is real; chaos in the forecast, steadiness on the quad. Snow does that. It softens edges, lowers voices, makes even a campus full of movement feel like it’s breathing slowly.

March 5, 2026

February at Bates

February 26, 2026

The ‘limitless curiosities’ of Bates’ Watson finalists

February 26, 2026

Bates announces tenure and promotion for nine faculty members

February 26, 2026

Bates professor, students study ancient climate with Arctic sediment cores