Upcoming Events

Please join us for October’s page turning of John James Audubon’s Birds of America at 12:30pm in…

Wednesday Oct 7

Flipping the Birds: A monthly page turning of John James Audubon’s Birds of America

12:30 pm

Please join us for October’s page turning of John James Audubon’s Birds of America at 12:30pm in the lobby of Ladd Library! The Muskie Archives presents its copy of John James Audubon’s Birds of America for…

The resetting gravestones workshop covers how to repair fallen or out of place stones including…

Saturday Oct 17

Resetting Gravestones Workshop at Riverside Cemetery

10:00 am

The resetting gravestones workshop covers how to repair fallen or out of place stones including tools and methods for moving stones and best practices for repositioning. All tools provided. Registration is…

News & Updates

September 17, 2026

Reentry Sisters join Bates courses

This fall, in addition to the 552 first-year students and 13 transfer students, an additional five students enrolled in a few courses across campus: previously incarcerated women joined first-year seminars through the Reentry Sisters Alumni Scholar Program.

September 17, 2026

Bates welcomes the last of this year’s new faculty

Bates welcomed 11 new tenured or tenure-track faculty for the 2026-2027 academic year, and Bates News is highlighting these faculty in three installments. Read about our new faculty here and here, and read below for the final group of new faculty this year.

September 17, 2026

Bates student honored as Newman Civic Fellow

Natalie Gersen ‘28 of Belmont, Mass., has been named a Newman Civic Fellow through Campus Compact, a national coalition of colleges and universities working to advance the public purposes of higher education.