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Commencement 2025 Archives

May 21, 2021

Both from Zimbabwe, Commencement’s two Senior Speakers also have compelling stories in common

By coincidence, the two Senior Speakers at Commencement 2021 (one for each of two ceremonies) are both STEM majors from…

November 15, 2024

Our top 10 Bobcat sportraits from fall 2024

"Sportraits" is a portmanteau of the words "sports" and "portrait," and as you can see in this photo story, they're as inventive as the word itself. They're funtastic. Or funthusiastic?

November 15, 2024

Veterans Day at Bates, and thoughts from a Bates combat veter…

We caught up with Army veteran Joe Castonguay after Veterans Day, on a sunny morning when he and his grounds crew team were clearing leaves outside Rand Hall.

November 15, 2024

25 items (or 62, depending your count) in the Bates library’s…

The sweetest lost item was a greeting card with the quote “Etre avec des gens qu'on aime cela suffit” (“Being with people you love, that’s enough”) from a grandfather to his Bates grandson in his first week on campus.