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Drone photography operated and captured by Theophil Syslo on October 10, 2024. (Theophil Syslo | Bates College)

Bates College to team with QuestBridge to enhance access and experience for low-income students

January 23, 2025

Bates College today announced a new partnership with QuestBridge, a national nonprofit that connects high-achieving students from low-income backgrounds with leading institutions of higher education.

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February 7, 2025

Picture Story: Bates students deliver on National Girls & Women in Sports Day

February 7, 2025

An incomplete 50-year history of the Puddle Jump

February 7, 2025

Bates at Night: A visit to the historic Stephens Telescope

Ryan Bavis, Bates Helen A. Papaioanou Professor of Biological Sciences, posing in his Bonney Science Center laboratory and office. Bavis is collaborating with his friend and colleague Peter MacFarlane, assistant professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine on their discovery of a novel animal model mimicking sudden infant death syndrome. Last year, the National Institutes of Health awarded the scientists a $2.8 million grant to study the model over five years. MacFarlane is the project’s principal investigator, and $307,495 is allocated to Bates. Dr. Richard Martin of Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and professor at CWRU’s School of Medicine is also a co-investigator on the project.

February 5, 2025

Two scientists, a friendship, and a problem to solve: Ryan Bavis, Peter MacFarlane receive $2.8 million NIH grant to study sudden infant death syndrome

February 4, 2025

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

January 24, 2025

Picture Story: MLK Day at Bates, and the arc toward justice

January 24, 2025

MLK Day keynote: Why nonviolent protest has become less successful (when it might be needed most)

Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken, winner of the 2024 Kroepsch Teaching Award, teaches students in her course “EDUC 231 - Perspectives on Education” in Pettigrew 30 on January 16, 2025. EDUC 231 - Perspectives on Education This course introduces students to foundational perspectives (anthropological, historical, philosophical, psychological, and sociological) on education and helps students apply these perspectives to contemporary schools and classrooms. The course considers several large questions: What should be the purpose of education in a democratic society? What should be the role of the school? Who should participate in making decisions about schools? In what ways do schools reflect and perpetuate larger social inequities, and, alternately, how can they contribute to a more just and inclusive society? Students must complete at least thirty hours of fieldwork.

January 24, 2025

Teaching teachers: Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken receives 2024 Kroepsch Award for excellence in teaching

7–8pm | MLK Day Spoken Word Festival Presentation: The Multifaith Chaplaincy celebrates the voices that propelled the work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with performances from poets, spoken word artists, and musicians. The second annual MLK Day Spoken Word festival brings together powerful poetry and soulful song around the theme “Bending Toward Justice: Peace and Nonviolence.” Featured artists for the evening are acclaimed poet and co-executive director of Maine Inside Out, Joseph Jackson, and beloved singer Kenya Hall whom Rolling Stone dubbed a “soul powerhouse.” Students Misaki Fukushima ’25, Ahmednoor Hassan ’27, Bora Lugunda ’25, and Oleksii Sverbyvus ’28 will also perform pieces at the festival. Location: Gomes Chapel Program Welcome: Raymond Clothier Spoken Word: Joseph Jackson Music Kenya Hall Poetry: Oleksii Sverbyvus ’28 Poetry/Dance Misaki Fukushima ’25 Spoken Word: Ahmednoor Hassan ’27 Poetry: Bora Laguna ’25 Spoken Word: Joseph Jackson Music: Kenya Hall

January 24, 2025

Slideshow: Hour by hour on MLK Day 2025 with Bates faculty, staff, students, and friends

December 29, 2024

Recalling when Jimmy Carter visited Bates to honor the ‘greatness of America’s character’

December 19, 2024

Bates College Director of Athletics Jason Fein to step down on Dec. 31, 2024

December 13, 2024

Bates’ top 10 Instagram and Facebook posts of 2024

Objects from the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, photographed in the BCO studio at 141 Nichols Street, on July 19, 2018. Wedgwood Plate depicting Parker Hall and Gomes Chapel, this plate is from the college's first edition. It's believed the company began producing college designs in the 1920s.

December 13, 2024

Bates Bazaar: Online deals for Dec. 13, 2024

When the Bates student EcoReps encounter a sustainability problem that needs solving, they don’t just sit around and debate solutions — they envision and then execute them. In two of their most recent successes, the students helped to secure funding to solve an unexpected problem with the existing electric vehicle chargers on campus and helped purchase a slew of new EVs for campus use. “It's really cool that as students, I feel like we have a voice,” says Martin Carriere ’25, an EcoRep from Davis, Calif. “I always feel like our ideas are heard. We're positioned to have bolder ideas and be able to bring those to the table.” Bates is known for its impressive achievements in sustainability, but the existential threat of climate change gives expanding the work great urgency. Carriere, a double major in politics and environmental studies, and fellow EcoRep Cassidy Meyer ’25, an environmental studies major from Carbondale, Co., are both set to graduate this month — and both are working on sustainability solutions right until the end. They even had a meeting on local renewable energy scheduled with college leaders during their last week of classes, amid the haze of studying for finals and saying goodbyes. The two pose for a portrait with the F-150 EV truck outside of Cutten Maintenance Center. And in one photograph, they pose with Paint Shop supervisor Tom Tom Espeaignnette.

December 13, 2024

Wear garnet, go green: Students and Facility Services team up to expand Bates’ EV presence

December 13, 2024

Bates photographers’ favorite images of 2024

December 6, 2024

Art, food, decor, and more: Check out the 2024 Bates Alumni Gift Guide

December 6, 2024

Faculty in the News: Michael Sargent’s research spotlighted on Hidden Brain

December 5, 2024

The 15 most-viewed BatesNews stories 2024

Bates women's basketball defeats Colby 66-63 in Alumni Gym on Dec. 3, 2024.

December 3, 2024

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Bates people on stage in costumes made from recycled materials

November 22, 2024

Traditional garments, elegant gowns, and out-of-this-world outfits: Bates has a passion for Trashion