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Bates people on stage in costumes made from recycled materials

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

November 22, 2024

At the Bates Trashion Show, one person’s trash is not just another’s treasure, but perhaps even another’s trend.

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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

Fall foliage on the Bates campus Historic Quad, Hathorn Hall

November 21, 2024

Bates announces nine faculty appointments to endowed professorships

November 21, 2024

Retiring after 14 years, Bates Museum of Art Director Dan Mills reflects on highlights from ‘a good run’

From left, Samantha Bunar ’26, Kylie Musante ’26, Olivia Faucera ’26, Nadia Schwartz ’26, Tess Griffith. Seated: Gabby Monaco

November 15, 2024

Our top 10 Bobcat sportraits from fall 2024

On Veterans Day, we pause to reflect and remember. During this morning’s gathering at Bates Veterans Plaza, Joe Castonguay of Facility Services lays a flower atop one of the basalt stones that comprise the plaza centerpiece. “I learned the value of human life in combat,” said Castonguay, a U.S. Army veteran who served for 15 months in Iraq. The Rev. Dr. Brittany Longsdorf, @bates_multifaith chaplain, guided today’s centering moment, which included reflective readings and interfaith prayers, the observing of silence, and the ritual of laying flowers to honor the service and sacrifice of veterans. Dedicated in 2020 and located near the Benjamin E. Mays Center, the plaza honors Bates veterans and invites “reflection on the impact of war on the lives of everyone it touches.” President Garry W. Jenkins was in attendance.

November 15, 2024

Veterans Day at Bates, and thoughts from a Bates combat veteran

November 15, 2024

25 items (or 62, depending your count) in the Bates library’s Lost and Found on Nov. 11, 2024

November 15, 2024

Say What? Quotable quotes from Bates folks: Nov. 15, 2024

November 8, 2024

Three Bates professors earn Phillips Fellowships for research and travel in 2025–26

November 8, 2024

Video: The sights and colors in an autumn flyover of the Bates campus

dressed up woman voting in a very showy way

November 8, 2024

Takeaways after the 2024 U.S. election from three Bates politics professors

November 7, 2024

Campus Construction Update: Nov. 8, 2024