Stories from 2020
The top 10 tweets from Bates College Twitter in 2020
Friday, December 18, 2020 2:11 pm
Most of the top 10 tweets from the Bates College Twitter account reflect what we know about the year 2020. Nuff said. But there were a few bright spots.
Video: Bates 2020 in images, ‘may we be good to each other’
Friday, December 18, 2020 1:09 pm
In this presentation of Bates images from 2020, you'll hear Multifaith Chaplain Brittany Longsdorf's call to "care for one another in this Bates community in ways never asked of us before."
18 items in the Library’s Lost and Found on Dec. 17, 2020
Friday, December 18, 2020 11:30 am
Much has changed during the pandemic. What hasn't: Students still lose things in Ladd Library.
Bates loans pivotal COVID-19 storage freezers to local hospitals
Thursday, December 17, 2020 2:01 pm
In the life-and-death battle against the pandemic, Bates professors donate pivotal COVID-19 vaccine storage freezers to two Maine hospitals.
Bates photographers’ favorite images of an unfavorable 2020
Thursday, December 17, 2020 12:46 pm
Like you, we kinda cringe at putting "favorite" and "2020" in the same sentence. But we always play favorites when it comes to Bates and Bates people.
Despite no games, first-year Bobcats still win big with teamwork and belonging
Friday, December 11, 2020 10:33 am
Not one sports contest was played this fall. But teamwork was undiminished — especially how student-athletes helped bring new students into the Bobcat fold.
The top 13 Bates College Facebook posts of 2020
Thursday, December 10, 2020 1:15 pm
The top 13 Bates College Facebook posts of 2020 puts into sharp relief just what, in the midst of the trials of a pandemic, the Bates community values.
Here’s what the NASA astronaut said to the Bates sophomore STEM students
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:36 pm
NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara joined a sophomore science class as part of program that seeks to disrupt the "weed-out" approach to STEM education.
Oh Henry! Bill Henry ’85 wins editing Emmy for HBO’s ‘Succession’
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 10:20 am
Henry has seen the film industry’s shift from “100 years on acetate film to a completely digital medium.”
Bates students dig into the science of dirt in a historic Maine landscape
Monday, December 7, 2020 5:46 pm
Bates environmental studies professor Holly Ewing guides her students to historic coastal Maine farmland for course that digs into the science of dirt.