Stories about "Academic Life"
26 items (plus two from Commons) in the Bates library’s lost and found on June 26, 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 12:38 pm
As the days get warmer, the learners at Bates get younger and older. And what they have in common with Bates students? They lose things.
Announcing the 28th annual Bates College summer book list
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 12:09 pm
Fifty-six members of the Bates community — faculty, staff, retirees, and alumni — submitted book titles for this year's summer reading list, begun in 1997.
When it rains, it pours: Bates’ Mike Retelle coauthors research on extremes in Arctic weather patterns
Friday, June 21, 2024 10:27 am
Ask Professor Emeritus of Geology Mike Retelle about his contribution to a new paper in Nature, and he'll point to the pipeline of talented Bates students who’ve supported the Arctic research over the last two decades.
Stephen Engel: As we mark Pride 2024, remember our predecessors’ fight and demand for recognition
Friday, June 21, 2024 9:08 am
Speaking at the raising of the Progress Pride Flag at Bates on June 13, Professor of Politics and Associate Dean of the Faculty Stephen Engel said that "Pride is about demanding recognition [and] demanding rights."
Bates in the News: June 14, 2024
Friday, June 14, 2024 8:58 am
Bates-related media stories include insight into the recent Mount Everest tragedy by Ben Ayers '04, the retirement of legendary Maine lawmaker Sawin Millett '59, and glowing reviews of a new novel by Jessica Anthony '96.
From ‘Rugrats’ to 50th Reunion, Norton Virgien ’74 traces his career as a Hollywood animator
Thursday, June 6, 2024 10:21 am
"My career has alternated between projects that I've loved, and time looking for the next project that I'm going to love,” said Virgien, an award-winning TV and fiml animator, this year's Distinguished Alumnus in Residence and a member of the 50th Reunion class returning to Bates this weekend.
Video: At this Bates baking event, you judge a book by its edible
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 1:17 pm
In terms of its name, the Edible Books Festival doesn’t mince words: It invites the Bates community to bake and cook dishes that play off the title or theme of a well-known book.
Picture Story: Bates Commencement 2024 celebrates seniors who ‘have been tested, and have persevered’
Friday, May 31, 2024 2:35 pm
This immersive picture story captures Commencement for the Bates Class of 2024, which came in with a pandemic and went out on May 26 in high style and great happiness.
From Iraq to Bates: ‘Sometimes, it’s the detours that lead us to our true destinies’
Friday, May 31, 2024 1:00 pm
From shelling in Iraq to the shelter of Bates, Mohammed Shwani '24 was able to find a public platform during Commencement Week to thank his parents and Bates for helping him achieve his dreams.
Try not to let the success treadmill ‘obscure the actual living of life,’ Bates seniors told at 158th Commencement
Sunday, May 26, 2024 2:32 pm
One of the nation’s foremost journalists, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, offered three pieces of life advice to the Class of 2024: Be wary of when success becomes a non-stop treadmill, remember much of life depends on what we choose to see, and hold tight to those lifelong friendships forged at Bates.