Stories about "Alumni"
Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 12:25 pm

June was full of rekindling: alumni pouring onto campus for Reunion, Bates' Employee Enrichment Week, and a new outdoor gear-lending library co-founded by Hallie Herz '11 — all in This Month at Bates.

Picture Story: The Alumni Parade’s ‘grand jubilee of fun and frolic’

Friday, June 23, 2023 1:21 pm

Photography and video of the 2023 Alumni Parade, whose happy vibe has changed little since its was described as a "grand jubilee of fun and frolic" more than a century ago.

Bates College alumni honored at 155th Reunion

Monday, June 12, 2023 9:57 am

At Reunion on June 10, 2023, five alumni received awards for their contributions to Bates and to the wider world, and the football jersey of Howard Vandersea '63 was retired.

Bates in the News: June 9, 2023

Friday, June 9, 2023 5:01 am

The news media covers Bates Commencement, a professor's expertise in the ritual practice of firewalking, and alumni trying to save local journalism.

Tips to the new grads from Bates folks, including the 5th Reunion class

Thursday, June 8, 2023 11:45 pm

As the Class of 2023 launches into the world, another class —…

Bates College Board of Trustees elects two new members

Friday, May 19, 2023 12:12 pm

Pranav Ghai ’93, P’26 is an analytics professional and financial-data platform co-founder, and Marc Jaffe P’25 is an attorney specializing in corporate finance and corporate law.

Scenes from early summer on the Bates campus Hathorn Hall weathervane
Reflections from a Fulbright alumna as Bates announces seven new Fulbright Student offers for 2023-24

Friday, May 19, 2023 11:01 am

Meet Bates' seven new recipients of Fulbright Student Awards, before they set out to teach English and do research projects in six different countries.

10 new CatFacts (the Bates trivia edition) about Ultimate, risqué dancing, and yagging

Friday, May 12, 2023 12:43 pm

This edition of CatFacts, our second, tilts toward the trivial. But where else are you going to learn what “yagging” is? 

Meet the 98-year-old namesake of Bates’ newest rowing shell

Friday, May 5, 2023 1:47 pm

Bates' newest boat is named for a nonagenarian alumnus who is a World War II combat veteran and beloved member of the Bates and Lewiston-Auburn communities.

For her senior thesis, Margaret Pickoff '13 (shown here with geology major David Harning '13 at salt marsh at Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area) is studying carbon storage in Maine salt marshes. Salt marshes are one of the most abused ecosystems on the planet; they have been and continue to be drained and converted into agricultural land, fish ponds, and coastal housing developments despite their ecological importance. My research is part of a greater project that is attempting to quantify the amount of "blue carbon", or carbon stored in marine vegetation, in salt marshes, which recent literature suggests is quite substantial. I'm hoping that my research will help to emphasize this critical function of marsh ecosystems, as global climate change and sea level rise continue to threaten the health of the planet. A major part of my field work is taking cores of marsh peat from the Sprague River Marsh at BMMCA, as well as several other Maine salt marshes. I take samples from many of the cores to be analyzed in the Environmental Geochemistry Lab at Bates. A variety of tests are run on the peat samples to determine what percentage of organic carbon is contained in the peat, and this value can be extrapolated upon to determine how much carbon the entire marsh is storing. It's hard to write briefly about my thesis project (I think that's a good sign..). Thanks again for coming out to take photos, and I apologize for not getting this to you sooner!
Bates in the News: April 21, 2023

Friday, April 21, 2023 3:36 pm

Bates experts talk about climate and Maine; an innovative database for pancreatic research; and a children's picture book about a lost lamb, and more in this month's Bates in the News.

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