Stories about "Awards"
Six alumni recognized for contributions to Bates and wider world during Reunion 2024
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 4:16 pm
Six alumni received awards for their contributions to Bates and to the wider world during the Annual Gathering of the Bates College Alumni Association on June 8 during Reunion.
Bates announces five new Fulbright Student awards for 2024–25
Thursday, May 23, 2024 1:00 pm
Bates announces five new Fulbright Student awards for teaching and research in Cyprus, Bulgaria, Taiwan, Thailand, and Norway in 2024–25.
Bobcat Ventures pitch competition awards $15,000 in prizes to three student entrepreneurs
Friday, May 17, 2024 11:38 am
Do you need to reduce stress by organizing your time? Or perhaps you’re craving a non-alcoholic drink? Or you're keen on supporting college aspirations? If so, this year’s student winners of the Bobcat Ventures pitch competition have you covered.
New to Bates, it’s the CATSBYS and six amazing sports moments in 2023–24
Friday, May 10, 2024 1:04 pm
Bates Athletics debuted its new awards program, “the CATSBYS” (think ESPN's "Espys," with a smidge of F. Scott Fitzgerald), and put a few defining Bobcat moments from 2023–24 on center stage.
Emily Scarrow ’25, a Bates student who ‘doesn’t see any limits,’ earns Goldwater Scholarship
Thursday, May 2, 2024 10:43 am
Scarrow, who overcame a major health scare at Bates, will use the scholarship award to fund her research aspirations in medicine.
Bates professor Sonja Pieck authors award-winning book about German conservation, memory, and wounded land
Friday, April 19, 2024 4:30 pm
Sonja Pieck’s book "Mnemonic Ecologies," about the once-militarized inner German border becoming a Green Belt, tells a story of how "something healing could come out of the pain."
Bates professor lands $415,000 grant to research ‘dramatically understudied’ protein that could be involved in major neurological conditions
Friday, January 26, 2024 5:00 am
The National Institute of Health grant will fund research by Martin Kruse that seeks to learn if a not-well-understood cellular protein plays a role in neurological conditions like epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease.
Legendary Bates chemistry professor Tom Wenzel named one of the top science educators of the past 10 years
Friday, December 15, 2023 9:55 am
Legendary Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Tom Wenzel, who was recognized as a pioneer for teaching undergraduates through active learning, is named one of the nation’s top science educators.
In Katy Ott’s math classroom, stress = low and learning = high. Here’s her winning equation
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 8:18 am
An innovative and inclusive teacher, Ott received the 2023 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching for helping students be "the best version” of themselves.
Bates College honored for excellence of its First-Year Experience program
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 5:22 am
Revamped in 2020, the Bates program that introduces first-year students to the college was honored by a leading national association for student affairs professionals.