Stories about "Collaboration"
A day in the life of a ‘heluva building,’ Ladd Library at Bates College

Friday, April 11, 2025 10:16 am

A full day inside Bates College's Ladd Library — March 12, 2025 — reveals the quiet, the buzz, and the people who bring it to life.

Bates’ newest major, digital and computational studies, blends computer science with critique, community engagement

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 2:09 pm

Barry Lawson is a Bates computer science professor who chairs the Program…

Skills-focused ‘Tuck Business Essentials’ joins the course offerings for 2025 Short Term at Bates 

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 5:49 pm

For Bates students curious about the business world comes a Practitioner-Taught Course taught by faculty from the Tuck School of Business and led by Peter Friedman ’92, a Tuck graduate and the new course’s practitioner-in-residence.

Drone photography operated and captured by Theophil Syslo on October 10, 2024. (Theophil Syslo | Bates College)
Bates College to team with QuestBridge to enhance access and experience for low-income students

Thursday, January 23, 2025 8:33 am

Bates College today announced a new partnership with QuestBridge, a national nonprofit that connects high-achieving students from low-income backgrounds with leading institutions of higher education.

dressed up woman voting in a very showy way
Takeaways after the 2024 U.S. election from three Bates politics professors

Friday, November 8, 2024 1:23 pm

John Baughman, Stephen Engel, and Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz offers insights into the outcomes and implications of Tuesday’s election, including Donald Trump's convincing victory and a TBD Congressional win for a Bates alumnus in Trump territory.

A visit to the Looking Ahead Clubhouse in Lewiston by the Gather Hear Tour by pianist Miki Sawada (seen at the piano). Looking Ahead is a program for adults with mental illness based on the Clubhouse Model of Rehabilitation. Jahan Baker-Wainwright ’25 (blue crewneck sweater), a biochemistry major from Cottage Grove, Wis., performed Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata, op. 13, the third movement, on the piano. Assistant Professor of Music Zen Kuriyama (down coat) sang Franz Schubert’s “Der Doppelgänger” and “An die Musik,” accompanied by Miki Sawada on piano. Marrich Somridhivej ’26 (quilted pullover), a biology major from South Windsor, Conn., performed Amy Beach’s “Summer Dreams,” op. 47, no. 2 and 3, with Miki Sawada on the piano (four hand). Chiharu Naruse (glasses, black coat), Bates piano teacher, collaborative pianist, is seen at the picnic table and as a page-turner when the wind came up.
At a Lewiston clubhouse, a musical performance that’s ‘less about perfection, and more about connecting’

Friday, November 1, 2024 1:24 pm

Two Bates students and a newly appointed professor of music helped to bring the soothing beauty of music, through piano and voice, to an audience at the Looking Ahead Clubhouse, a vocational center in Lewiston for adults living with mental illness.

Bates at Night: Into the Den for Election Trivia Night

Friday, October 25, 2024 9:40 am

Election Trivia Night, co-hosted by professors Stephen Engel and Stephanie Kelley-Romano in the Den on Oct. 9, offered students a low-stakes way to talk about presidential politics.

An architect of major academic innovations at Bates, Dean of the Faculty Malcolm Hill to step down in June 2025 to return to the faculty

Friday, September 13, 2024 12:11 pm

Hill’s contributions are highlighted by equity-driven initiatives to support both students and faculty for greater success.

Moments from the Annual OIE Welcome Reception in Chase Hall on September 5, 2024. From left: Ayman Muhidin ‘27, of Tanzania, Zain (not pictured), unknown, Halima Guliye ‘27, of Kenya, and Sakina Saidi ‘26, of Afghanistan, Brandon Villalta Lopez ‘25, of Nicaragua, and Xucheng Zheng ‘27, of China. (Theophil Syslo | Bates College) OIE Welcome Reception is a way to begin the academic year in community with colleagues across campus who are long-time friends of the OIE and/or new to campus and want to be a part of building community and connective support for underrepresented racial, ethnic, LGBTQIA+, first-generation-to-college, and international Bates students. We offer this event annually and it has been a great way to ensure that all in attendance receive the message that we are ready and excited to engage with others across campus to provide a meaningful experience for each student who chooses to interact with us.
From A to Z, here’s what’s new at Bates in 2024–25

Friday, September 6, 2024 9:52 am

To help the Bates community get up to speed, here's a A to Z list of what’s new for 2024–25, including a new striker for the Hathorn bell, new light poles at Russell Street Field, and a new name for a community center that got its start 32 years ago.

Faculty in the News: Joe Hall corrects and deepens the Native, pre-colonist history of two Maine downtown landmarks

Friday, August 23, 2024 11:41 am

History professor Joe Hall uses his faculty expertise to help deepen the historical record about how two landmarks in Brunswick, Maine, came to be.

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