Stories about "News and politics"
Professor of Politics Áslaug Ásgeirsdóttir returns to her Icelandic homeland to lead the University of Akureyri
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 4:00 am
After 23 years helping Bates students on their educational journeys, Ásgeirsdóttir will become rector (or president) of the University of Akureyri in Iceland on July 1, 2024.
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."
What It Took: Love led Anthony Phillips ’10 to ask, ‘How can we make other people’s lives better?’
Thursday, April 4, 2024 10:00 am
For Anthony Phillips, what it took to find a life journey worth pursuing was the love, resolve, and faith his mother and grandmother passed on to him. Their example led him to the community-focused work he’s now doing as an elected member of the Philadelphia City Council.
13 insights about the 2022 midterms from Bates politics professors
Friday, November 18, 2022 12:56 pm
What the pundits got wrong, why a new same-sex marriage law doesn't make constitutional sense, and why election denying isn't a strong strategy;.
Bates economist’s new research sees a shift in what young Americans want from the federal government
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 9:14 am
As they’ve experienced the pandemic young American voters have shifting notions of what they want from the federal government, according to new research co-authored by Bates Associate Professor of Economics Sandra Goff. But just what they want remains to be seen.
How Bates students and faculty seek to ‘move the needle’ on economics gender gap
Friday, May 20, 2022 1:37 pm
A visit by White House economist Cecilia Rouse underscores work by Bates economics students and faculty to bring women into a historically male-dominated field.
From Ed Muskie ’36 to Angus King, the desk of the senators from Maine remains the same
Friday, April 1, 2022 1:16 pm
How the legacy of a piece of office furniture mirrors the responsibilities of representing Maine in Washington, DC.
10 insights into the Russian invasion of Ukraine from Bates professors
Friday, March 11, 2022 2:20 pm
What does Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake have to do with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? That and other answers from Bates faculty members with expertise in the issues at play in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Not so fast with the ‘time for unity’ calls, say Bates scholars
Friday, January 22, 2021 12:25 pm
Recovering our damaged democracy does not “come through any blind call for unity." Plus, the events of Jan. 6 may, in fact, be who we really are.
Video: Vanessa Paolella ’21 and guiding the student newspaper during crisis
Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:40 pm
In a time of crisis, a college newspaper can do more than inform, says Paolella, editor-in-chief of The Bates Student. "It keeps the community together."