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Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 12:50 pm

From buzzer-beaters and Broadway guests to sunlit praise on the Historic Quad, this month offered moments of joy, reflection, and renewal. With every performance, project, and passing connection, students leaned into the turning season — ready for what’s next, but fully alive to what’s now.

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Monday, March 17, 2025 12:16 pm

From screenings to snowstorms, from rituals to remembrances, we’ve taken the Bates pulse — and now we share it with you.

An incomplete 50-year history of the Puddle Jump

Friday, February 7, 2025 12:00 pm

A pictorial 50-year history of a one-of-a-kind college tradition, the Puddle Jump, with the bookend editions of 1975 and 2025 featuring the founders and 1978 classmates Chris Callahan, Scott Copeland, and Lars Llorente.

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 9:51 am

Despite the chilly temperatures, we’ve had a warm start to the winter…

Bates photographers’ favorite images of 2024

Friday, December 13, 2024 10:24 am

The Bates photographers' perspectives and talents create this surprising, imperfect and ultimately human visual presentation of what we love about our college and community.

Bates women's basketball defeats Colby 66-63 in Alumni Gym on Dec. 3, 2024.
Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 2:12 pm

The beating heart of Bates in November: a presidential election — and a rhetoric class dedicated to staging a simulated one — plus performances, athletic competitions, lectures, and community engagement.

“‘If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.’” — Physics and Geology Lecturer Gene Clough, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson on the stars, while looking at Venus in the evening sky. During the semester that he teaches “Lunar and Planetary Science,” Clough stands outside of Carnegie Science for an hour at dusk on every clear night so that interested members of the Bates community can star gaze.
Slideshow: Remembering Gene Clough, a teacher with boundless passion and curiosity

Friday, November 1, 2024 2:04 pm

Gene Clough, a Bates teacher whose passion and curiosity inspired generations of Bates students during a 38-year Bates career, died Oct. 23 at age 77.

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 12:11 pm

A beautiful and warm October provided us with joy, wonder, learning, competition, and remembrance

Moments from Community Engagement in L/A AESOP trip with AESOP leaders Mary Beth Tune and Ines Knirsch on August 31, 2024. Two people wish to not be identified, this is the person with purple pants and a red/orange jacket with backpack and student from China with tan hat and green backpack. (Theophil Syslo | Bates College)
Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Monday, September 30, 2024 12:35 pm

We could not have asked for a more beautiful — in every sense of the word — start of the academic year.

“I’m having a blast working with a student. She’s absolutely wonderful.” — Grounds and maintenance worker Ian Brownlie enjoys working with his summer colleague, Vyshu Viju ‘26 of Atlanta. The two took a break from beautifying the campus by trimming bushes, weeding, and raking mulch. “The favorite part of my summer and Short Term is working with students,” Brownlie says.
Slideshow: This Summer at Bates

Thursday, August 22, 2024 1:04 am

When it comes to this summer at Bates, life flows on — gently and purposefully, and steadily preparing for the new year to come.

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