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The nearly 200 educators from across the country who gathered this week at Bates College for the Gordon Research Conference came to share new research on ways to make biology education more inclusive, diverse, and accessible in a setting aimed at fostering intense and intimate collaboration. From left, Gordon Research Conferences participants and biologists Madison (“Maddy”) Meuler of Allen Institute (current)/University of Washington (former), Omar Quintero of the University of Richmond, April Hill of Bates College, and Samiksha Raut of the University of Alabama at Birmingham head to lunch in Commons after a morning session in the Olin Arts Center. Hill is Bates’ Wagener family professor of equity and inclusion in STEM
Bates professors prove key players in national gathering on social justice in biology education

Thursday, June 29, 2023 10:11 am

Three Bates professors worked as key players at this week's Gordon Research Conference on equity and inclusion in STEM reflecting the school's reputation for “doing a lot of work now on how we talk about power and privilege across all majors,” said Carrie Diaz Eaton, Bates associate professor of digital and computational studies — and one of the conference’s co-chairs.

PHOTO DATE: November 05, 2018LOCATION: NBL - Pool TopsideSUBJECT: 2017 ASCAN class members Warren Hoburg and Loral O'Hara (Blue Team) during ASCAN EVQ NBL 3 training.PHOTOGRAPHER: Josh Valcarcel
Here’s what the NASA astronaut said to the Bates sophomore STEM students

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:36 pm

NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara joined a sophomore science class as part of program that seeks to disrupt the "weed-out" approach to STEM education.

Bates biologist April Hill is part of first genome sequencing of a freshwater sponge

Friday, September 25, 2020 10:42 am

However lowly, or low in the water, freshwater sponges are "biomedically relevant,” says Bates biologist April Hill "They are important organisms for us to pay attention to.”

$3 million gift endows Bates professorship in STEM equity and inclusion; April Hill named inaugural appointee

Friday, September 21, 2018 9:21 am

Hill is an eminent evolutionary developmental geneticist with a national reputation for dismantling barriers preventing students from thriving in STEM fields.