Stories about "research"
Slideshow: See how students’ internships become life-guiding forces
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 12:30 pm
From studying the diets of sea urchins to working with Lewiston's immigrant communities, Bates students forged their way into the world this summer with Bates-funded internships.
Bates biochemist and physicist receive $373,000 for Lyme research
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 4:31 pm
A cutting-edge microscope at Bates will provide new insights — literally — into bacterial genetics.
Thesis examines seldom-studied role of motels as alternative to homelessness
Thursday, April 4, 2019 2:49 pm
Isolation, crowding, poor access to nutritious food are among challenges facing long-term motel residents, Abby Westberry ’19 finds.
Nine student projects in Lewiston-Auburn during Short Term
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 10:32 am
Working closely with community partners and Harward Center staff, 10 Bates College students are spending Short Term doing action research projects.
Video: Student athletes present their research at Mount David Summit
Friday, March 30, 2018 12:59 pm
Bates student athletes excel on the field and in the classroom. Hear from three of the more than 50 who participated in this year's Mount David Summit.
Vintage avian exhibit is a feather in Carnegie Hall’s cap
Thursday, December 17, 2015 2:21 pm
We’re in Carnegie Science Hall, peering into a display case of old stuffed birds and learning something new.
27 of the best thank-yous from Bates senior theses through the years
Thursday, November 19, 2015 8:37 am
This being Thanksgiving Week, here are the best — the most distinctive, unusual, and quirky — thank-yous offered by generations of weary, yet grateful, seniors.
As Bates-hosted C3 summit starts, Crystal Williams speaks to the imperative to diversify faculty at U.S. colleges
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 5:57 pm
When students learn from faculty who are from many backgrounds, it "opens all students to the idea of possibility — both for themselves and for others," Williams says.
Robbins ’11 is lead author of landmark paper on asexual coming-out experience
Friday, October 16, 2015 11:46 am
What started as a way for Nicolette Robbins ’11 to spend her final Short Term has become groundbreaking research on what it’s like to come out as an asexual person.
Schlax nets $345K grant to study genetic ‘switches’ central to Lyme disease
Thursday, October 15, 2015 9:58 am
Chemistry professor Paula Schlax's $250,000 grant to study the bacteria that causes Lyme disease includes support for student research.