Stories about "STEM"
A Bates professor and Lewiston educators team up to show the power of fun and games in math education

Thursday, January 11, 2024 10:42 am

It's all fun and games until someone learns something. That was the idea when Lewiston educators teamed up with Bates math professor Meredith Greer to introduce the fun of robots to her First-Year Seminar.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Katy Ott teaches “Mathematics for Justice" course in Carnegie 339 on Thursday, Sept. 28, at 1:10 p.m. MATH 233 - Mathematics for Social Justice This course teaches quantitative literacy, critical thinking and problem solving skills in a socially relevant context. Students use mathematics as a powerful analytic framework for understanding and developing realistic solutions to issues of social, political, and economic justice. The overarching goal of this course is for students to develop the ability and inclination to use mathematics to understand, and improve, the world around them. Prerequisite(s): MATH 106. Recommended background: MATH 205.
In Katy Ott’s math classroom, stress = low and learning = high. Here’s her winning equation

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 8:18 am

An innovative and inclusive teacher, Ott received the 2023 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching for helping students be "the best version” of themselves.

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.

Meet the Bonney Science Center Places and Faces (No. 7): Four scientists who are opportunistic, chemiluminescent, continuity-minded, and nosey

Monday, May 16, 2022 2:07 pm

Our final installment of a series profiling the folks who work in the college's new Bonney Science Center: Four scientists who are opportunistic, chemiluminescent, continuity-minded, and nosey.

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.

Group portrait of Consigli management team with holiday wreath taken on December 5, 2019.Drone imagery created by Senior Academic Technology Consultant and Manager of the Digital Media Studios Michelle Holbrook-Pronovost.
Campus Construction Update: Dec. 13, 2019

Thursday, December 12, 2019 4:32 pm

A wall of concrete forms has risen at the Bonney Science Center — a wall of forms that will form a wall.

Jim Weissman '84, Chief Business Officer at Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is establishing a scholarship in honor of tCharles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Tom Wenzel, who is teaching for his last year in 2019-20. The scholarship fund will benefit summer research opportunities, an area that Tom, when asked, would like to see funded through philanthropy. Jim was one of Tom's thesis students whose work was subsequently published.Also in the photographs, posed in laboratories in Dana Chemistry, are Kyoko Weissman, Jim's wife and Associate Professor of Chemistry Matt Côté along with the following chemistry students:Jake O' Hara '21 in green, Shanzeh Rauf '21 in purple, Maddie Murphy '20 in stripes, Owen Bailey '22 in stripes, and Nick Jones /20 in red.
A national award and Bates tribute to legendary chemistry professor Thomas Wenzel

Thursday, November 14, 2019 8:30 am

A former student established — and named for Wenzel — a new endowed fund to support student summer research.

$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.

Look What We Found: Andrew Kennedy’s Compound Microscope

Tuesday, October 24, 2017 5:40 pm

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Andrew Kennedy has a microscope in his Dana…

Video: Alex Gogliettino ’17 learns to think like a scientist

Thursday, May 18, 2017 6:07 pm

In our latest "Voices From the Class of 2017," Alex Gogliettino '17 talks about the close relationship with his Bates faculty mentors.