Stories about "Voices"
Video: Essie Martin ’22, a budding scientist-activist fighting climate change, one kelp at a time
Thursday, February 10, 2022 10:08 am
One day, the little girl announced to her kindergarten teacher, “I want…
Video: Maya Benziger ’22, from hesitation to the ‘full nine yards’
Friday, January 21, 2022 9:44 am
After a year and a half of COVID-cancelled a cappella performances, Maya Benziger '22 realized there was more at stake than just singing on stage: the entire pre-pandemic Merimander experience could disappear with her graduating class, and she realized, "I didn't want that to end with me."
Video: Bridget Thompson ’22 and the rule of 100 percent effort
Friday, October 8, 2021 12:13 pm
For Bridget Thompson ’22, her time at Bates has been full of discovery, as she found her people, her passions — in the classroom and on the sports field — and her post-grad plan.
Video: For Erick Gredonia ’21, dance creates the ‘best version of myself’
Thursday, June 10, 2021 11:23 am
Motion defines dance. Yet for Gredonia, a defining dance experience at Bates was a moment of quiet stillness, tinged with despair.
Video: Bowie meets the Bard through director Deon Custard ’21
Friday, May 21, 2021 9:07 am
Custard took Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, added a dose of glam rock, and shook it all into something fresh, but also vintage, for the Bates stage.
Video: Billy Lahart ’21 will never look at 2020–21 as a loss
Thursday, May 6, 2021 1:18 pm
For Lahart, varied college endeavors have combined to create a winning whole. Bates is where "you can embrace and live out our school motto, Amore ac Studio, 'With Ardor and Devotion.'"
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."
Ariel Abonizio ’20 creates virtual-reality tours for Museum L-A
Thursday, September 3, 2020 12:13 pm
With a Purposeful Work internship available to graduating seniors this year, Abonizio worked with high-end multimedia gear to create VR tours of two major exhibitions, one on the history of child labor in Maine, the other about the Androscoggin River.
Video: Meet, see, and hear from five Bates ‘Voices of the Class of 2020’
Thursday, June 4, 2020 11:31 am
Here are the five Bates seniors we profiled for the annual "Voices of the Class" series.
Video: Sam Findlen-Golden ’20 and the unexpected joy of mathematics
Friday, February 28, 2020 11:09 am
"Math manages to work its way into a lot of places that I didn't expect," says Findlen-Golden. "It can be math in the perspective of music or through the perspective of history and education, which is a lot of what I've done here outside of academics."