On a balmy Friday morning in mid-July, a research team of five from Bates scrambled across the slippery rocks of Cape Neddick, searching the rockweed-coated landscape for the shiny, dark, ...

In the year leading up to the 50th Reunion, the 50th Reunion Yearbook Committee compiles cherished memories and life updates from the class. This unique publication fosters connections before Reunion ...

As the academic year drew to a close, the Harward Center for Community Partnerships celebrated the strength of the college’s engagement with the Lewiston–Auburn community with a string of grants and ...

In her three years at Bates, Willa Laski ’26 of Bellevue, Idaho, has never once dressed up for classes, but on May 21, the economics major showed up for a test clad in navy blue suiting from head to ...

At Bates’ 159th Commencement on Sunday, May 25, Commencement speaker Angela Duckworth began her address with one simple request to members of the audience: to take out their phones and hand them to ...

Bates will shift its endowment management to the full-service investment firm Investure, effective March 1, 2025, Bates President Garry W. Jenkins announced. “The decision to partner with Investure ...

Bates College recently announced appointments of nine faculty members to endowed professorships. “Endowed professorships at Bates are a testament to the high aspirations of Bates donors and a powerful ...

On Wednesday afternoon, just as Kamala Harris began her concession speech at Howard University, three Bates politics professors talked about the various outcomes and implications of Tuesday’s election ...

The vote by the Bates faculty, 40 years ago in the Filene Room in Pettigrew Hall, wasn’t even close: 58–27 in favor of making the submission of SAT scores optional for admission. It was the vote heard ...

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“Bates continues to recruit successfully and broadly both in the U.S. and internationally, and the Bates message continues to resonate everywhere we go,” said Leigh Weisenburger, vice president for ...

The senior seminar and thesis experiences in the mathematics major at Bates College highlight mathematical research, presentation, writing, and group collaboration. We see these in many ways as ...