Jul. 1, 2009: The Lewiston-Auburn based jazz band Three Point Trio opens the 2009 Bates College Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 9, in the Florence Keigwin Amphitheater at the college's Lake Andrews. Read more ...

Jun. 26, 2009: Bates College President Elaine Tuttle Hansen has been honored as an outstanding alumna educator by the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association. Read more ...

Jun. 25, 2009: Bates ranked 57th out of the 310 NCAA Division III schools that scored points, as the final standings of the 2008-09 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup were released by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA). It is Bates' highest final standing in the rankings since 2006. Read more ...

Jun. 25, 2009: Daniel Berman '08 has "leaped into the global headlines" with a co-authored article pointing out evidence of election irregularities in Iran. Read more ...

Jun. 9, 2009: Opening June 12 at the Bates College Museum of Art are exhibitions of work by two prominent artists with Maine connections, and a third exhibition revealing a compelling response to HIV/AIDS. The exhibition "Medium and Abstraction" explores influences at work in the wood reliefs of the late, beloved Maine artist Bernard Langlais. Rarely seen images by a pioneer in American modern art are displayed in "Landscape Drawings from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection." Read more ...