Stories from 2012
Bates in Brief College: Cost symposium takeaways
Friday, June 15, 2012 12:00 am
Experts gathered at Bates in fall 2011 to debunk the conventional wisdom that college costs are out of control.
Bates in Brief Students: Romina Istratii’s Watson, unkempt rooms, what students want
Friday, June 15, 2012 12:00 am
Cultivating Female Farmers Romina Istratii ’12 of Athens, Greece, will use a…
Bates in Brief Campus: Chase Hall’s makeover
Friday, June 15, 2012 12:00 am
Thanks to Interim President Nancy Cable, Chase Hall will once again feel the rattle and hum of abundant student energy.
Obituaries: Spring 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012 12:00 am
Edited by Christine Terp Madsen ’73 1932 Katherine Ilene LaMontagne June 25,…
Spencer: Liberal arts colleges face tough times, but Bates is ready
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 9:31 am
"How do we think about Bates and places like Bates in the context of this challenging world?" asked President-elect Clayton Spencer during the annual Reunion Address on June 8
Alumni Legacy Program helps next crop of college searchers
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 3:26 pm
The inaugural program helps Bates alums and children through the roller coaster ride of the college search.
Trading piano for pen, Glazer releases book
Friday, June 8, 2012 3:35 pm
Famed pianist Frank Glazer trades piano for pen with "Philosophy of Artistic Performance."
For alumni children, graduation is a story with a new ending
Thursday, June 7, 2012 12:47 pm
At Commencement, alumni and their graduating children talk about the ever-stronger "Bates vibe."
Good heavens! Museum of Art offers one of the first major exhibitions of astrophotography
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 3:49 pm
The headlining exhibition at the Museum of Art this summer, "Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography" is among the first major exhibitions examining astrophotography as an art genre.
In NAACP project, students get fresh lesson in value of old papers
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 12:44 pm
Thanks to a two-year collaboration among the Portland branch of the NAACP, the University of Southern Maine and Bates, valuable papers of the Portland branch are being made accessible to researchers and the public for the first time.