Stories from 2014
Campus Construction Update: Oct. 30, 2014

Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:45 pm

Campus construction work will result in the closure of three side streets off Campus Avenue from Nov. 3-11.

Vice President for Information and Library Services Eugene Wiemers to retire

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 10:00 am

Wiemers built an "integrated library and information services organization [that is] regarded as a national model among liberal arts colleges," said President Spencer.

Keys to effective thinking on tap in Sampson Lecture

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 2:42 pm

Michael Starbird, a mathematician who has given hundreds of lectures and dozens of workshops on effective teaching and effective thinking, offers a lecture on effective thinking on Oct. 30.

Play-within-a-play offers absurdist look at ‘Hedda Gabler’

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 9:17 am

Bates College presents "The Summer in Gossensass," a meta-theatrical comedy about the first English-language production of "Hedda Gabler," from Oct. 30-Nov. 3.

Icona Pop shown backstage at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg in 2013: Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo. (Fredrik Etoall)
You’ll love it! Campus Consciousness Tour brings Icona Pop to Bates

Monday, October 27, 2014 4:29 pm

As part of a environmental consciousness-raising tour, Icona Pop, the Swedish pop duo known for the smash hit "I Love It" is bound for a Bates College performance on Nov. 1.

Dead clams talking: $337,000 grant supports clamshell-climate research

Monday, October 27, 2014 1:31 pm

An oceanographer and a geologist at Bates have received a National Science Foundation grant to create a 1,000-year record of changing sea and climate conditions in the Norwegian Arctic.

As Chick Leahey’s jersey number is retired, 11 things to know about the great Bates coach and man

Friday, October 24, 2014 12:00 pm

At halftime of tomorrow's Homecoming football game, Bates will retire the No. 11 baseball jersey worn by William "Chick" Leahey ’52 during his 36 years as head coach.

Slideshow: Purposeful Work (and play) at this year’s Parents & Family Weekend

Friday, October 24, 2014 12:00 pm

This year's Parents & Family Weekend welcomed a record 1,800 guests, who got up to speed on Bates doings, including the Purposeful Work Initiative

Bates welcomes new faculty: Brett Huggett, biology

Friday, October 24, 2014 10:51 am

New at Bates as an assistant professor of biology, Brett Huggett specializes in how trees response to environmental stress.

President and Dean of Students meet with students about changes in student life

Thursday, October 23, 2014 4:24 pm

Bates President Clayton Spencer and Vice President for Student Life and Dean…

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