Jay Burns
As the editorial director for the Bates Communications Office, Jay guides Bates Magazine and BatesNews.
Stories by Jay Burns
18 items in the Library’s Lost and Found on Dec. 17, 2020
Friday, December 18, 2020 11:30 am
Much has changed during the pandemic. What hasn't: Students still lose things in Ladd Library.
Here’s what the NASA astronaut said to the Bates sophomore STEM students
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:36 pm
NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara joined a sophomore science class as part of program that seeks to disrupt the "weed-out" approach to STEM education.
Oh Henry! Bill Henry ’85 wins editing Emmy for HBO’s ‘Succession’
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 10:20 am
Henry has seen the film industry’s shift from “100 years on acetate film to a completely digital medium.”
Bates in the News: Dec. 4, 2020
Friday, December 4, 2020 11:45 am
The media seek out Bates folks for stories about shipwrecks, the Gomes Chapel, urban gardening, and mentoring
Bates Dining Services keeps the magic alive ‘until we can dine together again’
Friday, November 20, 2020 10:17 am
In big and small ways during trying times, Bates Dining Services works to sustain what students love about Bates dining.
13 post-election faculty insights: grift, con, and a dangerous game being played with our democracy
Friday, November 13, 2020 11:59 am
Five members of the politics department offer a 11 post-election insights, including whether Trump’s refusal to concede threatens “even a most minimalist definition of democracy.”
Notorious (but harmless) pathogens preserved in Bates professor’s new-found World War I slides
Friday, November 13, 2020 11:13 am
A trove of wartime microscope slides include specimens of gonorrhea, diphtheria, tuberculosis, meningitis.
NESCAC Heat Poll for Nov. 7–10: Heat Miser’s revenge
Thursday, November 12, 2020 9:24 am
Back off, Snow Miser! Turns out that Heat Miser still has something…
A ‘status quo election,’ say Bates professors — with disappointments, surprises, lessons
Friday, November 6, 2020 10:52 am
Regardless of who ends up in the White House, the 2020 election may have "revealed who we are as a country.”
Say What? Bates quotes from here and there: Oct. 30, 2020
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 5:26 pm
An occasional roundup of what Bates folks are saying about this and that, including poignant memories of the late John Jenkins.