the Bates News team
As the editorial director for the Bates Communications Office, Jay guides Bates Magazine and BatesNews.
Stories by the Bates News team
Welcome (and welcome back) to BatesNews for 2018–19
Friday, August 3, 2018 1:06 pm
Welcome back to BatesNews, and a special welcome to parents and students of the incoming Class of 2022.
Recalling the 1998 restoration of Lake Andrews
Thursday, July 19, 2018 12:37 pm
Twenty years ago this summer, Bates began a major restoration of the Lake Andrews area. Learn what they found in the pond, and learn who got stuck in the muck.
To the victors: How NHL champion Tim Ohashi ’11 spent his day with the Stanley Cup
Thursday, July 5, 2018 3:40 pm
“It makes people smile,” says Ohashi, a member of the champion Washington Capitals coaching staff, summing up the swell day spent with the famed Stanley Cup.
Bates wins $1 million grant for equity-driven STEM innovations
Thursday, July 5, 2018 9:23 am
The grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will fund the transformation of STEM culture at Bates to fully support all students in the sciences.
Bates alumna Amelia Wilhelm wins nomination for NCAA Woman of the Year
Thursday, June 28, 2018 3:03 pm
A Bates rower, Wilhelm is praised as thoughtful, positive, and exceptionally gifted as a chemistry honors major who conducted Lyme disease research.
What’s in a Name: Tree Streets
Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:36 pm
The downtown Lewiston neighborhood where streets have names like Oak and Maple is dubbed “the tree streets.”
Web Harrison ’63, longtime coach who inspired students with a fusion of Bates ideals and practical Marine Corps values, dies at age 78
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 11:33 am
A revered football and lacrosse coach from the 1970s into the 1990s, Harrison gave his players a way to live life with integrity and purpose.
College search advice, practical and heartening, from Bates admission experts
Friday, June 15, 2018 10:43 am
From big-picture goal setting to the do's and don'ts of the college essay, three Bates experts offer advice for the college search.
Video: A student’s love letter to Short Term
Friday, June 8, 2018 1:27 pm
In a short film, Durotimi Akinkugbe '18 shares the myriad ways that Short Term delights the collective Bates soul.
Theodore Walther, a Bates ‘professor and friend’ for parts of six decades, dies at age 88
Thursday, June 7, 2018 2:21 pm
Walther traversed his long tenure with a New Yorker’s bemusement, leavened by a Navy sailor’s equanimity and undergirded by devotion to his students.