Jay Burns
As the editorial director for the Bates Communications Office, Jay guides Bates Magazine and BatesNews.
Stories by Jay Burns
Bates in the News: Jan. 13, 2017
Friday, January 13, 2017 11:19 am
The Washington Post reports how Tim Ohashi '11 idolized the Washington Capitals as a kid and now he's on the NHL's team's coaching staff. How'd that happen?
Trust and respect propels Bates to finals of World Universities Debate Championships
Friday, January 6, 2017 1:10 pm
Bates’ latest world-class debate team, of Zoë Seaman-Grant ’17 and Matt Davis ’18, made it to the final four of the World Universities Debating Championships in The Hague, Netherlands.
Q&A: Marcus Bruce ’77 on Benjamin Mays, MLK, and the ongoing struggle for emancipation
Friday, January 6, 2017 12:50 pm
Bruce, the college's Benjamin Mays Professor, explains why Mays — Class of 1920, great 20th-century civil rights leader, and mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. — offers hope for "a new birth of freedom."
What’s in a Lewiston name: Lown
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 12:03 pm
The area's southernmost bridge across the Androscoggin River was named for Lewiston son Dr. Bernard Lown in 2008.
Hop aboard your own toboggan ride through the Bates campus
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 11:07 am
This year's traditional holiday greeting from Bates is a wild, 360 video animation ride through campus. Look around as you zoom along!
Picture story: On the sidelines with Michael Rocque, faculty football liaison
Friday, December 16, 2016 12:05 pm
When a player goes down, "It’s not just, ‘Oh, there’s a player on the team who got hurt,’" says Rocque, an assistant professor of sociology. "It’s one of your students."
NESCAC Chill Poll for Dec. 16, 2016
Friday, December 16, 2016 11:34 am
Which campus is coldest in the 'CAC on this chilly Northeast day?
A year in Turkey teaches Doug Van Hoewyk ’98 to ‘maintain poise during stress’
Thursday, December 15, 2016 10:35 am
A Fulbright Scholar in Turkey last year, biologist Van Hoewyk '98 and his family decided to stay despite the danger.
Bates in the News: Dec. 9, 2016
Thursday, December 8, 2016 4:27 pm
Bates College stands firmly by the DACA program, says President Spencer. Plus, Jason Castro is a "Scientist to Watch" and New York Times reviews an alum as a hip-hop Othello.
Maine aquafarmer Matt Moretti ’06 flexes his mussels on Casco Bay
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 10:44 am
Moretti's love for the ocean was "undefined" for a long time. That was before his time in Mo’orea. And before he found a Maine mussel farm for sale.