Jay Burns

As the editorial director for the Bates Communications Office, Jay guides Bates Magazine and BatesNews.

jburns@bates.edu

Stories by Jay Burns
Q&A: ‘It’s a skill’ — Lindsey Hamilton ’05 explains the ins and outs of inclusive teaching and learning

Friday, November 18, 2022 11:32 am

A nationally regarded expert in the field of inclusive teaching, Hamilton is the inaugural director of the college’s new Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning. "The field of teaching is backed up with scholarship and evidence just like any other discipline. We can improve it but we just have to do things that we know work.”

From a Distance: What can you see in the bike garage on Frye Street?

Friday, November 11, 2022 2:06 pm

This interactive photograph depicts the goings-on at the bike garage on Frye Street.

Geoff LivingstonFollowYou Will Not Silence UsScenes from anti-Trump pro-Democracy protests in Washington DC on November 4.
Bates economist’s new research sees a shift in what young Americans want from the federal government

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 9:14 am

As they’ve experienced the pandemic young American voters have shifting notions of what they want from the federal government, according to new research co-authored by Bates Associate Professor of Economics Sandra Goff. But just what they want remains to be seen.

Audio: Hear the powerful voice of Edmund Muskie ’36, who launched the Clean Water Act 50 years ago

Friday, October 14, 2022 9:55 am

On the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, a selection of audio clips featuring the compelling and powerful voice of Sen. Edmund Muskie '36, each explained by Bates Director of Debate Jan Hovden.

Say What? Bates quotes from here and there: Oct. 7, 2022

Friday, October 7, 2022 1:00 pm

What the lefthanded tennis player said plus other quotes in our latest roundup of what Bates folks are saying about this and that.

From Bates History: World War II flag, women’s sports pin, ash tray (what’s that?)

Friday, September 30, 2022 12:09 pm

Here's another selection of item from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Librarythat tell stories about Bates' past.

Seven inventive door stops on move-in day for the Class of 2026

Friday, September 23, 2022 1:56 pm

Since Bates doors aren't made to be propped open, students have to be inventive on Propped Door Day — err, move-in day.

Video: Why this Canadian Football League kicker was practicing on Garcelon Field

Friday, September 2, 2022 2:35 pm

A kicker for the CFL's Saskatchewan Rough Riders explains what he's doing at Garcelon Field on an August day.

Welcome, and welcome back, to BatesNews for 2022–23

Friday, August 26, 2022 3:07 pm

A special welcome to parents, students, and families of the incoming Class of 2026, who are receiving BatesNews for the first time.

A “fruit-full” summer internship can look like…Eli Boesch-Dining ’23 is an environmental studies major from Concord, N.H., and he’s working as a Purposeful Work summer intern at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association in Unity, Maine.Part of his @mofga job looks a little like this: thinning fruit in the apple trees, of which the orchard is home to over 340 varieties.Under the watchful eye of Laura Sieger, MOFGA’s orchard coordinator, Boesch-Dining determines which unripe fruits to cut from the branches, which helps alleviate pest problems like apple maggots and apple tree borers, and helps the tree determine which fruits should get more auxin, a phytohormone for fruit development.“This is only my second or third day thinning apples, so I'm by no means an expert,” says Boesch-Dining. “I think leaving one every eight inches or so is what we do.”
Bates has talent: Facts, trends, and mad skills of the Class of 2026

Friday, August 26, 2022 1:09 pm

Need your car cleaned up? Some seafood? A game of chess? We've got a first-year Bates student for you.

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