Stories about "Bates values"
Q&A: Christine McDowell unpacks her shoes
Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:00 pm
In her written greeting to visitors entering an exhibition in Lewiston, Bates theater professor Christine McDowell bares her sole.
Announcing Bobcat339: a student-invented molecule with pharmaceutical promise
Friday, October 4, 2019 11:33 am
Protected by a provisional patent filing, the molecule Bobcat339 speaks to pharmaceutical promise and how students become cutting-edge science researchers at Bates.
‘We have to take action’: Bates students, faculty join in Global Climate Strike
Friday, September 27, 2019 11:07 am
The words are right there in the Bates mission statement: a call to "informed civic action." And it played out in Portland last week as Bates students took center stage at the Global Climate Strike.
Q&A: It’s time for a new paradigm in our view of how to live, says Ethan Miller
Thursday, September 26, 2019 3:45 pm
In a 2019 book, Bates lecturer Miller calls for a fundamentally new approach to the conversation about living sustainably.
Bates College announces record $28.85 million in total gifts for fiscal 2019
Thursday, September 26, 2019 12:01 pm
Gifts to Bates, both great and small, have led to a doubling of yearly giving to the college since 2013.
My Maine Summer: Eva Meltzer Murray ’85 and trash day on Matinicus Isle
Friday, September 13, 2019 8:53 am
Twenty miles off the Maine coast on Matinicus Isle, where Eva Murray ’85 has lived for 30 years, ”if you have a problem, you gotta fix it yourself.”
My Maine Summer: Miriam Smith ’85 and a little night music by the bay
Monday, September 9, 2019 4:34 pm
“In Maine in the summer, why wouldn’t you want to hear chamber music?” wonders Miriam Smith ’85, a violinist and supporter of Salt Bay Chamberfest.
Video: Opening Day 2019, from welcoming greetings to parting hugs
Friday, September 6, 2019 11:10 am
Bates' newest students, the Class of 2023, experience Opening Day on Aug. 26, 2019.
Slideshow: Hour by hour with the Class of 2023 on Opening Day
Thursday, August 29, 2019 3:13 pm
Opening Day sets the tone for these new Bobcats. In the words of longtime dean James Reese, it's a day when the message is, "Everyone’s in!”
Arriving Monday, the Bates Class of 2023 steps into a ‘world of new connections’
Thursday, August 22, 2019 4:28 pm
Learn all about the 501-member Class of 2023, selected from the largest applicant pool in Bates history, and how they'll be welcomed on Monday.