Stories about "Bates values"
Video: Making bread and breaking bread
Friday, January 19, 2024 11:13 am
To the sounds of a few Grateful Dead songs, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Tyler Harper led a MLK Day bread-making workshop that ofers “a return to older and more ancestral food traditions."
Bates MLK Day keynote: Food justice is ‘one of the most important movements of the 21st century’
Friday, January 19, 2024 8:37 am
MLK Day keynote Bryant Terry, an artist, author, chef, and activist, says Martin Luther King Jr's fight against food apartheid is still relevant today.
A Bates professor and Lewiston educators team up to show the power of fun and games in math education
Thursday, January 11, 2024 10:42 am
It's all fun and games until someone learns something. That was the idea when Lewiston educators teamed up with Bates math professor Meredith Greer to introduce the fun of robots to her First-Year Seminar.
‘Food Justice’ is on the menu for 2024 MLK Day at Bates
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 4:43 pm
This year’s keynote promises stirring words — and more. Noted author, food justice activist, and James Beard Award-winning chef Bryant Terry plans to stir up a vegan dish featured in one of his acclaimed cookbooks.
Bates faculty member Kati Vecsey helps give voice to a fellow Hungarian’s right-to-die case
Thursday, November 16, 2023 11:33 am
Dániel Karsai, a Hungarian human rights lawyer, has ALS and wants the right to die with dignity. Vecsey, a Bates faculty member and voice expert, is helping him voice his case before the European Court for Human Rights, Nov. 27–28.
Slideshow: Plastic-bag swan, name-tag kilt, and cardboard giant on stilts elevate the Trashion Show
Thursday, November 16, 2023 5:00 am
See Bates students on the Trashion runway in fashions crafted from cardboard boxes, name tags, plastic bags, transit cards, zero-balance gift cards, face masks, newspapers, paper banners, bubble wrap, sticky notes, and paperback book pages.
Video: Behind the scenes at Bates volleyball’s sportrait session
Friday, October 6, 2023 12:50 pm
The volleyball team gathered for their team and individual marketing photos, known as “sportraits,” and had some fun along the way.
For Bates students, a trip to the Appalachian Trail is a trip back in time
Friday, October 6, 2023 9:32 am
During Orientation, a group of first-year Bates students paid a visit to…
(Off-)Campus Construction Update: Sept. 28, 2023
Thursday, September 28, 2023 3:14 pm
After about a year of construction, the juice has started to flow from a solar array of nearly 18,500 photovoltaic panels that Bates established in the Maine town of Skowhegan.
Cool, comfortable, and connected to Bates: AESOP delivers its promise to the Class of 2027
Thursday, September 21, 2023 11:42 am
Outdoor orientation trips are not unique to Bates, nor are they new. But in recent years, more has been done make the beloved Bates program, AESOP, more welcoming to all students.