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Bates College announces plan to become climate positive by 2030
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 10:04 am
Meeting the goals of the Bates Sustainability Roadmap will "touch and enrich our lives here on campus," said President Clayton Spencer, while also furthering the college's stated mission of "to prepare leaders with a commitment to responsible stewardship of the wider world."
10 insights into the Russian invasion of Ukraine from Bates professors
Friday, March 11, 2022 2:20 pm
What does Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake have to do with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? That and other answers from Bates faculty members with expertise in the issues at play in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Why Costco gas pump hoses are so long and other retail insights from Joel Bines ’92, author of ‘The Metail Economy’
Friday, March 11, 2022 8:35 am
“Consumers have always had agency. The difference now is that they also have power," says Joel Bines '92, author of The Metail Economy.
Stella James Sims was Bates’ first female Black graduate, but there’s so much more to her story
Thursday, February 3, 2022 1:16 pm
A look at the life of Stella James Sims, Bates Class of 1897, who, as a science teacher helped to strengthen the reputation of a historically Black college in West Virginia.
NESCAC Snow Poll: 24 inches is a Jumbo-sized blizzard
Wednesday, February 2, 2022 1:13 pm
What NESCAC campus got the most snow on Jan. 29? Where does "blizzard" come from? Answers to those questions, and more.
Sitting with Desmond Tutu on Bates Commencement day
Thursday, January 27, 2022 11:54 am
Trish Morse '60 recalls Commencement 2000, sitting with Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the Coram Terrace, watching the academic procession arrive, and talking — a conversation she recalls often, particularly after learning of his death in December.
NESCAC Chill Poll for Jan. 22: 19 below zero is really cold, but was the cold real?
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 3:38 pm
As dawn broke on Jan. 22, the summit of Mount Washington, famed for its intense winter weather, was warmer than six campuses in the 'CAC.
Voices from MLK Day: ‘We are finished sitting quietly, insisting on the possibility of change’
Friday, January 21, 2022 11:44 am
Five speakers on MLK Day at Bates, Maine-based thinkers, practitioners, and activists, offered personal narratives and insights that vividly captured the day's theme, "What I Mean When I Say: Decolonization and Liberation."
Sociologist Ken Kolb ’98: Well-intentioned efforts to fix food deserts are ‘flawed’ and miss the point
Thursday, January 20, 2022 9:44 am
Access to better food is championed by the foodie movement, says Furman University sociology professor Ken Kolb '98, but "there's really no evidence that increasing access will actually change the way people eat."
Bates announces MLK Day 2022 events
Thursday, January 13, 2022 12:05 pm
It's a term you may have heard — "decolonization" — without fully grasping its meaning or relevance. If that's true for you, then welcome to Bates' 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance.