Stories about "Maine/world"
Video: Jesse Saffeir ’20 and lines of poetry sparked by lines through nature
Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:06 pm
An Otis Fellowship summer of hiking alongside power lines produced a new understanding of our place in the world — and a book of poems.
Dinner on the farm with poet and essayist Ross Gay
Friday, November 8, 2019 1:16 pm
Environmental studies major Alex Cullen '20 writes about a conversation-rich dinner, with faculty and students, at nearby Nezinscot Farm to honor and welcome this year's Otis Lecturer.
What’s in a Bates Name: Libbey
Friday, November 8, 2019 11:15 am
Dedicated 110 years ago, Libbey Forum was donated to Bates by Lewiston mill owner and entrepreneur W. Scott Libbey.
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.
Video: A first-gen student from Maine, Ryan Lizanecz ’20 found a home at Bates
Thursday, October 10, 2019 1:39 pm
A first-generation-to-college student from Portland, Maine, Lizanecz at first felt “anxious, curious, scared” on campus. The Bobcat First! program gave him a foothold.
For Bates football, 6-year-old Brayden Austin is their captain courageous
Monday, September 30, 2019 3:53 pm
Six-year-old Brayden Austin, who bravely overcame a grave medical condition four years ago, is this year's honorary captain for the Bates football team.
‘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.
Fueled by $192,000 grant, Bates museum to publish catalog of art by Marsden Hartley
Monday, September 16, 2019 2:17 pm
Creation has begun of the first-ever comprehensive, publicly accessible guide to all known artworks of Marsden Hartley, a pioneer of American Modernism, thanks to a major grant to Bates College from a foundation dedicated to the arts.
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.