Looking Back: 2012 in photographs

The Bobcat looks forward to May 15, when Bates seeks 555 additional alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day. Photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College

Alumni make May 15 a “great day”

Post by: Victoria Stanton on Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Bates reaches 599 new alumni donors to the Bates Fund in one day.

Matthew Auer, Indiana University honors dean, named Bates College vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty

Post by: Bates News on Monday, May 13, 2013

A leading scholar and globally engaged expert, Auer is also a dynamic and effective academic leader, said Bates President Clayton Spencer.

Bates expects to award bachelor's degree to approximately 450 students, representing 35 U.S. states and 28 countries, on May 26. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

2013 Commencement honorary degrees announced; address by Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg

Post by: Bates News on Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The honorary degree candidates “show us how the values that define the Bates experience can shape, and take shape in, the world,” said President Spencer.

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Tuesday January 1, 2013 4:49 pm	Looking Back: 2012 in photographs A slide show of our favorite images of 2012 explores how and why Bates is a place that “encounters individuals in their full humanity.”
Thursday January 1, 2009 1:03 pm	Wenzel awarded $100,000 grant for chemistry curriculum development Thomas Wenzel, a chemistry professor at Bates, has received a grant worth nearly $100,000 to support an online curriculum development project in analytical chemistry.
Tuesday October 28, 2008 12:00 pm	Bates student to direct Sam Shepard's Lie of the Mind Bates College senior Sulochana Dissanayake of Pita Kotte, Sri Lanka, directs the Bates theater department production of A Lie of the Mind, Sam Shepard’s realistic portrayal of two American families.
Tuesday September 2, 2008 12:00 pm	$2.5 million gift helps inspire food-awareness initiative at Bates College An unusual donation of $2.5 million to Bates College has increased the college’s already high use of local, organic and natural food.
Monday September 1, 2008 12:00 pm	Bates researchers count Lyme-disease ticks in Maine woods Bates students worked this summer with visiting biology professor Ronald Barry to collect and analyze data about ticks that carry Lyme disease.
Friday August 1, 2008 12:00 pm	Summer program for math, science students going strong in second year Squeezing the equivalent of two semester-long courses into just six weeks, the second annual Hughes Summer Scholars Program at Bates has been a real academic workout for the students involved.
Tuesday July 1, 2008 3:10 pm	Walk Like a Bobcat The new Alumni Walk became part of the traditional Alumni Parade route at Reunion 2008.
Thursday May 1, 2008 3:03 pm	Get Smarter Academic sparks really start to fly each spring, with signature events like the Mount David Summit and the Honors Banquet, as well as frequent announcements of postgraduate academic honors.
Tuesday April 1, 2008 2:58 pm	Weight Off His Shoulders Noah Gauthier ’08 of Amherst, N.H., took home a national title in the weight throw in March at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships.
Saturday March 1, 2008 2:53 pm	Dinner Time About 1,000 diners gave the College’s new Commons its first major test on the evening of Feb. 25 during the first dinner served to the entire campus community in the new space.

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Tuesday

January 1, 2013
4:49 pm

A slide show of our favorite images of 2012 explores how and why Bates is a place that “encounters individuals in their full humanity.”

Thursday

January 1, 2009
1:03 pm

Wenzel awarded $100,000 grant for chemistry curriculum development

Thomas Wenzel, a chemistry professor at Bates, has received a grant worth nearly $100,000 to support an online curriculum development project in analytical chemistry.

Tuesday

October 28, 2008
12:00 pm

Bates student to direct Sam Shepard's Lie of the Mind

Bates College senior Sulochana Dissanayake of Pita Kotte, Sri Lanka, directs the Bates theater department production of A Lie of the Mind, Sam Shepard’s realistic portrayal of two American families.

Tuesday

September 2, 2008
12:00 pm

$2.5 million gift helps inspire food-awareness initiative at Bates College

An unusual donation of $2.5 million to Bates College has increased the college’s already high use of local, organic and natural food.

Monday

September 1, 2008
12:00 pm

Bates researchers count Lyme-disease ticks in Maine woods

Bates students worked this summer with visiting biology professor Ronald Barry to collect and analyze data about ticks that carry Lyme disease.

Friday

August 1, 2008
12:00 pm

Summer program for math, science students going strong in second year

Squeezing the equivalent of two semester-long courses into just six weeks, the second annual Hughes Summer Scholars Program at Bates has been a real academic workout for the students involved.

Tuesday

July 1, 2008
3:10 pm

Walk Like a Bobcat

The new Alumni Walk became part of the traditional Alumni Parade route at Reunion 2008.

Thursday

May 1, 2008
3:03 pm

Get Smarter

Academic sparks really start to fly each spring, with signature events like the Mount David Summit and the Honors Banquet, as well as frequent announcements of postgraduate academic honors.

Tuesday

April 1, 2008
2:58 pm

Weight Off His Shoulders

Noah Gauthier ’08 of Amherst, N.H., took home a national title in the weight throw in March at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships.

Saturday

March 1, 2008
2:53 pm

Dinner Time

About 1,000 diners gave the College’s new Commons its first major test on the evening of Feb. 25 during the first dinner served to the entire campus community in the new space.