Stories about "The College"
Bates receives record number of applications for the Class of 2028
Friday, March 8, 2024 1:30 pm
The incoming class that arrives at Bates College in August will be drawn from the largest applicant pool in the college’s history, totalling 10,029 applications, marking the third straight year of record-high applications to Bates.
Picture Story: Feel the ‘Alumni Magic’ as women’s basketball team wins two NCAA games
Friday, March 8, 2024 12:50 pm
Enjoy this immersive photography capturig two great days to be a Bobcat as the Bobcats won two NCAA tourney games in the place they say has "Alumni Magic."
Slideshow: This Month at Bates
Thursday, March 7, 2024 10:11 am
Not much snow, but enough. Lots of winning (there’s never enough, but…
Recalling when venerable Alumni Gym had a 6-foot growth spurt
Friday, March 1, 2024 12:47 pm
On the eve of Bates hosting two rounds of the NCAA women's basketball tournament, we look back to when the Bobcats earned the right to host the first-ever home NCAA tourney game, but had to hit the road — because Alumni Gym was 6 feet too short.
Slideshow: Leap year’s here, so let’s leap back 20 years
Friday, March 1, 2024 12:42 pm
Photographs taken on leap day from 2024 back to 2004.
Campus Construction Update: Feb. 28, 2024
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 7:39 am
Campus Construction Update returns with a look at Bates’ latest student residence — a former convent now being renovated for an August reopening.
Slideshow: This Month at Bates
Friday, February 2, 2024 4:51 am
The past month featured a fierce storm and the usual January snow, but also a thought-provoking Bates MLK Day keynote and several stirring art installations and exhibits. Plus a big Bates' win over Colby in men's basketball.
Bates Magazine: Fall 2023
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 4:57 pm
Here’s a flip version of the most recent issue of Bates Magazine,…
Picture Story: A winter night for the arts
Friday, January 26, 2024 11:16 am
From Coram Library, home of the new Immersive Media Studio, to Olin Arts Center, flung open for Open Studio night, the campus was alight with the arts on a winter night.
Bates professor lands $415,000 grant to research ‘dramatically understudied’ protein that could be involved in major neurological conditions
Friday, January 26, 2024 5:00 am
The National Institute of Health grant will fund research by Martin Kruse that seeks to learn if a not-well-understood cellular protein plays a role in neurological conditions like epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease.