Stories about "maine"
Video: A student’s love letter to Lewiston

Friday, May 18, 2018 9:56 am

Graduating senior Durotimi Akinkugbe explains why Bates students love Lewiston.

Katherine Creswell ’05 ate a Maine-only diet for a month. Here’s what she learned

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 12:11 pm

Ten years after doing a senior thesis on Maine food security, she decides to eat a Maine-sourced diet for one month.

Museum of Art gallery talk features photographers in ‘Points of View’

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 3:03 pm

Three photographers featured in the Bates College Museum of Art exhibition 'Points of View' discuss their work in a gallery talk on July 23.

‘Points of View,’ portraits of Hartley, Maine images at Museum of Art

Thursday, June 4, 2015 12:54 pm

Summer 2015 at the Bates Museum of Art features four photographers' perceptions of nature and humanity in Maine.

Presenting new knowledge in 1700 square inches

Sunday, March 1, 2009 12:25 pm

Dana Oster '09 had to think big — Atlantic Ocean big — during her geology research on the ever-shifting sands of Seawall Beach, part of the Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area along the Maine coast.

The Farmer's Father: Steve Hoad '72

Thursday, February 5, 2009 2:38 pm

Blind from birth, Steve Hoad was raised by a mother who “understood that children were children,” he says. “It was expected that I would do things children do.” His outdoors experiences as a child and a desire to conserve land solidified Hoad’s dream to one day live with his family on a farm.

Field Geology in Maine

Sunday, October 19, 2008 1:33 pm

Another cool class I am taking this year is called Field Geology in Maine. What’s awesome about it is how the course introduces you to the principles of geology while working in the field. Therefore, it isn’t the same old “rocks in a box” kind of geology that sounds oh-so boring. Instead, the professor has the philosophy that the best way to learn geology is by doing it. About once a month, our lab will go out on a field trip to the coast, Baxter State Park, or even Acadia National Park.

Bates researchers count Lyme-disease ticks in Maine woods

Monday, September 1, 2008 12:00 pm

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

Phelps' agent makes home in Maine

Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:00 pm

"This changes everything." That's how Peter Carlisle '91, agent to the hottest athlete on the planet, summed up the likely effect of Michael Phelps' historic Olympics performance -- not only for Phelps, but perhaps for the Olympics themselves.

Exhibit weaves stories of Maine millworkers

Friday, June 13, 2008 12:00 pm

'Weaving a World: Lewiston's Millworkers, 1920-2008' describes the mills, millworkers and the social world they made ... [and] gives us a front-row seat on history.

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