Web sites

• Bates Dining Services
• Sustainable Bates program

Stories

2009

• Mylius '11 helps lead Bates to victory - victory gardening, that is (May 22, 2009)
• Food in the Bates curriculum: A tasting menu (April 17, 2009)
• "Students Talkin' About Food" (April 9, 2009)
• Food-justice advocate Winne '72 brings praise for Bates, advice for Obama (March 31, 2009)
• Bates, Guiding Stars team up to provide nutritional guidance (March 31, 2009)
• Bates student helps two communities win $50,000 playground grants (March 27, 2009)
• Winne '72 to discuss 'Food Justice and Good Food' (March 26, 2009)
• World Food Prize recipient to discuss global poverty, food crisis (March 24, 2009)
• Alumni bring distinctive views to food-system issues (March 17, 2009)
• Alan Hunt '03 brings synergy to food policy (Jan. 6, 2009)

2008

• Bigger, better vegan bar draws even the carnivores (Nov. 21, 2008)
• It's in the bag for 'Trashion Show' winner (Nov. 21, 2008)
• Dining Services receives Workforce Achievement Award (Nov. 19, 2008)
• Fare to remember: Harvest Meal 2008 (Nov. 13, 2008)
• A big apple evening (Nov. 13, 2008)
• President's letter to the campus community (Nov. 5, 2008)
• Bates Maple Shortbread Cookies (Nov. 5, 2008)
• A meeting of cultures around a Creole Table (Nov. 4, 2008)
• "Omnivore's Dilemma" author presents Otis Lecture (Oct. 28, 2008)
• Walter '00, Lots to Gardens founder, wins statewide award (Oct. 14, 2008)
• Bates families flock to the farm (Oct. 14, 2008)
• Food for thought (Oct. 1, 2008)
• Gift prompts Bates College to explore social implications of food distribution (Sept. 26, 2008)
• Lecture explores psychology of food choices (Sept. 23, 2008)
• NBC affiliate reports on $2.5 million gift for local, natural, organic foods (Sept. 12, 2008)
• Orientation 2008 features 'Eat Local' brunch (Sept. 10, 2008)
• Convocation 2008: Love, food and the liberal arts education (Sept. 4, 2008)
• $2.5 million gift helps inspire food-awareness initiative at Bates College (Sept. 2, 2008)
• Bates alum — commercial longline fisherman off Cape Cod — is intensely involved in fishery issues (Summer, 2008)
• "Performative meal" culminates short term seminar (Summer, 2008)
• Bates is happy to have a beef with Gabe '02 and Amanda Clark '02 (April, 2008)
• More than a month old, dining Commons still a fresh Bates place (April. 2008)

2007

• A senior thesis project launched Lee Lynd ’79 on a quest to turn common plant materials into inexpensive, sustainable ethanol (Fall, 2007)
• Good food, fellowship, and (oh yes!) books create a happy feast for the Boston Alumnae Book Club (Fall, 2007)
• Turmoil from climate change is nothing new, says historian Michael Jones (Summer, 2007)
• Chris Westcott '03 oversees an innovative national program that helps study-abroad returnees apply their newfound skills and knowlege back home (Summer, 2007)
• Veterinarian Amy Dowd Bartholomew ’88 works in the midst of a dairy industry in peril (Summer, 2007)

2006

• Needed: A Commons Solution (Winter, 2006)
• At King Arthur Flour, twin passions of baking and writing get a rise out of Susan Reid '79 (Fall, 2006)

2005

• Commons project starts with sustainable-design discussion (Summer, 2005)
• New construction plans focus on student life outside the classroom (Spring, 2005)

2004

• A return to the nest hatches business success for Jesse Laflamme ’00 (Fall, 2004)

2000

• Mark Winne '72 derives pleasure from offering good food to low-income families (August, 2000)