Baccalaureate 2023

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June 2, 2023

Video: Ready for their 2023 Bates Commencement closeups

As bleary-eyed seniors slowly arrived on Commencement morning, we were there, inviting them to pose for slow-motion portraits. Slow no more!

June 2, 2023

Video: ‘Do you drink the water or the wave?’ asks Baccala…

It's a line from a postmodern novel: “Which do you drink? The water or the wave?” We plan to drink the water. But then the waves come crashing, says Chris Schiff in his Baccalaureate address.

June 1, 2023

Slideshow: Hour by hour with the Bates Class of 2023 on Comme…

"A great, unpretentious, family-style Commencement!" is how a livestream viewer from Santa Fe, N.M., described this year's Bates graduation. Here's how it went, hour by hour.

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December 1, 2023

What gives? Ideas from the Bates Alumni Holiday Gift Guide

The annual alumni gift guide debuted three years ago and has become one of the most popular Bates Alumni online offerings. since.

November 30, 2023

By agreeing to abandon one word, Bates peer tutors gain insig…

Visiting Bates to deliver the Otis Lecture, poet Nancy Campbell invited the peer writing and language tutors to play her famed Polar Tombolo game to gain insight into language diversity and the power of words.

November 29, 2023

Q&A: On the job with Alex Provasnik ’25, good chem…

Provasnik's campus job, in the Olin Arts Center ceramics studio, fits both her majors: studio art (of course) but also chemistry. She'ss one of 716 students, or 40 percent of the campus enrollment of around 1,800, who have at least one campus job this semester.