Scholarship

Bates seeks to advance excellence in teaching and research, and provides support for faculty throughout their careers, including teaching development programs, leaves and sabbaticals, research and curriculum development, and securing external funding for faculty scholarship.

Professor of Biology April Hill in her Carnegie Science Lab, Room 404, training two "new scientists." “For me, it’s like being a coach," she says. Names forthcoming. The two students in the lab with Hill are Sara King ’21 of Newton Center, Mass., and Jasmine Nutakki ’21 of Augusta, Maine. Hill says: “They were learning to use a technique called the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify genes from freshwater sponges. Both students (and some others) will be working over short term on a project funded by my NSF grant to study the gene networks involved in animal:algal symbioses. In this case, the animals are sponges and the algae are Chlorella.” 
Jakub Kazecki
Francesco Duina, professor sociology, teaching in his Political Sociology class in Hedge Hall. (Theophil Syslo/Bates College)

Funding

Sabbaticals and Leaves

Mentoring

  • Mentoring: For Mentors and Mentees: information and resources for faculty at Bates.

Accomplishments, Contributions, and Engagements (ACE) Annual Report

(formerly the Professional Activities Report – PAR)

Your Accomplishments, Contributions, and Engagements (ACE) Annual Report contributes to our perspective on the scholarly, teaching, and service accomplishments of the faculty that we share with our colleagues, the trustees, and others.

The 2024-2025 ACE report form is available. Submissions are due by June 15, 2025.

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Faculty Expertise

The Bates faculty have far-reaching teaching and scholarly interests. To learn more, click here for an overview of the faculty’s fields of scholarly expertise.

Faculty Spotlight Series

Each week this series highlights the scholarship, achievement, honors, and performances of the accomplished Bates staff. See the latest Spotlight!