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Images of Leahey Field showing partial installation of FieldTuf on the infield. Part of the infield will be brown, where the traditional dirt and basepaths would be, and elsewhere green.

November 7, 2024

Campus Construction Update: Nov. 8, 2024

Opening another front in Bates’ endless battle against marine clay, workers began laying a new FieldTurf playing surface at Leahey Field this week.

Corbin Cleary, a field technician for Firefly Sports Testing, sets up equipment on the new turf at Russell Street Field. Firefly collects turf performance data for manufacturer FieldTurf. (Doug Hubley/Bates College)

September 19, 2024

Campus Construction Update: September 20, 2024

After the summer replacement of its grass playing surface with FieldTurf, Russell Street Field is back in play. But what of Leahey Field?

Stylish furniture, a table-tennis table, and long views in the new student lounge at 96 Campus Avenue. (Doug Hubley/Bates College)

August 26, 2024

Campus Construction Update: Aug. 30, 2024

Bates students have been sleeping and socializing since last week in the college’s newest campus residence, following an eight-month renovation.

News & Updates

March 26, 2026

Everyone is a star in ‘Everybody’

Bates Theater’s production of 'Everybody' sold out every performance at Gannett Theater last week — waitlists at the door, eager audience members finding out they’d gotten seats five minutes before curtain — and the room earned that anticipatory urgency.

March 26, 2026

Yun Garrison wins Lee Young Leadership Award from YWCA

Yun Garrison, associate professor of psychology, was honored on March 8 with the Lee Young Leadership Award from the YWCA of Central Maine in recognition for her community-engaged work.

March 26, 2026

‘Equally at home everywhere’: Brett Karpf ’26 wins Watson Fel…

Brett Karpf walks to make sense of the world and because he has to, for reasons he’s still trying to understand. Beginning in August, fully funded by a fellowship from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, Karpf will spend a full year walking — and thinking about walking.