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March 20, 2024

Campus Construction Update: March 22, 2024

With demolition finished by mid-February, the conversion of 96 Campus Avenue to student housing is now all about creation and renewal.

February 28, 2024

Campus Construction Update: Feb. 28, 2024

Campus Construction Update returns with a look at Bates’ latest student residence — a former convent now being renovated for an August reopening.

September 28, 2023

(Off-)Campus Construction Update: Sept. 28, 2023

After about a year of construction, the juice has started to flow from a solar array of nearly 18,500 photovoltaic panels that Bates established in the Maine town of Skowhegan.
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April 12, 2024

Those infamous 1800s pistol duels? They actually served a pur…

Even before the musical Hamilton, the Burr-Hamilton duel had most people figuring that pistol duels were deadly and irrational. But for the most part, they were neither, according to new research by Bates economist Paul Shea.

April 12, 2024

Picture Story: Celebrating students at Mount David Summit 202…

It's a Mount David Summit tradition: students show up to support their friends who are presenting at the summit. Summing up, Adelle Welch '25 said, “It’s all about spreading the love.”

April 12, 2024

‘A really amazing thing’: The 2024 Senior Thesis Exhibiti…

Photographs and text about the eight seniors who have moved their artwork from studios into the Bates Museum of Art for the 2024 Senior Thesis Exhibition — a "moment that validates what is possible."