Scholarship in Action

May 9, 2025

Bates Faculty in the News: Therí Pickens’ debut poetry collection gains media attention and sparks a busy spring, on and off campus

Featuring: Therí Pickens

 1. Yes, that is the course name. It is ECON/DCS 368 2. I'm working with Jacqueline Crucet in the Economic & Community Development Department. The relationship was set up by the Harward Center -- it is our second semester working together. Morgan Kinney introduced us and has been a point person to help this CEL project work two semesters in a row now. 3. The Harward Center is constantly working to set up these relationships. Jacqueline likes to work with students on these opportunities. Last semester she and I collaborated on a hackathon concerning the relationship between streetlights and crime -- I think she wanted to do another semester project after that one. 4. & 5. The data are administrative city records and census data. (Technically the census is a survey, but it is aggregated to the "block" level, which is a Census unit that roughly corresponds to a city block.) The admin data was collected by the city. It is information on each household's participation.

May 8, 2025

Bates students hack real-world problems, including lead poisoning, to help a downtown Lewiston neighborhood

Featuring: Kyle G. Coombs

Apr 25, 2025

Bates Faculty in the News: April 25, 2025

Featuring: Carolina González Valencia Mara C. Tieken Asha K. Tamirisa Carrie Diaz Eaton Paul E. Schofield

 Photo E. LeFlore

Apr 10, 2025

LeFlore studies lion movements in Botswana to understand the keys to their survival

Featuring: Eric G. LeFlore

Apr 8, 2025

Bates’ newest major, digital and computational studies, blends computer science with critique, community engagement

Featuring: Barry G. Lawson Anelise H. Shrout Carrie Diaz Eaton Andy E. Ricci Jason B. Castro

Mar 27, 2025

Mark Lewis Tizzoni examines early Christian communities in Roman Africa in a new paper

Featuring: Mark L. Tizzoni

Mar 14, 2025

Picture Story: Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull,’ between avant-garde and traditional

Featuring: Katalin Vecsey

Feb 25, 2025

Bates named a Fulbright Top Producer for 14th straight year

Featuring: Beverly J. Johnson

Feb 13, 2025

Keiko Konoeda’s new work examines how a sense of competence or incompetence impacts engagement in digital storytelling

Featuring: Keiko Konoeda

 Ryan Bavis, Bates Helen A. Papaioanou Professor of Biological Sciences, posing in his Bonney Science Center laboratory and office. Bavis is collaborating with his friend and colleague Peter MacFarlane, assistant professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine on their discovery of a novel animal model mimicking sudden infant death syndrome. Last year, the National Institutes of Health awarded the scientists a $2.8 million grant to study the model over five years. MacFarlane is the project’s principal investigator, and $307,495 is allocated to Bates. Dr. Richard Martin of Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and professor at CWRU’s School of Medicine is also a co-investigator on the project.

Feb 5, 2025

Two scientists, a friendship, and a problem to solve: Ryan Bavis, Peter MacFarlane receive $2.8 million NIH grant to study sudden infant death syndrome

Featuring: Ryan W. Bavis

Jan 24, 2025

MLK Day keynote: Why nonviolent protest has become less successful (when it might be needed most)

Featuring: Tyler A. Harper

 Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken, winner of the 2024 Kroepsch Teaching Award, teaches students in her course “EDUC 231 - Perspectives on Education” in Pettigrew 30 on January 16, 2025. EDUC 231 - Perspectives on Education This course introduces students to foundational perspectives (anthropological, historical, philosophical, psychological, and sociological) on education and helps students apply these perspectives to contemporary schools and classrooms. The course considers several large questions: What should be the purpose of education in a democratic society? What should be the role of the school? Who should participate in making decisions about schools? In what ways do schools reflect and perpetuate larger social inequities, and, alternately, how can they contribute to a more just and inclusive society? Students must complete at least thirty hours of fieldwork.

Jan 24, 2025

Teaching teachers: Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken receives 2024 Kroepsch Award for excellence in teaching

Featuring: Mara C. Tieken

Dec 6, 2024

Faculty in the News: Michael Sargent’s research spotlighted on Hidden Brain

Featuring: Michael Sargent

 dressed up woman voting in a very showy way

Nov 8, 2024

Takeaways after the 2024 U.S. election from three Bates politics professors

Featuring: John R. Baughman Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz Stephen M. Engel

Oct 25, 2024

Faculty in the News: Michael Rocque on the decline in hunting and a shift in ‘what guns mean and what they symbolize’ in the U.S.

Featuring: Michael Rocque

 unhoused person in an encampment outside.

Sep 20, 2024

Faculty in the News: Philosophy professor Paul Schofield on homelessness being a ‘unique form of injustice’

Featuring: Paul E. Schofield

 Moments from Convocation on September 3, 2024., 2024. (Theophil Syslo | Bates College)

Sep 6, 2024

Opening Convocation at Bates offers timeless and timely advice to the Class of 2028

Featuring: Sonja K. Pieck

 Associate Professor of Biology Larissa Williams teaches students in Bio s39f a lesson on “uses of Genetic analysis to understand the population of dynamics of crabs in Maine.” They met in Bonney 370 laboratory and received instruction on how to use a pipette, including closing their eyes in preparing to click the instrument. The course’s instructor is Jesse Minor ’00, a lecturer in biology.

Aug 13, 2024

Bates biology professor and three young graduates publish ‘worrisome’ research findings of a common industrial chemical’s harmful effects

Featuring: Larissa M. Williams

Jun 21, 2024

Stephen Engel: As we mark Pride 2024, remember our predecessors’ fight and demand for recognition

Featuring: Stephen M. Engel

Apr 24, 2024

Bates announces faculty promotions, including tenure awards, for 2024

Featuring: John R. Baughman Marcelle M. Medford Katharine A. Ott Michael Rocque Anelise H. Shrout Jonathan J. Cavallero Senem Aslan Justine K. Wiesinger