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At Convocation, an embrace and promise for the Class of 2027: ‘You get to be who you want to be’

September 8, 2023

From the Bobcat cheers coming from the women’s soccer team to President Garry W. Jenkins’ promise to the Class of 2027 that Bates is a place where “you get to be who you want to be,” the resounding message at Convocation on Sept. 5 was that Bates is a community centered on caring and kindness.

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September 15, 2023

Picture Story: From pre-arrival heights to a buoyant first day of Bates classes

September 15, 2023

11 new CatFacts: the 2023 Bates football edition

Cole De Magistris ’24, an economics and rhetoric, film, and screen studies double major from Emerson, N.J. He had a purposeful work internship during August 2023 with the Minnesota Vikings training facility in Eagan, Minn. He was photographed here on Aug. 21, 2023. Work: Supporting marketing, fan engagement, and guest services initiatives included with Fan Village, the Vikings’ fan experience program during training camp.

September 13, 2023

NFL internship more than just fun and games for Cole De Magistris ’24

September 12, 2023

Campus Construction Update: Sept. 15, 2023

September 8, 2023

Video: ‘A beautiful place’ for Beverly Johnson and students to drill into the science of blue carbon

September 8, 2023

Holding open the Bates door, one rock, paver, or person at a time

September 8, 2023

Slideshow: Hour by hour on Opening Day with the Class of 2027

September 1, 2023

As Bates cross country forges a new unified future, “Roy’s” becomes part of it

September 1, 2023

From A to Z, here’s what’s new at Bates for 2023–24

September 1, 2023

‘They’re problem solvers’: Facts, figures, talents, and tidbits about the Class of 2027

Bates Dance Festival faculty member and choreographer Duane Lee Holland Jr. leads a Hip Hop Class in the Gray Athletic Building. He is joined by BDF faculty member Akili Jamal Haynes, aka Chibuzo Dunun, a composer and multi-instrumentalist (who is shown dancing with his guitar). Bates student Lucy Whitelam ’26 (she/hers) of Reading, Mass., is taking the class. She’s shown wearing her black “Be Nice” t-shirt). It’s a combined class of Hip Hop and Modern, joined into one because of a COVID outbreak within the BDF community. After warming up, the dancers began rehearsing a series of movements that referenced a football play running with a ball and making a pass.

August 30, 2023

Slideshow: This Summer at Bates

Nathaniel Boone '52 poses with his wife who now lives in Manchester Center, Vt., Harriet Howell Boone outside of their Manchester Center, Vt., home, after Boone received a Congressional Gold Medal for his service as one of about 400 surviving "Montford Point Marines," the first African Americans to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps. Given basic training in the 1940s at the racially segregated Montford Point facility at Camp Lejeune, N.C., more than 19,000 black Marines broke the Corps color barrier in a time and place where desegregation was anything but welcome.

August 25, 2023

Bates in the News: August 25, 2023

August 25, 2023

Bates professor Michel Droge paints the ocean depths, and discovers an octopus nursery

August 25, 2023

Slideshow: Meet 18 Bates students deep into their summer work experiences

August 22, 2023

Marine biology internship sawing off tuna heads seemed ghoulish, but contributing to science made it all worth it for Ben Morse ’24

August 18, 2023

Two Bates faculty experts explain ‘Barbie,’ from shelf to screen and everything in between

August 14, 2023

Campus Construction Update: Summing up summer 2023

August 9, 2023

Campus Construction Update: Aug. 10, 2023

Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences Beverly Johnson takes her summer research students who are studying blue carbon cycling in salt marshes to Bates-MorseMountain in Phippsburg.

August 9, 2023

Bates research featured in ‘groundbreaking’ EPA blue carbon report

Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences Beverly Johnson takes her summer research students who are studying blue carbon cycling in salt marshes to Bates-MorseM ountain in Phippsburg.

August 4, 2023

Bates student and faculty researchers take high-tech lead in critical blue carbon research