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Bates people on stage in costumes made from recycled materials

Traditional garments, elegant gowns, and out-of-this-world outfits: Bates has a passion for Trashion

November 22, 2024

At the Bates Trashion Show, one person’s trash is not just another’s treasure, but perhaps even another’s trend.

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December 6, 2024

Art, food, decor, and more: Check out the 2024 Bates Alumni Gift Guide

December 6, 2024

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

December 5, 2024

The 15 most-viewed BatesNews stories 2024

Bates women's basketball defeats Colby 66-63 in Alumni Gym on Dec. 3, 2024.

December 3, 2024

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Fall foliage on the Bates campus Historic Quad, Hathorn Hall

November 21, 2024

Bates announces nine faculty appointments to endowed professorships

November 21, 2024

Retiring after 14 years, Bates Museum of Art Director Dan Mills reflects on highlights from ‘a good run’

From left, Samantha Bunar ’26, Kylie Musante ’26, Olivia Faucera ’26, Nadia Schwartz ’26, Tess Griffith. Seated: Gabby Monaco

November 15, 2024

Our top 10 Bobcat sportraits from fall 2024

On Veterans Day, we pause to reflect and remember. During this morning’s gathering at Bates Veterans Plaza, Joe Castonguay of Facility Services lays a flower atop one of the basalt stones that comprise the plaza centerpiece. “I learned the value of human life in combat,” said Castonguay, a U.S. Army veteran who served for 15 months in Iraq. The Rev. Dr. Brittany Longsdorf, @bates_multifaith chaplain, guided today’s centering moment, which included reflective readings and interfaith prayers, the observing of silence, and the ritual of laying flowers to honor the service and sacrifice of veterans. Dedicated in 2020 and located near the Benjamin E. Mays Center, the plaza honors Bates veterans and invites “reflection on the impact of war on the lives of everyone it touches.” President Garry W. Jenkins was in attendance.

November 15, 2024

Veterans Day at Bates, and thoughts from a Bates combat veteran

November 15, 2024

25 items (or 62, depending your count) in the Bates library’s Lost and Found on Nov. 11, 2024

November 15, 2024

Say What? Quotable quotes from Bates folks: Nov. 15, 2024

November 8, 2024

Three Bates professors earn Phillips Fellowships for research and travel in 2025–26

November 8, 2024

Video: The sights and colors in an autumn flyover of the Bates campus

dressed up woman voting in a very showy way

November 8, 2024

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

November 7, 2024

Campus Construction Update: Nov. 8, 2024

“‘If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.’” — Physics and Geology Lecturer Gene Clough, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson on the stars, while looking at Venus in the evening sky. During the semester that he teaches “Lunar and Planetary Science,” Clough stands outside of Carnegie Science for an hour at dusk on every clear night so that interested members of the Bates community can star gaze.

November 1, 2024

Slideshow: Remembering Gene Clough, a teacher with boundless passion and curiosity

A visit to the Looking Ahead Clubhouse in Lewiston by the Gather Hear Tour by pianist Miki Sawada (seen at the piano). Looking Ahead is a program for adults with mental illness based on the Clubhouse Model of Rehabilitation. Jahan Baker-Wainwright ’25 (blue crewneck sweater), a biochemistry major from Cottage Grove, Wis., performed Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata, op. 13, the third movement, on the piano. Assistant Professor of Music Zen Kuriyama (down coat) sang Franz Schubert’s “Der Doppelgänger” and “An die Musik,” accompanied by Miki Sawada on piano. Marrich Somridhivej ’26 (quilted pullover), a biology major from South Windsor, Conn., performed Amy Beach’s “Summer Dreams,” op. 47, no. 2 and 3, with Miki Sawada on the piano (four hand). Chiharu Naruse (glasses, black coat), Bates piano teacher, collaborative pianist, is seen at the picnic table and as a page-turner when the wind came up.

November 1, 2024

At a Lewiston clubhouse, a musical performance that’s ‘less about perfection, and more about connecting’

November 1, 2024

Bates Alumni and Students in the News: Nov. 1, 2024

October 30, 2024

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

October 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.

October 25, 2024

October 25 Remembrance Service: ‘We reflect and we renew our commitments to each other’