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30 years ago: Gulf War, Angela Davis, and a memorable night

January 15, 2021

Bates folks recall when the iconic activist, intellectual, and scholar Angela Davis — this year's MLK Day speaker — addressed a huge gathering in the chapel on Jan. 16, 1991, the night the bombs began falling in Baghdad.

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January 22, 2021

Recalling the late Henry Aaron’s friendship with Benjamin Mays

January 22, 2021

Video: See what we heard on MLK Day

January 22, 2021

Not so fast with the ‘time for unity’ calls, say Bates scholars

January 22, 2021

Quotable quotes, and what they mean, from MLK Day at Bates in 2021

January 19, 2021

MLK Day speaker Angela Davis: Biden-Harris victory ‘does not mean that we step back’

January 15, 2021

Bates announces virtual MLK Day events, including Angela Davis as keynote

January 13, 2021

Campus Construction Update: Jan. 15, 2021

December 18, 2020

The top 10 tweets from Bates College Twitter in 2020

Portraits shot in the Scene Shop during Sangai Asia Night January 24, 2020.The Sangai Asia Club welcomes you to a night of celebrating Asian and Asian American cultures through music, song and dance.Join us to support our performers as they celebrate Indonesian, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean cultures. There is a lot more to look forward to!Sangai Asia Night 2020 is made possible via the participations of the Gamelan Orchestra, Bollywood Club, Taiko Club, and other performers at Bates College.

December 18, 2020

Video: Bates 2020 in images, ‘may we be good to each other’

December 18, 2020

18 items in the Library’s Lost and Found on Dec. 17, 2020

December 17, 2020

Bates loans pivotal COVID-19 storage freezers to local hospitals

Jonathan Farrell '20 binds his creative writing yearlong thesis, a series of short stories, written under the guidance of his adviser, Jessica Anthony. He gathered a group of friends in the library at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning to bind his thesis (not quite done but close enough) to find closure. And he asked his friend Stevens "Steve" Shea '22 of Wilson, Wyoming.“It’s weird. Like, I feel like this was something kind of last minute, that I wanted to bind in the end. But they kind of gave me the closure I was so desperately looking for. And since, this thesis isn't really just a semester or year- long like mine was in the end, but it's kind of like all these stories are the amalgamation of my entire time here at Bates and something that I've been fortunate enough to write, and looking back reminded me of everything I've been through. The themes are kind of centered around, are kind of themed around an idea of loneliness and how characters try to cope with that. One of the stories is about a guy sitting upon a chapel kind of rooftop talking to gargoyles. Another one is a guy trying to think about how you can get a goldfish out of his toilet, and his goldfish is like almost a plastic God sort of thing. Yes, the characters cope with their own loneliness and they move forward. Great.Steve has become a really good friend of mine this year. I met him at the beginning of the year, and I didn't really know him at first, but we were rock climbing together. He was always around a lot when I was working on my thesis, which was Saturday nights when the deadline was Sunday morning. And whatever I would write about it, like Johnny, ‘it's all good.’ Like, ‘don't worry about it. You know, you're writing You're doing well.’ You're like, ‘just keep on going.’ And that was something I was so kind of thankful for.”“It's definitely weird that we're all done. I mean, so many seniors are now off campus. And we kind of, I've been thinking a lot like, you know,

December 17, 2020

Bates photographers’ favorite images of an unfavorable 2020

December 11, 2020

Despite no games, first-year Bobcats still win big with teamwork and belonging

December 10, 2020

The top 13 Bates College Facebook posts of 2020

PHOTO DATE: November 05, 2018LOCATION: NBL - Pool TopsideSUBJECT: 2017 ASCAN class members Warren Hoburg and Loral O'Hara (Blue Team) during ASCAN EVQ NBL 3 training.PHOTOGRAPHER: Josh Valcarcel

December 9, 2020

Here’s what the NASA astronaut said to the Bates sophomore STEM students

December 9, 2020

Oh Henry! Bill Henry ’85 wins editing Emmy for HBO’s ‘Succession’

Prof of Environmental Studies and Christian A. Johnson Prof of Interdisc Studies Holly Ewing and Lecturer in Environmental Studies & Learning Associate in Environmental Studies Camille Parrish take students in the Soils/Lab course for a field trip to Pettengill Farm in Freeport, Maine. A nineteenth century salt-water farm on the estuary of the Harraseeket River, the farm is owned by Freeport Historical Society(FHS). It includes a saltbox house (ca. 1800) on 140 acres of fields, woods, antique apple orchards and salt marsh. Most interesting are the etchings (sgraffitti) found on the plaster walls in the upper chambers of ships, sea monsters, longboats and animals. The farmhouse remains without plumbing, central heat and electricity and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Mildred Pettengill was its last resident and lived in the house until 1970.The students are digging up soil and making observations (soil profiles) before putting it back where it came from.ENVR 310 - Soils/LabDepending on one's point of view, soils are geological units, ecosystems, the foundation of plant life, a place for microbes to live, building material, or just dirt. This course takes a scientific perspective and explores the genesis of soils, their distribution and characteristics, and their interaction with plants. Field studies emphasize description of soils, inferences about soil formation, and placement within a landscape context. Labs investigate the chemistry of soils and their role in forestry and agriculture.

December 7, 2020

Bates students dig into the science of dirt in a historic Maine landscape

December 4, 2020

Bates in the News: Dec. 4, 2020

December 3, 2020

Campus Construction Update: Dec. 4, 2020

December 1, 2020

Setbacks and successes: How students navigated academic surprises in the fall 2020 semester