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Bates College announces $100 million initiative to expand access for talented students who are Pell eligible, low income, or undocumented

September 28, 2021

The $100 million effort is powered by a $50 million challenge grant from the Schuler Education Foundation that will be matched dollar for dollar by Bates donors. "This is a game changer for Bates," says President Clayton Spencer.

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October 21, 2021

What’s in a Lewiston Name: Thorne

October 20, 2021

Charles Nero: This Spike Lee film is an ‘awesome takedown’ of the interracial buddy film genre

October 20, 2021

From a Distance: 12 things we spied from the sky looking north from campus

October 14, 2021

Frank? Fran K.? What’s in a name found in a Hathorn classroom

October 14, 2021

Say What? Bates quotes from here and there: Oct. 14, 2021

October 14, 2021

Video: Gene Clough goes skydiving

October 8, 2021

Picture story: Back to Bates, Part I, Family Day

October 8, 2021

Video: Bridget Thompson ’22 and the rule of 100 percent effort

"This message is more than just three words. To grow, evolve, and transform means to accept and embrace the path you were meant to be on in order to grow as an individual and change the world around you."Thank you for this opportunity! I hope this can reach people. Let me know if you need anything else. “Sincerely,Elena Valle ’25 of Damascus, Md.Join us for Free Press on Friday, October 1st from 3:00pm-5:00pm outside of the Benjamin Mays Center.Printmaking at Free Press involves rolling ink out onto stamps carved by a variety of talented Bates artists and using those stamps to make designs on the canvas of your choice. We’ll provide limited quantities of paper, fabric masks, and canvas tote bags to print on, you bring whatever else is in need of artistic embellishment (t-shirts? jean jackets? your roommate’s bedspread?). No prior art experience or skill is necessary—we’ll have artists there to guide you through the printmaking process.

October 8, 2021

Free Press: printmaking and social justice amidst peppy pop music

October 7, 2021

Recalling 1893, when men were feeling threatened

September 29, 2021

18 items in the Bates library’s lost and found on Sept. 29, 2021

September 29, 2021

Campus Construction Update: Sept. 30, 2021

September 28, 2021

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Images of Bates faculty and students from the 1800s focusing on those with beards and moustaches. Images sources from yearbooks of the era in Muskie Archives and Special Collections LibraryThomas Singer, Class of 1890

September 24, 2021

Slideshow: 11 great beards and mustaches of 19th-century Bates

September 24, 2021

Bates in the News: Sept. 24, 2021

Installation of upcoming Marsden Hartley exhibition.Included in the photographs: Gerald Walsh, art preparator (he is an independent contractor) vacuums dust bunnies from Hartley’s 1942 painting “Christ” (oil on masonite); education curator Anthony Shostak; curator Bill Low; and Corie Audette, assistant collections manager and museum registrar.

September 24, 2021

13 nuggets from a gem of an exhibition about Lewiston-born modernist artist Marsden Hartley

September 16, 2021

Video: Behind the scenes of a Bates ‘sportrait’ photo session

September 15, 2021

$175,000 NEH grant signals Diverse BookFinder’s growing national reach

Stella Younkin ’24 of East Greenwich, R.I., reads on the Library Terrace for the course “Lives in Place” taught by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Tyler Harper.“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”― Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"Ellory Kearns '24 of Steamboat Springs, Colo., reads Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" on the stops of Coram Library for a course called "Jane Austen: Then and Now" taught by Professor of English Lillian Nayder.Swipe left to see a few scenes of other students reading — and writing — this afternoon throughout campus.

September 13, 2021

Slideshow: A walk around campus to see what students are studying

September 9, 2021

Picture story: The Class of 2025 arrives, settles in, and gets started