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We are piloting the experiment for these students thesis experiments. They were piloting Hannahs experiment. Shes interested in looking at the extent to which visual masking actually inhibits perception. So when you take a visual mask, you take an image followed by another image, youre impaired at understanding the first image. The question is why. So what were going to do is take the neural activity that were measuring. And the nice thing about EEG is that it measures millisecond by millisecond electrical potentials that are generated in the brain , we measure them from the scalp. And we can see over time what the brain is processing and we use machine learning, we put these signals into a computer system tha t reads out the extent to which there is information about what the picture is. Were wondering, does that information persist when you change the image? Does that persist over time? Hannahs made the experiment, and we are going to try it out to make sure everythings ready for participants.? Michelle Greene, assistant professor of neuroscience, says of three thesis students in neuroscience: Theyre all terrific, I might add.Hanna De Bruyn 18, Old Lyme, Conn. (black striped sweater with glasses)Katherine Katie Hartnett 18 of St. Paul, Minn. (wearing EEG cap with Bates sweatshirt)Julie Self 18 of Redwood City, Calif. (blue plaid shirt)Email from Hanna: Katie Harnett and I will be testing out our computational neuroscience theses and will be hooking each other up to the EEG tomorrow, Friday, at 12:45-2:30ish in the Bates Computational Vision Lab (Hathorn 108).

Bates announces $3.97 million National Science Foundation grant for visual database project

August 16, 2019

The largest-ever federal grant awarded to Bates, the award will fuel creation of a vast video gallery to support research in various fields, including artificial intelligence.

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Megan Guynes '11, program director of Tree Street Youth, oversees a big summer camp with many interns from Bates and elsewhere. The camp combats "summer slide," when children forget what they learn in school.Program DirectorTree Street Youth144 Howe Street | Lewiston | ME207-513-6866megan@treestreetyouth.orgOn the morning of Monday, July 22, Megan begins the day by checking the children in, followed by moments from the camp's opening program which starts around 8:45 a.m.

August 23, 2019

My Maine Summer: Megan Guynes ’11 and the ‘energy and vibe’ of a Lewiston summer

Move-In DayPresident’s Welcome AddressAll are invited to enjoy a warm welcome from Clayton Spencer, Bates’ eighth PresidentCoram Library QuadRain Site: Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building

August 22, 2019

Arriving Monday, the Bates Class of 2023 steps into a ‘world of new connections’

August 22, 2019

Bates announces four faculty promotions, including tenure, for 2019–20

August 21, 2019

Bobcats find competition, friendship playing summer baseball

August 21, 2019

My Maine Summer: Eric Stirling ’97 and a faraway getaway

August 16, 2019

A price subsidy for organic fruits: Good economics, or not?

August 16, 2019

Bates in the News: Aug. 16, 2019

August 16, 2019

Caitlin Cleaver named director of Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area and Shortridge Coastal Center

August 13, 2019

My Maine Summer: Steve Kingston ’88, the Clam Shack, and Maine’s best lobster roll

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”.— Russell BakerSummer on campus

August 12, 2019

Slideshow: This Summer at Bates

Baxter State Park, Maine—08-03-2018— Eben Sypitlowski waits to cross a snowmobile bridge at Abol Stream on his way to inspect recent trail improvements at Baxter State Park on Friday. Kevin Bennett Photo

August 8, 2019

My Maine Summer: Baxter State Park’s Eben Sypitkowski ’05 and a ‘step back in time’

Ryan Mahoney ’20 Virginia Tech, Environmental Resources Management, working with Maine Coast Heritage Trust which placed me with KELT (Kennebec Estuary Land Trust), posses for a portrait using his photne to lit himself while watching the cosmos from on top of "The Rock" overlooking Meetinghouse Pond at The Coastal Center at Shortridge on July 29, 2019. He states:"As for my little biography, I was born and raised in Reston, Virginia and have lived there my whole life. Now I am going into my senior year at Virginia Tech majoring in 'Environmental Resources Management' and getting minors in 'Forestry' and Watershed Management'. This Summer, I got the opportunity to work with Maine Coast Heritage Trust which placed me with KELT (Kennebec Estuary Land Trsust). I wanted this internship because I knew it would give me experiences in the field of environmental conservation that I otherwise would not have been able to have. Staying at Shortridge this Summer has been an absolute blessing and I will forever cherish my time here forever.""Growing up, I always loved to look at the night sky and stars. When there was a meteor shower or celestial event, my parents would wake me up in the middle of the night and drive me and my siblings out to a field where we could see the sky with the least amount of light pollution possible. Last night at Shortridge was my first time seeing a truly clear night sky with no light pollution and it was absolutely breathtaking. Words cannot do justice for what I saw last night. Looking up, I could see the whole Milky Way, more stars than imaginable, and even space stations or satellites floating in the endless wonder. Standing up on that rock and looking at the intricacies of the universe flushed me with feelings of wonder, astonishment, and excitement. Those moments are the moments I chase in life and I hope to see a sky like that again sometime soon."

August 7, 2019

Video: What can you see in the starry Maine sky on a summer night?

July 31, 2019

Campus Construction Update: Aug. 1, 2019

July 23, 2019

NESCAC Heat Poll for July 20–21: Jumbos flip the script

July 19, 2019

Apollo 11: Six things we’ve learned since the 1969 lunar landing, and one enduring mystery

Professor of Geology Beverly Johnson uses a sediment elevation table to measure the height of the Sprague River Salt Marsh, part of the Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area..These data are used to measure the response of the marsh to rising sea level and storm activity, Johnson says. Four years ago, she and her Short Term geology students traveled to the Sprague, where they placed rods deep in the marsh as benchmarks to measure future changes.Show with Laura Sewall (in garnet baseball cap), Harward Center for Community Partnerships, Director of Bates Morse Mountain Conservation Area, and Vanessa Paolella '21 of Dingmen's Ferry, Pa., who has been working with Johnson on geology research over the summer.Also present: Clailre Enterline (in green shirt and blue baseball cap), Research Coordinator with the Maine Coastal Program. And (not in selects but wearing a blue baseball cap and blue shirt) Ellen Bartow-Gieelie, Coastal Fellow with the Maine Coastal Program.

July 19, 2019

Q&A: Laura Sewall on 11 years as Bates–Morse Mountain director

July 12, 2019

The Bates Forest is a story of bad luck, high taxes, and the Great Depression

July 3, 2019

Campus Construction Update: July 8, 2019

June 28, 2019

At Clean Sweep, students’ stuff makes great yard sale finds

June 28, 2019

Bates in the News: June 28, 2019