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Move-In DayThe Class of 2023 arrives on campus. Students move into their new residences, attend meetings, eat lunch, pick up AESOP equipment, hear the President's Greeting on the Historic Quad, and say goodbye to their families.

Slideshow: Hour by hour with the Class of 2023 on Opening Day

August 29, 2019

Opening Day sets the tone for these new Bobcats. In the words of longtime dean James Reese, it's a day when the message is, "Everyone’s in!”

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Eva Meltzer Murray ’85 leads residents on Matinicus Island while loading a U-Haul full of recycling to be delivered mainland on August 7, 2019.A book author and essayist, she’s been a year-round resident of Matinicus Island for more than 30 years, starting as a teacher and now a leading island citizen involved in many island issues.

September 13, 2019

My Maine Summer: Eva Meltzer Murray ’85 and trash day on Matinicus Isle

Moments from the Surfing trip at Popham Beach State park on August 30, 2019. Maine has some of the most beautiful beaches on the east coast. Georgetown is located in on the southern Maine coast and is one of the premiere surfing spots in Maine. Enjoy 4 days of surfing on the coast of Maine all while camping in Sagadohoc Bay. This trip is meant for all levels of experience; whether you’ve been surfing for years or have never seen the ocean before. Camp by night and surf, relax, and explore Georgetown by day.

September 13, 2019

Picture story: Orientation week for the Class of 2023

September 12, 2019

Slideshow: Osprey vs. goldfish at Lake Andrews

At today's Opening Convocation ceremony, keynote speaker and honorand Dolores Huerta @doloreshuerta, an icon of the labor rights movement and civil rights leader, helped usher in the academic year at Bates by encouraging the Class of 2023 and the broader Bates community to become active in the fight against racism, anti-semitism, and sexism.Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies Jane Costlow

September 10, 2019

My Last Year: Scenes from Jane Costlow’s final year of teaching

September 6, 2019

Video: Opening Day 2019, from welcoming greetings to parting hugs

September 5, 2019

Lining up for Convocation, five Bates professors share what they’re excited to teach

Charlie Richardson '84Director of Education and OperationsKieve-Wavus Education Inc.207-563-5172 ext.23He poses during the last week of the final summer camp session for Kieve, overlooking the lake, checking in with boys who have returned from a long wilderness trip, connecting with younger boys on the ropes course, and greeting an old camper -- now 40 years old -- who with his wife -- had stopped by to sign up his two young sons for Summer 2020.Charlie RichardsonDirector of Education and OperationsCharlie has been an integral member of the KWE family since 1983. He has had a number of roles over the years: Leadership School (then LDI) educator, Kieve counselor, Leadership School director, and Kieve director. He is involved in helping to provide the best educational experience for each and every person and group that comes to our incredible campuses. He is a 1984 graduate of Bates College and has an M.Ed from Cambridge College. In the community Charlie has been a board member at the Central Lincoln County YMCA and board member and chairman of the Nobleboro School board. His teaching and administrative experience have taken place in the Hull Public Schools in MA, the Linsly School in Wheeling, WV, and McDonogh School in Owings Mills, MD. He now resides year round at Kieve with his wife Annie.Kieve Wavus Education is a nonprofit organization that helps people grow through experiential programs led by inspirational role models.Located on Damariscotta Lake in rural Midcoast Maine, KWE runs three primary programs across two main campuses: Camp Kieve for Boys, Wavus Camp for Girls and The Leadership School. In addition, KWE hosts a variety of retreats for a diverse set of groups throughout the year. All KWE programs promote the values of kindness and respect that empower people to contribute positively to society.

September 5, 2019

My Maine Summer: Charlie Richardson ’84 and an ‘education at any time’

September 5, 2019

Campus Construction Update: Sept. 6, 2019

September 4, 2019

Convocation speaker Dolores Huerta to the Class of ’23: ‘We have the power’

August 30, 2019

My Maine Summer: Kate McGowen Wing ’01 and the family lobster-tour business

August 30, 2019

Video: The importance of shower shoes and other advice to new Bates students

August 29, 2019

My Maine Summer: Nicolas Lindholm ’86 and the wild blueberry harvest

August 26, 2019

My Maine Summer: Bill Holt ’63 and Jean Holt ’62, ‘coming home to Ocean Park’

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 21, 2019

Campus events: Sept. 3–30, 2019

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).

August 16, 2019

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