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The College's 155th Commencement will look a little different, but most of it remains the same.The chairs on the Historic Quad, walking across the steps of Coram, your classmates and friends, family, and representatives of the faculty are here. This certainly has been a challenging year, but we know it was also filled with joys and successes.You have all worked so hard to get to this day and we are ready to celebrate your accomplishments.To members of the Bates community and beyond, we invite you to join the celebration with as it streams live on our website at bates.edu/commencement/live and on our Facebook page.Parents and loved ones, if you wish share memories or congratulate your student, use the #Bates2021 hashtag and we'll share our favorites!⁣Link to watch our livestream is in our bio. ⁣(Theophil Syslo/Bates College)#Bates2021 #BatesCollege #Commencement #Classof2021

With a doubleheader Commencement on May 27, Bates celebrates Class of 2021

May 27, 2021

After a year's absence, Bates celebrated an in-person Commencement on May 27, featuring two ceremonies on a bluebird day with all the comforts of familiar rituals, including words of wisdom and love.

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June 30, 2021

Campus Construction Update: July 1, 2021

June 30, 2021

Announcing the 25th annual Bates College summer book list

June 24, 2021

Bates in the News, June 24, 2021

Just July. Or as Professor of French and Francophone Studies Kirk Read says: “We are in that month we wish could last forever.”Hathorn Hall and Historic Quad

June 24, 2021

Bates College Board of Trustees elects two new members

June 24, 2021

Video: ‘Nostalgic bookends’ as seniors lead Bobcats to fourth straight NCAA rowing title

June 24, 2021

Friend-to-friend lending app wins $10,000 Bobcat Ventures pitch competition

June 24, 2021

A Bates family story, of father and a daughter, and ‘how far we’ve come’

Scenes from on and around Lake Andrews, aka The Puddle, on the morning of Wednesday, One 9, 2021.Ducks

June 23, 2021

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Students work out on equipment moved from the Davis Fitness Center onto tennis court No. 1 in the Merrill Gym on Sept. 30, 2020.Hannah West '21 pressing 135 lbs, and squatting/streteching

June 10, 2021

Bates Athletics announces four facilities improvements for summer 2021

June 10, 2021

Video: For Erick Gredonia ’21, dance creates the ‘best version of myself’

June 9, 2021

Aiming for ‘different’: the story behind the 2021 ivy stone

June 8, 2021

Bates bio students join greenhouse-gas project to help squelch the bovine belch

June 4, 2021

Then and Now: Bates buildings and places, Reunion 2021 edition

June 4, 2021

Slideshow: Joy, exultation in Bates’ fourth straight NCAA rowing title

June 3, 2021

On the finale of HBO’s ‘Mare of Easttown’: Richard of Bates?

June 3, 2021

Picture Story: ‘Gems of love, gems of endurance’ at Bates Commencement 2021

May 28, 2021

Video: Complete 2021 Commencement video

May 28, 2021

Video: ‘Holy moly!’ Homespun congratulations from Bates folks

May 28, 2021

Professor Emeritus of Biology Robert M. Chute, ‘scientific poet’ and environmentalist, dies at age 95

Campus scenes on Sept. 8, 2020.Beverly Vari and Hoi Ning Ngai, colleagues at the Bates Center for Purposeful Work, hold their weekly check-in meeting on the Historic Quad.Besides talking strategy and tactics — from how to expand employment opportunities for students to following up on summer internships — they also “catch up on how we’re engaging in self-care — especially given the challenges of operating in a pandemic,” says Ngai. Prioritizing health and well-being is not just personal: “It’s a way to model that mindset for students as they become professionals.”

May 28, 2021

‘I hate grass’: Confessions, quirks, and authenticity from Hoi Ning Ngai’s Baccalaureate Address