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Advice from new graduates to new students: Here’s what you should explore at Bates

June 13, 2025

We asked 14 Bates seniors, in their waning hours as resident experts on all things Bates, to tell us what the Class of 2029 should explore when they get to campus.

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June 18, 2025

2025 Green Innovation Grants support sustainability projects for theater, the Bates garden, and more

June 13, 2025

Bates announces inaugural Athletics Hall of Fame class

June 13, 2025

Picture Story: You can’t rain on this Alumni Parade

June 12, 2025

Six alumni honored at Reunion for contributions to Bates and the world

June 9, 2025

Bates College announces senior leadership transitions

Sadie Williams, Ralph Steadman’s daughter and the managing director of the Ralph Steadman Art Collection, circulates on in the main gallery where an exhibition of her father’s work, “Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing,” opens tomorrow, June 6, 2025, and runs through Oct. 11, 2025, in the Bates Museum of Art. This extensive traveling exhibition spans over 60 years of Ralph Steadman’s influential and lauded career, and features more than 140 original artworks and ephemera, including sketchbooks, handwritten notes, and personal photographs. Visitors to the exhibition will encounter familiar favorites, like the artist’s illustrations for literary classics such as Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, as well as works for activist causes, branding iconography, and even a life-sized bronze sculpture.

June 6, 2025

‘Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing’ showcases 60 years of the artist’s uncanny, unique perspective

May 30, 2025

12 tips to shape your surroundings, and your life, from Bates Commencement speaker Angela Duckworth

May 30, 2025

Picture Story: At Commencement 2025, as Ben Mays said, chilly weather but warm hearts

May 30, 2025

Picture Story: Baccalaureate 2025, to love is to heal

May 30, 2025

Bates announces seven new Fulbright Student awards for 2025–26

May 25, 2025

You can shape your situation before it shapes you, Bates grads told at 159th Commencement

May 23, 2025

Slideshow: What these Bates seniors will miss — and what they want the Class of ’29 to hear

Draft for social media post: Social post for Carmona family/to run Thursday Art: combo of Phyllis fresh art from last Thursday and vintage (2018) images of young Jose at the Commencement of his siblings Christopher and Alanis Carmona. Most Thursdays, Jose Carmona ’25 of Chicago walks a few blocks from campus to visit Carmen Thibodeau at her home. They don’t share blood, but she’s been his Lewiston grandmother the whole time he’s been at Bates. “Some of my friends know that she’s not my actual grandma,” Carmona says, but others assume it. “They’ll be like, ‘Oh, you’re going to Granny’s house today?” Even before Jose came to Bates, Carmen Thibodeau — along with her late husband Richard, who died in 2022 — has represented family to three of his siblings before him, Christopher Carmona ’18, Alanis Carmona ’18 and Carolina Carmona ’22. This weekend Thibodeau will be in the audience when Jose walks across the stage in front of Coram Library and officially becomes a graduate of Bates, and she couldn’t be prouder. Since 2014, when Christopher and Alanis arrived on campus as first years, Thibodeau has been guiding this tight knit group of siblings through their Bates experience, serving up lemonade, snacks and good advice. She’s taken them on trips to family favorites like Mac’s Grill in Auburn and the Fryeburg Fair, and other Maine highlights and offered steady, enduring support and love. Look for our full story about how this relationship started, and why it won’t end, in Bates News on Friday.

May 23, 2025

Four Bates siblings, their ‘Lewiston grandmother,’ and one last Commencement celebration

May 22, 2025

Double gold: Two Bates STEM standouts earn prestigious Goldwater Scholarships

May 22, 2025

Q&A: To Bates Commencement Senior Speaker Aanika Patel, ‘interconnectedness’ is the answer

97-year-old Ralph Sylvester, Bates Class of 1950, arrives at the Bobcat Den on Aug. 17, 2021, where he renewed a morning routine, having breakfast with Alan Kelley of Facility Services in the Bobcat Den, which reopened today at 8 a.m. after being closed since March 20, 2020, due to the pandemic. “The Den is where Ralph and I became friends,” said Kelley, who is the mechanical and electrical services manager for Facility Services. “You can see a lot of people come through the Den who you might not see on a regular basis on campus," Kelley added. "It’s great to say hi, how you doing, and fill your belly with a good meal to start your day.”

May 22, 2025

Bates receives $1.3 million bequest from a World War II vet and alumnus who fought for the underdog

May 19, 2025

The Class of 2025 Bates ivy stone shows love for Lewiston

May 16, 2025

Fishin’, singin’, campin’ — 13 joyful Bobcat sportraits from the spring season

April 5th, 2025 - Garcelon Field The women’s lacrosse team took on the Connecticut College Camels this Saturday for their Senior Day match up. The bobcats came out on top with a final score of 13-11, with Julia Roelofs ’26 scoring a buzzer beater for the game-ending goal. Bates College President Garry Jenkins and his husband were in attendance to cheer on the team and celebrate the seniors.

May 15, 2025

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

May 15, 2025

With 2025 Davis Projects for Peace funding, Axelle Tougouma ’27 aims to support refugees from Burkina Faso