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Historic $300 million Bates Campaign has a singular aim: to ‘secure what is best and most distinctive about Bates’

May 16, 2017

The five-year Bates Campaign seeks to strengthen the college’s endowment by $160 million, more than half of the campaign's $300 million goal.

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August 18, 2017

In the eclipse’s path, these 10 Bates alumni are totally ready

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August 17, 2017

Slideshow: See how students find purpose in their Bates-funded summer internships

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August 11, 2017

When new Bates students meet Lewiston, here’s what they say

The Bates classes that celebrated 2017 Reunions, including the high-energy 5th Reunion Class of 2012, boosted their Bates Fund giving by 53 percent over 2016. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

August 10, 2017

Gifts to Bates top $27 million in 2016-17, new Bates Fund record set

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August 10, 2017

‘Tremendous teammate’ Rob Gomez ’05 forgoes race victory to help a fallen runner

Christened the Bates Computational Vision Lab, neuroscientist Michelle Greene's new neuroscience lab in Hathorn Hall includes two isolation rooms. (Doug Hubley/Bates College)

August 9, 2017

Campus Construction Update: Aug. 11, 2017

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August 3, 2017

What’s In a Name: Androscoggin

Rolls of insulation ready to be wrapped around pipes serving the Den's new HVAC system. (Doug Hubley/Bates College)

August 3, 2017

Campus Construction Update: Aug. 4, 2017

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August 3, 2017

How Bates helps Lewiston firefighters do their dangerous jobs safer and better

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July 25, 2017

Bates musician waxes elegiac on new album

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July 21, 2017

Look What We Found: Raj Saha’s water wheel

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July 10, 2017

Celebrate Thoreau’s 200th birthday with a summer poem from a Bates author

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June 30, 2017

Here’s the 2017 Bates summer reading list, suggested by faculty, staff, and alumni

Bobcat Venture Pitch Competition judge Chris Barbin '93 gives first-place winner Ali Rabideau '17 of Natick, Mass., a $9,000 check for her pitch, Herban Works, a line of home products made from medicinal herbs and flowers by at-risk women of the Center for Wisdom's Women in Lewiston. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

June 30, 2017

The major Bates College stories of 2016–17

In support of "active learning," Carnegie 339 will lose its tiered seating and lab bench -- and with them its frontward focus -- but will gain whiteboards all around and tables that enable a variety of furniture placement. (Doug Hubley/Bates College)

June 30, 2017

Campus Construction Update: June 30, 2017

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June 29, 2017

Crystal Williams appointed associate provost for diversity and inclusion at Boston University

Near Flagstaff, N.M., in 2011, on his final Short Term trip to the U.S. Southwest, John Creasy poses next to examples of "volcaniclastic" rock that's been moved or affected by wind, water, or similar action. (Photograph by Dykstra Eusden '80)

June 26, 2017

John Creasy, who ushered in the thriving modern era for geology at Bates, dies at age 71

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June 23, 2017

Slideshow: National Selfie Day lures the Bobcat from his den

It's a wrap: Booths in the Den are protected with plastic sheeting as new heating and air conditioning equipment is installed. (Doug Hubley/Bates College)

June 22, 2017

Campus Construction Update: June 23, 2017

On a balmy February day, Sadie James ’17 of Avon, Maine, skis her way to the 5K classical win at the Bates Carnival, becoming the first Bates woman in 14 years to win an EISA carnival Nordic race. (Steve Fuller ’82/Flying Point Road)

June 22, 2017

Relive the top seven Bates sports moments of 2016–17