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Bates College ranks fourth in the nation in Fulbright U.S. Student awards

February 15, 2019

With 13 awards this academic year, Bates has now earned Fulbright Top Producer honors for eight straight years, including a No. 1 ranking in 2017-18.

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March 22, 2019

In 1940, pilot Catherine Winne ’41 was the first Bates female student to take to the skies

March 22, 2019

18 items in the library’s Lost & Found on March 20, 2019

Visiting Assistant Professors of Economics Kurzfeld's class on"Crime, Punishment and Rehabilitation" attended by Joyce Vance , where she participated in a panel. She talked about the work she did on penal reform in Alabama when she was the US Attorney for the Northern District. From Kurzfeld:The class on Thursday meets in Pettingill G50 at 1:10. The other two members of the panel are Joseph Jackson, Director of the Maine Prisoner's Advocacy Coalition, and Jesse Archer, a local defense attorney. Joseph is an African American man who was incarcerated in Maine State Prison for 20 years, including time in solitary confinement. He founded the first chapter of the NAACP in the Maine prison system, was the first inmate in the MSP to complete a Master's degree while incarcerated, and has since his release become a leading advocate for improved conditions for prisoners in Maine. He also works with the Maine Inside Out program, which uses theater to help incarcerated youth find their voice and their place in their communities. Jesse Archer is a criminal defense attorney who has been very interested in the racial inequities he has observed in his work in the local courts, including the racial disparities in jury representation, among other issues.She will speak tonight on The Mueller Investigation and the Rule of Law: A talk by Joyce White Vance 82, Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law, Culverhouse School of Law, University of Alabama. Vance is a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama and frequent legal commentator for MSNBC. An entry in the Harward Center for Community Partnerships Theory Into Practice series. FMI 207-786-6202.Muskie Archives

March 22, 2019

Joyce White Vance ’82: Whatever Mueller report says, rule of law stands strong

Convocation, held at 11 a.m. today on the Historic Quad, “provided Bates with an opportunity to welcome the Class of 2022, to celebrate the opening of the college, and to consider, as a community, our shared goals and hopes for the academic year,” said President Clayton Spencer..Led by the College Mace Bearer Michael Murray, Phillips Processor of Economics, the Convocation procession included President Spencer, Student Body President Walter Washington '19 of Fleetwood, N.Y., and Associate Professor of History Joe Hall..According to Spencer, “the College has resuscitated what was once a Convocation tradition at Bates: asking the outgoing senior class to select a faculty speaker for the incoming freshman class.” In this case, the Class of 2018 chose Hall to address the Class of 2022 -- and the entire Bates community. His talk was titled, “Questions for Bates.”.Immediately following Convocation, members of the Bates community attended a brief tree-planting ceremony, on the Quad behind Carnegie Science, held in memory of those in the Bates community who died during the past year. The ceremony was followed by a lunch will be served on the Library Quad for the college community.

March 20, 2019

Video: For Walter Washington ’19, “it started with taking an opportunity”

March 15, 2019

Campus Construction Update: March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019

Video: It’s a goaltender timeshare for Bates men’s lacrosse

March 14, 2019

Bates in the News: March 15, 2019

March 14, 2019

Imani Perry: What if digital activism, such as via Twitter, doesn’t really do anything?

Physics students Kingdell S. Valdez ‘19 of Andover, Mass. (gray sweater) and Cristopher Thompson '19 of Macon, Ga., (Bates track sweatshirt) pose for photographs and discuss a physics problem at the blackboard in third-floor Carnegie Science physics lab on March 7, 2019.They are working on a collaborative physics senior project, doing different aspects w/similar data, turning in separate documents.

March 14, 2019

Two physics majors talk about galaxies, gas, dust, and moments “when you’re like, ‘awesome!'”

March 14, 2019

Does gossip matter? The evolution of libel, slander, and reputation in Great Britain

March 11, 2019

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

March 8, 2019

Q&A: Katie Burke ’03 on how company culture can be a weapon or asset

March 7, 2019

Q&A: Director Tim Dugan on the racial tension and theatrical ethics of ‘We Are Proud to Present’

March 7, 2019

Campus Construction Update: March 8, 2019

March 5, 2019

Look What We Found: Wes Chaney’s historical contracts

March 5, 2019

Video: Kudzaiishe Irene Mapfunde ’19 discovers how students learn from each other

John Gillespie '80

March 1, 2019

John Gillespie ’80 elected next chair of the Bates College Board of Trustees

February 28, 2019

Applications to Bates College set record for second consecutive year

February 28, 2019

Recalling when Bates fought, yet benefited from, a racist debate organization

February 28, 2019

Did you know: In 1922, Bates College founded the Maine high school basketball tournament