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Bates faculty member Kati Vecsey helps give voice to a fellow Hungarian’s right-to-die case

November 16, 2023

Dániel Karsai, a Hungarian human rights lawyer, has ALS and wants the right to die with dignity. Vecsey, a Bates faculty member and voice expert, is helping him voice his case before the European Court for Human Rights, Nov. 27–28.

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December 8, 2023

Bates in the News: Dec. 7, 2023

December 8, 2023

The 15 most-viewed BatesNews stories of 2023

December 8, 2023

What It Took: Erin Reed ’08 on a journey of compassion, community, and loving Lewiston

December 7, 2023

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

December 1, 2023

What gives? Ideas from the Bates Alumni Holiday Gift Guide

Aleisha Martinez Sandoval ’26 of of Edinburg, Texas, (left) and Caroline Cassell ’24 of Woodstock, Vt., listen in rapt attention to Otis speaker Nancy Campbell in a Dana Hall classroom as Campbell explains a writing exercise. Campbell met with Director of Student Writing and Lecturer in Humanities Bridget Fullerton and the peer-writing tutors at 4:15 in Dana 204.

November 30, 2023

By agreeing to abandon one word, Bates peer tutors gain insight into the power of language

November 29, 2023

Q&A: On the job with Alex Provasnik ’25, good chemistry in the Bates ceramic studio

November 17, 2023

Say What? Quotable quotes from Bates folks: Nov. 17, 2023

November 16, 2023

Slideshow: Plastic-bag swan, name-tag kilt, and cardboard giant on stilts elevate the Trashion Show

November 15, 2023

Bates professor wins national mathematics teaching award

Associate Professor of Mathematics Katy Ott teaches “Mathematics for Justice" course in Carnegie 339 on Thursday, Sept. 28, at 1:10 p.m. MATH 233 - Mathematics for Social Justice This course teaches quantitative literacy, critical thinking and problem solving skills in a socially relevant context. Students use mathematics as a powerful analytic framework for understanding and developing realistic solutions to issues of social, political, and economic justice. The overarching goal of this course is for students to develop the ability and inclination to use mathematics to understand, and improve, the world around them. Prerequisite(s): MATH 106. Recommended background: MATH 205.

November 15, 2023

In Katy Ott’s math classroom, stress = low and learning = high. Here’s her winning equation

November 10, 2023

A Veterans Day moment at Bates, ‘all that has been sacrificed and shared’

November 10, 2023

12 new CatFacts: Field hockey’s amazing, historic season

November 9, 2023

Ladd Library Lost & Found: October 2023

November 9, 2023

Hilarious and provocative, ‘The Thanksgiving Play’ is a Bates production that ‘has to be done’

November 3, 2023

Bates in the News: Nov. 3, 2023

Last night was a sweet treat. The kids had an absolute blast and we think the trick-or-treaters had fun too. Thanks to the @batesharward Center, the City of Lewiston (@officiallewistonme), and The American Red Cross for helping us host such a special event for our community. We could see on our students' faces how healing it was to help bring some joy to our beloved city and home. President Garry W. Jenkins and his husband Jon Lee also joined in on the fun helping Bates students hand out the many pieces of candy made available at the event. We also want to thank all the families for coming out and sharing your Halloween with us.

November 3, 2023

‘We appreciate this so much:’ a gift of smiles on a frosty Halloween evening

“The brightness that shines through the dark of a tragedy such as we have suffered here in Lewiston, our home, is what it always is in times like these: the immense capacity of our shared humanity,” said Bates President Garry W. Jenkins in his remarks during today’s Vigil for Grief and Remembrance, held at 4:30 p.m. in Gomes Chapel on the one-week anniversary of the shootings in Lewiston. Led by the Rev. Brittany Longsdorf, the college’s multifaith chaplain, the vigil gave the campus community an opportunity to come together for silence, candle lighting, poetry, and interfaith prayers, and, ultimately, to share communal grief with their Lewiston community. Welcome & Naming Grief: Brittany Longsdorf, Multifaith Chaplain and Visiting Lecturer in the Humanities Bates President Garry W. Jenkins Remarks Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline’s Remarks Invitation for Sharing: Brittany Longsdorf *Barry Music* (single floor mic, guitar output) Reading of the Names: Brittany Longsdorf and Raymond Clothier, associate multifaith chaplain •Tricia C. Asselin •Peyton Brewer-Ross •William Frank Brackett •Thomas Ryan Conrad •Michael R. Deslauriers II •Maxx A. Hathaway •Bryan M. MacFarlane •Keith D. Macneir •Ronald G. Morin •Joshua A. Seal •Arthur Fred Strout •Stephen M. Vozzella •Lucille M. Violette •Robert E. Violette •Joseph Lawrence Walker •Jason Adam Walker •William A. Young •Aaron Young *moment of silence* & closing, begin to pass candle lighting READINGS (all from Lectern mic unless noted) Aneeza Ahmad ‘25 of Sharon, Mass., and Alaina Rauf ‘25 of Yarmouth, Me., of the Bates Muslim Student Association Sophie Leight ‘26 of Easton, Md. Venerable Tenzin Dasel, ‘88 - volunteer spiritual advisor and founder of the Maine Mindfulness Project and is an active retreat leader and speaker in the International Network of Engaged Buddhists Levi Mindlin ‘24 of Portland, Ore - song (single floor mic, guitar output) Ethan Baker ‘24

November 3, 2023

Generosity, care, and kindness remind us ‘to hold onto hope’ in the wake of tragedy

November 2, 2023

This Month at Bates

November 1, 2023

Mic’d Up: As volleyball’s libero, Ellie Asada is ‘smooth like butter’