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Move-In DayThe Class of 2023 arrives on campus. Students move into their new residences, attend meetings, eat lunch, pick up AESOP equipment, hear the President's Greeting on the Historic Quad, and say goodbye to their families.

Slideshow: Hour by hour with the Class of 2023 on Opening Day

August 29, 2019

Opening Day sets the tone for these new Bobcats. In the words of longtime dean James Reese, it's a day when the message is, "Everyone’s in!”

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December 5, 2019

Bates Magazine: Fall 2019

December 4, 2019

Countdown! The Top 10 Bates Instagram posts for 2019

December 3, 2019

From the Archives: Hazing paddle, cigarette card, and huge peace sign

December 2, 2019

Q&A: ‘We’re made to communicate with song,’ says Joëlle Morris, new choir director

November 22, 2019

Carl Benton Straub, professor and dean with a pivotal effect on Bates’ academic character, dies at age 83

November 22, 2019

Six texts by Carl Benton Straub honoring Bates people, places, and institutional moments

Bates Den Deliver Service in operation between 9-10 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. Serving as the CEO this year is Grace Warder '20 of NYC, and taking the orders and making the deliveries tonight are Olivia Kranefuss '22 of Madison, N.J.,in the corduroy shirt and Elly Beckerman '22 of Washington, D.C., in glasses. All three women are environmental studies majors. Roman Hudgins of Dining Services is shown handing over an order to Kranefuss who bikes to her fist delivery at Parker, passing through the Library Quad, both on the Quad and the Library Well. Beckerman makes a delivery to Frye Street and bikes across the Historic Quad to get there. And Harley Rinehart, in gray shirt and garnet hat takes the order from Kranefuss after she waits in line to place it.

November 22, 2019

Bates at Night: Bobcat Den Delivery warms a cold night with student snack favorites

November 22, 2019

Bates in the News: Nov. 22, 2019

November 21, 2019

Video: Jesse Saffeir ’20 and lines of poetry sparked by lines through nature

Fall afternoon on Campus, walking up the historic Quad.Hlloe Warshaw '23 of Westwood, Mass., and Ilana Rosker '23 of Lexington, Mass. They ran into each other on their way to class and parted ways once they reached Hathorn Hall.

November 19, 2019

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

As part of a team including Bates humanities librarian Christina Bell, noted childrenauthor-illustrator Anne Sibley O'Brien, and Brenna Callahan '15, Associate Professor of Psychology Krista Aronson has created the Picture Book Project: a set of interrelated resources that bring new accessibility to the world of diverse childrens books:A comprehensive collection of some 2,000 diverse books, housed at the Georgeand Helen Ladd Library, that is unique in that the books are available for anyoneto sign out; the Diverse BookFinder, a database and search language mirroring the collection, which for the first time makes diverse picture books findable by both the human characteristics and, importantly, narrative themes that recur in them; and an analytical tool, based on the DBF resources, that will enable librarians tounderstand how diversity is represented in their own childrens sections.

November 19, 2019

In its third year, Bates’ Diverse BookFinder is more accessible than ever

November 14, 2019

My Last Year: ‘Trying to get too much done in too little time’

November 14, 2019

‘We had each other’s backs’: Memories from volleyball’s perfect season

November 14, 2019

Musical firsts take Miura from Prague to the Left Coast and shakuhachi to shamisen

Jim Weissman '84, Chief Business Officer at Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is establishing a scholarship in honor of tCharles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Tom Wenzel, who is teaching for his last year in 2019-20. The scholarship fund will benefit summer research opportunities, an area that Tom, when asked, would like to see funded through philanthropy. Jim was one of Tom's thesis students whose work was subsequently published.Also in the photographs, posed in laboratories in Dana Chemistry, are Kyoko Weissman, Jim's wife and Associate Professor of Chemistry Matt Côté along with the following chemistry students:Jake O' Hara '21 in green, Shanzeh Rauf '21 in purple, Maddie Murphy '20 in stripes, Owen Bailey '22 in stripes, and Nick Jones /20 in red.

November 14, 2019

A national award and Bates tribute to legendary chemistry professor Thomas Wenzel

November 8, 2019

What’s in a Bates Name: Libbey

=Economics class sends team to Fed Challenge at Federal Reserve Bank in BostonThe course is “Central Banking and the College Fed Challenge” taught by visiting professor Michael OseiCourse meets Tue-Thur, 11-12:20, Pettigrew 300, The final team will be chosen on 10/31.11:05: Five-person team has moot presentation on Tues, Nov. 5.The team goes to the 2019 Boston Regional Fed Challenge competition at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on Friday, Nov. 8. Other students will go to Boston and support the team.The team presents their views on the ideal course of U.S. monetary policy and field questions from outside economists. Here is a report containing the class’s views on the current state of the U.S. economy and the outlook as of Oct. 14.If they win, the team will then advance to the National Competition at the Board of Governors in Washington D.C. Heads-up: so a total of 26 teams (23 University/College teams and 3 community colleges) have registered for the competition. Here are the lists:Presenters (5)Jackson DavisRyan RigioneThomas DodgeJonathan NicholsJames MacDonaldSophie Matt (alternate)Espen Wheeler (run slides)Jeff Yang (participant)Ethan Johnson (participant)Chris Bierwirth (driver)

November 8, 2019

At the College Fed Challenge, Bates students learn about ‘the economy we live in’

A panel of Bates alumni discuss entrepreneurship: from building their own businesses, supporting their communities, and more!They will share stories of entrepreneurship, managing failure and adversity, and offer advice on how to develop these skills so vital to making a difference in any setting or industry. This event also kicks off Bobcat Ventures, Bates’ entrepreneurship program that provides students with skills, training, and mentorship culminating in a pitch competition. Students of all majors, years, and interests are invited to participate!Introducing the panel is Allen Delong, Senior Associate Dean, Center for Purposeful WorkPanel from left:Moderator, Chris Barbin '93, Bates Trustee and Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Partner at GGV Capital ;Mbali Ndlovu '12, Founder of LukafitMichelle Pham '15, Account Manager at Google Julia Sleeper '08 Founder and Executive Director of Tree Street Youth

November 8, 2019

Advice from Bates entrepreneurs: Find a need, talk to customers, and get a return

November 7, 2019

Q&A: ‘Chasing Portraits’ brings Rynecki ’91 full circle, back to Bates

November 6, 2019

Video: How to make the yummy Bates Bobcat sandwich