A rhododendron brightens the Bates landscape. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

On the second day of the Bates Dance Festival’s Young Dancers Workshop, students in Heidi Henderson’s modern dance class begin a three week-process of “reveling in the specificity of complex movement sequencing, dancing large loopy phrases, and feeling joy.” (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

Digital age notwithstanding, the George and Helen Ladd Library has 600,000 catalogued volumes, including these books about fine arts. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

In Carnegie Science, geology major Chris Halsted ’14 of Lincoln, Mass., examines specimens gathered during a Short Term trip to Scotland’s Shetland Islands for his NSF-funded study of the burial of a 17th-century settlement by windblown coastal sand. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

Dana Professor of Chemistry Tom Wenzel consults with, from left, Zira Mollings Puentes '16 of Kingston, Jamaica, and Mira Carey-Hatch '14 of Laconia, N.H. They are synthesizing novel cavity compounds that can be used to distinguish pharmaceutical compounds with right- and left-handed forms. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)