As the college year ticks down to a close (the end of the giving year is June 30), here’s a top-10 countdown of the Bates News stories, from last August to now, with the most views.
10. A year ahead of schedule, Bates achieves carbon neutrality (May 16, 2019)
Out of some 700 U.S. colleges and universities to sign a carbon-neutrality pledge in 2007, Bates is one of only seven to date that have reached that goal.
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9. Bates announces largest-ever group of Fulbright Student award offers (May 22, 2019)
Twenty-five Bates students and alumni have been offered Fulbright awards for 2019–20, matching the college’s record from 2017.
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8. Bates announces Commencement speaker for 2019 (March 27, 2019)
An internationally renowned biochemist, Commencement speaker Jennifer Doudna is a leading public voice in the emerging discussion of the societal and ethical implications of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology.
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7. Applications to Bates set record for second straight year (Feb. 28, 2018)
For the Class of 2023 that arrives this August, the college received a record-setting 8,222 applications, topping last year’s record total by 7 percent.
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6. An annual summer favorite, the 2019 Good Reads reading list is here (May 30, 2019)
Science fiction, magical realism, history, politics, graphic novels — whatever gets you reading till your eyes are sore or sleepy, the Bates community has a book recommendation for you.
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5. Meet Navy Capt. J.J. Cummings ’89, commander of the world’s largest aircraft carrier (Aug. 16, 2018)
The U.S. has 11 nuclear-powered carriers, and a Bates grad commands one of them: the USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s newest and the world’s largest carrier.
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U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Eric M. Butler
4. Bates announces tenure decisions and faculty promotions (Aug. 10, 2018)
The faculty promotions offer “outstanding examples of the consequential scholarship and creative work going on at Bates,” said Dean of the Faculty Malcolm Hill.
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3. Favorite 2018 images from Bates photographers Phyllis Graber Jensen and Theophil Syslo (Jan. 1, 2019)
Our fourth annual Bates Photographers’ Favorites list featured 20 photographs from 2018 that tried to answer the question, “What makes a photograph your favorite?”
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Theophil Syslo/Bates College
2. Eighteen years later, two Bates friends return to campus to tie the knot (Sept. 13, 2019)
Another summer weekend, another alumni wedding in the Gomes Chapel. But this time, we were there to tell the story, of best Bates friends who became much more.
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Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College
1. The incoming Class of 2022 “represents history” (Aug. 24, 2018)
The celebration began with a record number of admission applications. It peaked in August as the 550 members of the Class of 2022 arrived on campus.
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