Stories from 2025
Bates plays Big Thief — How a musical tribute is turning into tradition
Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:37 pm
At their sold-out show at Portland's State Theatre, Big Thief, a Brooklyn-based indie-folk band, shouted out Bates.
The logics of acceptance: Francesco Duina in conversation about his new book and the sociology of economic inequality
Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:27 pm
In Francesco Duina's latest collection, The Social Acceptance of Inequality: On the Logics of a More Unequal World (Oxford 2025), co-edited with Luca Storti, contributors ask why people across the world accept economic inequalities.
Picture Story: October 2025 at Bates
Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:25 pm
With images of Back to Bates, stunning foliage, fall athletics, Halloween, and more, we bring you October 2025 at Bates.
Upcoming artistic events on the Bates campus
Thursday, November 13, 2025 12:19 pm
As we near the end of the semester, Bates is offering a varied lineup of arts events for the last few weeks of the year.
Purposeful Work biopharmaceutical roadshow introduces students to dynamic career possibilities
Thursday, November 13, 2025 11:41 am
Over Fall Break, the Center Purposeful Work brought 14 Bates students around Boston to network with alumni in the biopharmaceutical industry and tour five companies.
Meet new faculty in chemistry, religious studies, and rhetoric
Thursday, October 30, 2025 4:03 pm
New faculty join Bates in chemistry, religious studies, and rhetoric. Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college over the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing them in groups over this semester. Part 1 ran in our newsletter of September 25, part 2 went out in our October 3 newsletter and Part 3 appeared in our October 10 newsletter.
Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz, professor of politics, receives Kroepsch Award
Thursday, October 30, 2025 4:01 pm
Before she joined the U.S. Foreign Service, Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz, professor of politics, was certain that she would never make a career out of studying Latin America. But, when she was assigned to Mexico for her first post as a Foreign Service officer, everything changed.
Radiohead Trending: Bates students jam in Olin with professional tribute band Fitter Happier
Thursday, October 30, 2025 3:56 pm
Her electric violin at the ready on her right shoulder, Mavy Ho-Le ’26 started to slowly tap her foot on the stage at Olin Arts Center. It was Saturday Oct. 25 and the first strains of Radiohead’s 2016 song “Daydreaming,” were beginning to emerge from Fitter Happier, a Radiohead tribute band based in Portland.
As director of first-generation programs, Misa Beltran-Guzman encourages Bates students to find their ‘why’
Thursday, October 30, 2025 1:54 pm
When he was still in high school, Misa Beltran-Guzman, director of first-generation programs at Bates, had a preview of many of the culture shocks experienced by first-gen college students.
Meet new faculty in psychology, environmental studies, and anthropology
Friday, October 10, 2025 10:45 am
Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college over the course of the 2025-2026 academic year.