Structural racism and a “survival of the fittest” mindset in STEM education won’t be undone by waving an academic wand. It takes work — and listening to brave students. Here’s what Bates has been up to.

A residential area just north of campus, Montello is the name of a street, a rise of land familiar to generations of Bates joggers, and once home to two commercial mineral springs.

At campus gatherings celebrating professors who have retired over the last two years, colleagues offered tributes that show how teachers affect eternity — and also the daily lives of their former students.