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Bates announces Stoddard Fitness and Well-Being Center and athletics facilities upgrades

March 5, 2026

Bates is embarking on a $45 million project to update two key athletic facilities and construct a new fitness and well-being center. A gift of $10 million from Jon W. Brayshaw ’90, P’25 and Jocelyn Stoddard Brayshaw ’88, P’25 has brought the college a vital step closer to construction. The new facility will be named the Stoddard Fitness and Well-Being Center.

Students tandem biking on Bates campus

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April 9, 2026

Student-led festival brings world class film to Maine

Opening Convocation at 11 a.m. Sept. 2, 2025, on the Historic Quad, followed by In Memoriam: Tree Planting Service. Processional Welcome by President Garry Jenkins Mace Bearer Mary T. Rice=DeFosse Greetings by Zach Richards ’26 and Mohammad Zayd ’27, Co-Presidents Convocation Address “A College for Coming Times” Rebecca Herzig, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies Benediction Raymond Clothier, Interim Multifaith Chaplain Memorial Tree Planting Alongside Gomes Chapel on College Street, in memory of those in the Bates community who died during the past year. The tree was designated with a yellow bow.

April 9, 2026

Bates announces 2026 Commencement honorands, including writer Deborah Harkness

April 9, 2026

Record-breaking applications for the Class of 2030

April 9, 2026

In upcoming thesis exhibition, Bates senior studio art students each have a seat At the Table

April 8, 2026

Slideshow: This Month at Bates

March 26, 2026

Everyone is a star in ‘Everybody’

March 26, 2026

Yun Garrison wins Lee Young Leadership Award from YWCA

March 26, 2026

‘Equally at home everywhere’: Brett Karpf ’26 wins Watson Fellowship

March 26, 2026

In the News: March 2026

There's something quietly radical about handing the keys of a museum's permanent collection to its community — about saying, this decision is yours. Bates Curates is an intimate evening built around exactly that. Curator Samantha Sigmon will guide attendees through three photographs by Shellburne Thurber — works that linger in doorways and dim interiors, that hold the weight of lives lived just out of frame — before opening the floor to a vote that will shape the museum's collection for good. Organized in conjunction with Shellburne Thurber: Full Circle, on view through March 21. Made possible by the Barbara Morris Goodbody Collection Endowment Fund.

March 26, 2026

Night at the museum: The community curates Museum of Art’s permanent collection

March 5, 2026

First-generation student mentors help peers navigate academics, social life at Bates

Over the woodlands brown and bare, over the harvest-fields forsaken, silent, and soft, and slow descends the snow. — Longfellow Back on campus after the February freak storm, Bates feels suspended between motion and stillness; cars crunch in half-melted tracks, boots drip by radiators, flights and plans still catching up somewhere in the clouds. Some of us are here, some are delayed, and the quiet holds space for both. It’s a strange return; rushed arrivals, late-night drives, weather maps open on our phones, yet the air itself feels calm, like the world pressed pause just long enough for us to notice it. The paradox is real; chaos in the forecast, steadiness on the quad. Snow does that. It softens edges, lowers voices, makes even a campus full of movement feel like it’s breathing slowly.

March 5, 2026

February at Bates

February 26, 2026

The ‘limitless curiosities’ of Bates’ Watson finalists

February 26, 2026

Bates announces tenure and promotion for nine faculty members

February 26, 2026

Bates professor, students study ancient climate with Arctic sediment cores

Filmmaker Sandi DuBowski screen his film Sabbath Queens to members of the Bates community on Feb. 4, 2026 in the Keck Classroom of Pettengill Hall. Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Stephanie Pridgeon introduced the film and launched a conversation with the filmmaker that included a Q&A with audience members, who included members of the Religion Department Cynthia Baker, Alison Melnick, and Halla Attallah. SABBATH QUEEN, a feature documentary filmed over 21 years, follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. SABBATH QUEEN joins Amichai on a lifelong quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual, challenge patriarchy and supremacy, champion interfaith love, and stand up for peace, ceasefire, and an end to the Occupation in Israel/Palestine. The film interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century. SABBATH QUEEN is directed and produced by Sandi DuBowski

February 12, 2026

Filmmaker’s visit creates a full circle moment

February 12, 2026

‘Frost and Furious’: Time again to celebrate the annual Winter Carnival

February 12, 2026

In the News: February 2026

LOVE/ SICK By John Cariani Directed by Martin Andrucki Scenery and Costume Design by Christine McDowell Lighting Design by Michael Reidy PLAYWRIGHT'S NOTE: LOVE/SICK is a .. . nine-play cycle about love and loss-but mostly loss. Each play has its own arc and tells the story of a couple at a crossroads in their relationship. Since each relationship is more advanced than the previous relationship, a larger arc emerges and the individual plays work together to create a satisfying whole that chronicles the life cycle of a typical relationship from meeting through divorce ... and afterwards. TIME: 7:30 pm on a Friday night in June. PLACE: An alternate suburban reality. Play 1. "Obsessive Impulsive." WOMAN, Emily Diaz '23; MAN, Brady Chilson '23 Play 2. "The Singing Telegram." LOUISE, Alex Gilbertson '22; TELEGRAM MAN, Losseni Barry '22, Play 3. "What?!?" ANDY, Noah Pott '22; BEN, Lucas Allen '22 Play 4. "The Answer." KEITH, Kush Sharma '23; CELIA, Sadie Basila '23 Play 5. "Uh-Oh." SARAH, Emily Diaz '23; BILL, Rishi Madnani '23 INTERMISSION Play 6. "Lunch and Dinner." MARK, Brady Chilson '23; KELLY, Sadie, Basila '23 Play 7. "Forgot." KEVIN, Kush Sharma '23; JILL, Olivia Dimond '22 Play 8. "Where Was 17" LIZ, Muskan Verma '21; ABBIE, Hale Murch '22 Play 9. "Destiny." JAKE, Rishi Madnani '23; EMILY, Alex Gilbertson '22

February 12, 2026

Beloved and brilliant Martin Andrucki, Dana Professor Emeritus of Theater at Bates, dies at age 80

February 12, 2026

Meet new faculty in physics, economics, and earth and climate sciences