Alexandra DeMarco

ademarco2@bates.edu

Stories by Alexandra DeMarco
Harward Center wraps up 2024–25 year with grants, awards honoring community engagement

Friday, June 27, 2025 9:01 am

This spring, the Harward Center celebrated the strength of the college’s engagement with the Lewiston–Auburn community with a string of grants and awards.

Outside-the-box Batesies: Meet five DIY students who created their own majors

Thursday, June 26, 2025 11:21 am

Designing new paths through the Bates curriculum, these seniors crafted interdisciplinary majors that speak to their passions and futures.

For four weeks during this year’s Short Term, 31 Bates students — biology, economics, and philosophy majors alike — caught a glimpse of careers in business while taking the Tuck Business Essentials course, offered for the first time this year in collaboration with Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Whatever their prior knowledge of business, the students showed up with critical thinking skills and eagerness to learn in-hand — hallmarks of a Bates education — says Peter Friedman ’92, who earned an MBA from Tuck in 2003 and served as practitioner-in-residence for Tuck Business Essentials. “Students were very engaged and interested in the topic, which was great,” Friedman says. “They were strong and very capable.” In these photographs, students in the Tuck Short Term prepare for and make their final course presentations, first getting ready in the Purposeful Work area of Chase Hall, and then on a Zoom call in Chase Hall Lounge.
Short Term’s crash course in business yielded big profits for Bates students

Thursday, June 26, 2025 10:03 am

This spring, Short Term offered a crash course in business with visiting faculty from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. 

At Bates, a ginkgo seedling carries survival from 1945 Hiroshima to today

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 3:55 pm

The child of a tree that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a ginkgo tree seedling growing at Bates brings a message of survival to campus.

2025 Green Innovation Grants support sustainability projects for theater, the Bates garden, and more

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 6:01 pm

The grants award up to $10,000 to fund creative sustainability solutions proposed by Bates students, faculty, and staff.

Double gold: Two Bates STEM standouts earn prestigious Goldwater Scholarships 

Thursday, May 22, 2025 3:07 pm

Bates juniors Aleisha Martinez Sandoval and Mohammed Mohammed, who are both Bates STEM Scholars with a lifelong passion for science, have earned prestigious Goldwater Scholarships.

The Class of 2025 Bates ivy stone shows love for Lewiston

Monday, May 19, 2025 3:27 pm

Designed by senior E.J. Holm, this year's ivy stone marks Bates' place in Lewiston — and Lewiston’s place in the hearts of the Class of 2025.

With 2025 Davis Projects for Peace funding, Axelle Tougouma ’27 aims to support refugees from Burkina Faso

Thursday, May 15, 2025 8:44 am

With her $10,000 grant, Tougouma will pursue a solar-powered irrigation system for Burkinabé women refugees in Ivory Coast, aiming to combat food insecurity and foster economic independence.

1. Yes, that is the course name. It is ECON/DCS 368 2. I'm working with Jacqueline Crucet in the Economic & Community Development Department. The relationship was set up by the Harward Center -- it is our second semester working together. Morgan Kinney introduced us and has been a point person to help this CEL project work two semesters in a row now. 3. The Harward Center is constantly working to set up these relationships. Jacqueline likes to work with students on these opportunities. Last semester she and I collaborated on a hackathon concerning the relationship between streetlights and crime -- I think she wanted to do another semester project after that one. 4. & 5. The data are administrative city records and census data. (Technically the census is a survey, but it is aggregated to the "block" level, which is a Census unit that roughly corresponds to a city block.) The admin data was collected by the city. It is information on each household's participation.
Bates students hack real-world problems, including lead poisoning, to help a downtown Lewiston neighborhood

Thursday, May 8, 2025 4:21 pm

With computers, community, and collaboration, recent Bates hackathons have tackled problems including exposure to lead paint in older Lewiston homes.

Matthew Peeler ’26 selected for prestigious Truman Scholarship for future public leaders

Friday, April 25, 2025 9:51 am

Since high school, Matthew Peeler ’26 of New York City has kept…

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