Stories by Emily McConville
When legal nonprofit needs French language interpreters, Bates students step in
Friday, November 9, 2018 12:50 pm
French and francophone studies majors volunteer to interpret during asylum seekers' meetings with their potential lawyers, in a partnership that has only grown.
Bates politics professors offer a post-election brief on immigration, gender, and the rural-urban divide
Friday, November 9, 2018 12:11 pm
Democrats are able to debate issues like healthcare on their terms, while conversations about immigration have moved to the right, say Bates politics professors.
On Election Day, students help each other get out the vote
Friday, November 9, 2018 11:08 am
“We want to make sure there’s no way a student goes through their day at Bates today not knowing that it’s Election Day.”
Want some insight into the 2018 midterms? Look through the lens of gender.
Friday, November 2, 2018 3:05 pm
Associate Professor of Politics Leslie Hill on the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, the politics of gender in the midterm elections, and a class project on voter engagement
What I Mean When I Say: Charles Nero and ‘Camp’
Thursday, October 25, 2018 1:36 pm
Think Judy Garland, Meet Me In St. Louis, and, maybe, gentrification.
In state-of-the-art labs, Bates alumni work toward Ebola treatments
Friday, October 12, 2018 9:17 am
Two Bates alumni try to understand how Ebola and its relatives infect cells — and what we can do to stop it.
Bates in the News: Oct. 12, 2018
Friday, October 12, 2018 8:55 am
NBC takes to the air with a Bates student pilot, and two alumni connect on a story about football concussions, thanks to a Reunion connection.
How do we know what we’re seeing? A Bates professor finds out
Thursday, October 4, 2018 1:17 pm
Michelle Greene and a colleague created a mathematical model of how our brains process the world around us.
40,000 feet in the air, a Bates team observes a distant galaxy
Friday, September 28, 2018 9:08 am
Physics professor Aleksandar Diamond-Stanic secured seats for his research students aboard SOFIA, the world's largest airborne observatory.
What I Mean When I Say: Stephanie Pridgeon and ‘testimony’
Thursday, September 27, 2018 10:18 am
”It gets into some pretty juicy issues of identity politics and the ways in which people understand themselves.”