Stories about "Academic Life"
Reentry Sisters join Bates courses
Thursday, September 17, 2026 3:50 pm
This fall, in addition to the 552 first-year students and 13 transfer students, an additional five students enrolled in a few courses across campus: previously incarcerated women joined first-year seminars through the Reentry Sisters Alumni Scholar Program.
Creativity, compassion, and commitment: Bates welcomes the Class of 2030
Friday, August 28, 2026 1:54 pm
As Bates prepares for the 2026-2027 academic year, students from the Class of 2030 began settling into their new homes on campus on Thursday, Aug. 27.
In the News this spring: Faculty, staff, and students
Thursday, June 18, 2026 4:10 am
Faculty, staff and students in the news during Spring 2026.
Q&A: Senior speaker Sebenele Lukhele embraces Bates’ promise of celebrating differences
Friday, May 29, 2026 3:02 pm
Sebenele Lukhele ’26 of Manzini, Eswatini, will deliver the Senior Address at the 160th Commencement on Sunday, May 31.
A Short Term long on learning: Explore wide-ranging course offerings
Friday, May 1, 2026 10:13 am
Short Term, a Bates “minimester” of three-and-a-half weeks during which students take only one course, is here. Course offerings run the gamut and give students the opportunity to deeply engage with a single topic.
Explore the breadth of student research at Mount David Summit
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 2:59 pm
On April 10, more than 200 student researchers presented their work to the Bates community during the annual Mount David Summit.
Shankar Vedantam offers fireside chat on dialogue across differences
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 12:27 pm
Shankar Vedantam, journalist, author, and host of the Hidden Brain podcast, spoke about how people can communicate across differences during a Bates Open Network Dialogue event.
Yun Garrison wins Lee Young Leadership Award from YWCA
Thursday, March 26, 2026 3:25 pm
Yun Garrison, associate professor of psychology, was honored on March 8 with the Lee Young Leadership Award from the YWCA of Central Maine in recognition for her community-engaged work.
Bates announces tenure and promotion for nine faculty members
Thursday, February 26, 2026 3:56 pm
Nine members of the faculty have received promotions, including seven tenure awards, effective Feb. 6. The promotions were recommended by the Faculty Personnel Committee and approved by the Bates College Board of Trustees.
Bates professor, students study ancient climate with Arctic sediment cores
Thursday, February 26, 2026 2:03 pm
Bates students are getting a firsthand look at 7,000 years of ancient climate history with a group of lake sediment cores extracted from northern Greenland.