Stories about "Academic Life"
Bates in the News: March 27, 2020
Friday, March 27, 2020 10:47 am
As COVID-19 affects study and work, we revisit Bates history, celebrate fellowships and promotions, and follow a Bates alum reality star.
Bates professors’ humorous movie-trailer videos brighten the move to remote learning
Friday, March 27, 2020 9:34 am
As Bates faculty pivot to online teaching, making "trailers" offers fun and catharsis.
Picture story: A community rallies as students depart campus
Monday, March 23, 2020 12:18 pm
Compelling and poignant photography by Phyllis Graber Jensen captures a historic community effort to support students leaving campus due to the COVID-19 crisis.
From Bates history: 32 Bates women who inspire, give hope, and make us proud
Friday, March 20, 2020 1:17 pm
Here's an inspiring catalog of accomplished and pioneering Bates women from the first century of the college — writers, scientists, artists, social-justice activists, doctors, academics, and a Marine.
What can we learn about apologies from the #MeToo moment?
Friday, March 13, 2020 9:17 am
Psychology professor Georgia Nigro and three Bates students break down public apologies, then ask what makes an apology effective.
To succeed in an environmental career, pick a problem and become an expert, say Bates alumni
Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:35 pm
Dive deep into your chosen field by getting involved both locally and internationally, and by keeping tabs on a rapidly changing world.
The case of the missing buds in the Library’s Lost & Found, March 11, 2020
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 1:49 pm
“I think I’m on the phone with someone’s mom,” said a wide-eyed Jaimin Keliihoomalu ’21 of Kapolei, Hawaii, thus beginning the case of the lost Bluetooth ear buds.
My Last Year of Teaching: ‘I really love the one-on-one interaction’
Friday, March 6, 2020 10:38 am
Jane Costlow shares stories and insights from 34 years of advising senior thesis students.
Bates students get an inside look at the law — from a Lewiston court judge, no less
Thursday, March 5, 2020 3:44 pm
Deploying decades of legal experience, Judge John Beliveau helps Bates students understand their rights and how the laws of the land came to be.
Q&A: You needn’t know Chekhov’s ‘Seagull’ to appreciate this ‘Stupid F**king Bird’
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:20 pm
When Bates director Tim Dugan saw Aaron Posner's "sort of" adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, he says, “I was immediately blown away."