Stories about "Academic Life"
$1.34 million NSF grant positions Bates as leader in solar-terrestrial physics in Maine
Friday, April 26, 2024 10:48 am
Bates will use the grant to appoint a professor in solar-terrestrial physics, a field that explores interactions between the Sun and Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere. The faculty position will be the first of its kind at a Maine college.
Mary Louise Kelly, journalist and co-host of NPR flagship program ‘All Things Considered,’ to deliver 2024 Bates Commencement Address, joined by honorands Richard Blanco and Clayton Spencer
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 9:58 am
Set for May 26, 2024, the 158th Bates College Commencement takes place on the Coram Library Terrace on the Historic Quad.
FAQs: What to know and expect at the inauguration of Bates College President Garry W. Jenkins on May 4
Monday, April 22, 2024 10:55 am
On May 4, 2024, Bates will install a new president for only the eighth time in its 168-year history.
Picture Story: Celebrating students at Mount David Summit 2024
Friday, April 12, 2024 12:12 pm
It's a Mount David Summit tradition: students show up to support their friends who are presenting at the summit. Summing up, Adelle Welch '25 said, “It’s all about spreading the love.”
‘A really amazing thing’: The 2024 Senior Thesis Exhibition has arrived
Friday, April 12, 2024 10:03 am
Photographs and text about the eight seniors who have moved their artwork from studios into the Bates Museum of Art for the 2024 Senior Thesis Exhibition — a "moment that validates what is possible."
At Bates, new approaches to teaching STEM subjects yield dramatic results
Friday, April 5, 2024 10:49 am
At Bates, new approaches to teaching STEM subjects have yielded dramatic results for all students in improved retention outcomes, particularly within its population of Black and Hispanic students.
Bates in the News: March 29, 2024
Friday, March 29, 2024 2:01 pm
A Bates couple married on Valentine’s Day 71 years ago, neuroscientist and author Lisa Genova ’92 explains why it’s OK to forget what you had for dinner, and $2.2 million grant to scientist Prerana Shrestha ’03 to study PTSD.
Refusing to let the killers have the last word, survivors of the genocide in Rwanda share their story with Bates students
Friday, March 29, 2024 5:00 am
Three survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide visited with Bates students this week, sharing how their stories of survival and reconciliation ensure that the killers do not "have the last word.”
From Bates History: inaugural keys, silver chalice, and a 1908 Rand Hall midnight party
Friday, March 15, 2024 2:38 pm
A few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and elsewhere on campus, including a Peter Gomes '65 chalice and a 1908 midnight party by the women of Rand Hall.
Solidarity, empathy, and political agendas: Bates professor explains how and why Irish famine relief ‘went viral’
Friday, March 15, 2024 1:00 pm
Anelise Hanson Shrout's new book about Ireland’s Great Famine documents the first instance of large-scale international philanthropy — and the reasons behind it.