Stories about "Awards"
Six alumni honored at Reunion for contributions to Bates and the world
Thursday, June 12, 2025 3:42 pm
The awards were presented during the Annual Gathering of the Alumni Association on June 7 during Reunion.
Eight Bates graduates offered Fulbright Student awards for 2025–26
Friday, May 30, 2025 10:16 am
Seven young Bates College alumni, including five newly minted graduates, have been offered Fulbright Student awards for 2025–26. Bates has been honored as a Fulbright Top Producer 14 straight years.
You can shape your situation before it shapes you, Bates grads told at 159th Commencement
Sunday, May 25, 2025 2:18 pm
Bates Commencement speaker Angela Duckworth, author of "Grit," told the seniors to embrace “situation modification” — change your physical environment, especially your phone's proximity, to protect your focus, relationships, and well-being.
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.
Six alumni recognized for contributions to Bates and wider world during Reunion 2024
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 4:16 pm
Six alumni received awards for their contributions to Bates and to the wider world during the Annual Gathering of the Bates College Alumni Association on June 8 during Reunion.
Bates announces five new Fulbright Student awards for 2024–25
Thursday, May 23, 2024 1:00 pm
Bates announces five new Fulbright Student awards for teaching and research in Cyprus, Bulgaria, Taiwan, Thailand, and Norway in 2024–25.
Bobcat Ventures pitch competition awards $15,000 in prizes to three student entrepreneurs
Friday, May 17, 2024 11:38 am
Do you need to reduce stress by organizing your time? Or perhaps you’re craving a non-alcoholic drink? Or you're keen on supporting college aspirations? If so, this year’s student winners of the Bobcat Ventures pitch competition have you covered.
New to Bates, it’s the CATSBYS and six amazing sports moments in 2023–24
Friday, May 10, 2024 1:04 pm
Bates Athletics debuted its new awards program, “the CATSBYS” (think ESPN's "Espys," with a smidge of F. Scott Fitzgerald), and put a few defining Bobcat moments from 2023–24 on center stage.
Emily Scarrow ’25, a Bates student who ‘doesn’t see any limits,’ earns Goldwater Scholarship
Thursday, May 2, 2024 10:43 am
Scarrow, who overcame a major health scare at Bates, will use the scholarship award to fund her research aspirations in medicine.
Bates professor Sonja Pieck authors award-winning book about German conservation, memory, and wounded land
Friday, April 19, 2024 4:30 pm
Sonja Pieck’s book "Mnemonic Ecologies," about the once-militarized inner German border becoming a Green Belt, tells a story of how "something healing could come out of the pain."