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There’s a new (Bob)cat in town!
Thursday, October 8, 2026 3:07 pm
After a year-long effort to redesign the Bobcat mascot, the new Bobcat is out and about on campus. The mascot debuted on Sept. 26 at the home football season opener.
In the News: September 2026
Thursday, October 8, 2026 1:43 pm
This news roundup includes alumni achievements from the Class of 1977 to 2026; faculty recognition, publication, and appearances; and coverage of President Garry W. Jenkins' participation in the annual Presidents' Dinner for media.
Associate Professor of English Jess Anthony ’96 delivers annual Kroepsch Award talk
Thursday, October 8, 2026 12:21 pm
Associate Professor of English Jess Anthony '96 gave a lecture for her Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching on Sept. 30. She discussed and read from her most recent novel, The Most.
On a purposeful path: Using open source materials, Jack Sapoch ’18 investigates international human rights violations
Thursday, October 8, 2026 8:22 am
As an open source investigator, Jack Sapoch ’18 uses free, online resources to investigate human rights violations, with the goal of aiding people by bringing awareness to their circumstances.
Gone for 150 years: The case of the missing constitutional articles
Thursday, October 1, 2026 2:32 pm
For the past 11 days, Ladd Library has played the role of first host to a deceptively simple exhibition touring various state cultural institutions. Starting on Sept. 21, three pages of the Maine State Constitution were on display in a glass box on the first floor of Ladd.
Jeff Price ’87 comes Back to Bates — with the Heisman
Thursday, October 1, 2026 2:22 pm
Jeff Price ’87 will bring the Heisman Trophy to campus for Back to Bates this weekend. Price was named CEO of the Heisman Trophy Trust in 2025.
Neuroscience launches seminar series with talk on brain circuitry by renowned neurobiologist Peter Strick P’98
Thursday, October 1, 2026 1:00 pm
The Bates Program in Neuroscience kicked off its new Neuroscience Seminar Series with a talk from Peter Strick P’98, Thomas Detre Professor and Chair of Neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Slideshow: This Month at Bates
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 2:39 pm
Revisit the final moments of summer, and the earliest glimpses of fall, in the first installment of This Month at Bates for the 2026–2027 year.
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.
Bates welcomes the last of this year’s new faculty
Thursday, September 17, 2026 1:21 pm
Bates welcomed 11 new tenured or tenure-track faculty for the 2026-2027 academic year, and Bates News is highlighting these faculty in three installments. Read about our new faculty here and here, and read below for the final group of new faculty this year.