Stories about "Science and technology"
Jennifer Doudna, pioneer and leading public voice of CRISPR gene-editing research, to deliver 2019 Commencement Address, joined by honorands Dolores Huerta, Travis Mills, and Megan Smith
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 9:12 am
An internationally renowned biochemist, Doudna is a leading public voice in the emerging discussion of the societal and ethical implications of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology.
Two physics majors talk about galaxies, gas, dust, and moments “when you’re like, ‘awesome!'”
Thursday, March 14, 2019 1:24 pm
Here's how doing research with a professor in a Bates lab is like "standing on the shoulders of giants."
Q&A: Katie Burke ’03 on how company culture can be a weapon or asset
Friday, March 8, 2019 9:58 am
Rather than employees who “fit” the culture, companies should seek people who add to the culture, says Burke, chief people officer at HubSpot and College Key Alumna in Residence.
Campus Construction Update: March 8, 2019
Thursday, March 7, 2019 2:12 pm
The week of March 18 is when you’ll see the first bold strokes in the creation of Bates’ new science building.
NESCAC Chill Poll for Jan. 31, 2019: The Polar Vortex edition
Friday, February 1, 2019 12:10 pm
Bates and NESCAC dodged the worst of the polar vortex cold (this time), but we're simpatico with our neighbors to the west.
Campus Construction Update: Jan. 18, 2019
Thursday, January 17, 2019 1:52 pm
A second Renewable Fuel Oil burner in the campus heating plant has helped Bates cut its greenhouse gas emissions to a mere 5 percent of 2001 levels.
In telling climate stories, who’s in and who’s out? asks Otis speaker Elizabeth Rush
Friday, November 2, 2018 11:13 am
For Rush, author of the acclaimed Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, offering the 2018 Otis Lecture was a homecoming of sorts.
In state-of-the-art labs, Bates alumni work toward Ebola treatments
Friday, October 12, 2018 9:17 am
Two Bates alumni try to understand how Ebola and its relatives infect cells — and what we can do to stop it.
40,000 feet in the air, a Bates team observes a distant galaxy
Friday, September 28, 2018 9:08 am
Physics professor Aleksandar Diamond-Stanic secured seats for his research students aboard SOFIA, the world's largest airborne observatory.
Meet Navy Capt. J.J. Cummings ’89, commander of the world’s largest aircraft carrier
Thursday, August 16, 2018 12:41 pm
The U.S. has 11 nuclear-powered carriers, and a Bates grad commands one of them: the USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s newest and the world’s largest.