Stories about "Science and technology"
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.
A tuna tournament helps Michaela Pinette ’19 get in tune with purposeful work
Friday, August 10, 2018 10:29 am
Michaela Pinette '19 wasn't expecting a summer of sifting through bloody tuna parts for science, nor enjoying it so much.That's the beauty Purposeful Work.
Bates wins $1 million grant for equity-driven STEM innovations
Thursday, July 5, 2018 9:23 am
The grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will fund the transformation of STEM culture at Bates to fully support all students in the sciences.
Bates alumna Amelia Wilhelm wins nomination for NCAA Woman of the Year
Thursday, June 28, 2018 3:03 pm
A Bates rower, Wilhelm is praised as thoughtful, positive, and exceptionally gifted as a chemistry honors major who conducted Lyme disease research.
Bates in the News: June 28, 2018
Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:38 pm
Netflix options an alumna’s book, a professor explains Trump’s victory, and an alumnus argues that tech and humanities can save each other.
Bates Club of Antarctica, and the professors who got them there
Friday, May 25, 2018 10:41 am
Before they attached video cameras to whales or sampled ancient glaciers, Bates' Antarctic researchers worked closely with their professors.
Watch the ‘power of Bates science’ rocket into space Monday morning at 4:39 a.m.
Friday, May 18, 2018 8:43 am
Monday's launch takes a Bates physics experiment to the International Space Station. For one alumnus, it's "all about the power of science at Bates."