Stories about "Science and technology"
Campus Construction Update: Aug. 27, 2021
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 2:48 pm
With a champagne toast and synchronized chops from ceremonial ribbon-cutting shears, the Bonney Science Center was declared open for business.
Bitter experience? A student intern tests Lewiston craft beers in a Bates lab
Thursday, August 12, 2021 10:56 am
When a Lewiston craft brewery wanted a partner to research the bitterness of their beers, they turned to Bates and Purposeful Work intern Emily Tamkin '23.
Friend-to-friend lending app wins $10,000 Bobcat Ventures pitch competition
Thursday, June 24, 2021 10:39 am
Biruk Chafamo '22 has created a web application that brings an ancient, community-based lending tradition into the 21st century.
Bates bio students join greenhouse-gas project to help squelch the bovine belch
Tuesday, June 8, 2021 2:14 pm
In partnership with a Maine research lab, an innovative Bates biology course gives students up-close experience with cows and dung — all in service to a project to reduce greenhouse gas.
At Garcelon Field, a failed balloon launch in name only
Friday, May 21, 2021 10:32 am
A student club's high-altitude balloon launch — minus its payload — offers a chance for some Commencement-season ruminations on the value of failure.
Campus Construction Update: May 20, 2021
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 2:37 pm
In yet another sign that Bonney Science Center construction is winding down, much of the construction-site fence is gone — notably, the stretch obscuring the Campus Avenue facade, the new building's visual calling card.
Clay play: Learn about the stubborn and slick earth beneath Bates
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 4:45 pm
Bates and Maine have a historic love-hate relationship with marine clay, aka the Presumpscot Formation.
Here’s what the NASA astronaut said to the Bates sophomore STEM students
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:36 pm
NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara joined a sophomore science class as part of program that seeks to disrupt the "weed-out" approach to STEM education.
Notorious (but harmless) pathogens preserved in Bates professor’s new-found World War I slides
Friday, November 13, 2020 11:13 am
A trove of wartime microscope slides include specimens of gonorrhea, diphtheria, tuberculosis, meningitis.
2019 Commencement speaker Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize
Friday, October 9, 2020 12:16 pm
Doudna, Bates' 2019 Commencement speaker, won the Nobel for co-discovering CRISPR-Cas9 technology, now in use in Bates classrooms.