Stories about "The College"
Bates receives record number of applications for the Class of 2028

Friday, March 8, 2024 1:30 pm

The incoming class that arrives at Bates College in August will be drawn from the largest applicant pool in the college’s history, totalling 10,029 applications, marking the third straight year of record-high applications to Bates. 

Picture Story: Feel the ‘Alumni Magic’ as women’s basketball team wins two NCAA games

Friday, March 8, 2024 12:50 pm

Enjoy this immersive photography capturig two great days to be a Bobcat as the Bobcats won two NCAA tourney games in the place they say has "Alumni Magic."

Bates College women’s basketball team reacts to being selected to participate in a NCAA tournament during a watch party in Commons 221 on February 26, 2024. (Theophil Syslo | Bates College)
Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Thursday, March 7, 2024 10:11 am

Not much snow, but enough. Lots of winning (there’s never enough, but…

Recalling when venerable Alumni Gym had a 6-foot growth spurt

Friday, March 1, 2024 12:47 pm

On the eve of Bates hosting two rounds of the NCAA women's basketball tournament, we look back to when the Bobcats earned the right to host the first-ever home NCAA tourney game, but had to hit the road — because Alumni Gym was 6 feet too short.

Slideshow: Leap year’s here, so let’s leap back 20 years

Friday, March 1, 2024 12:42 pm

Photographs taken on leap day from 2024 back to 2004.

Campus Construction Update: Feb. 28, 2024

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 7:39 am

Campus Construction Update returns with a look at Bates’ latest student residence — a former convent now being renovated for an August reopening.

7–8pm | MLK Day Spoken Word Festival Presentation: The Multifaith Chaplaincy convenes an evening of powerful words and uplifting songs to celebrate the many voices of the movement that propelled Martin Luther King Jr. We will hear from poets, spoken word artists, and musicians, including original works by students, faculty, and the evening’s special guest, Maya Williams, poet laureate of Portland, Maine. Jakob Adler ’24, Aidan Richmond ’24, and Jerry Brogan, Prelude Ian-Khara Ellasante, Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, poetry; Alexandra Nevarez ’24, poetry; Caroline McCarthy ’26, poetry; Ahmednoor Hassan ’27, poetry; Bora Laguna ’25, poetry; Raymond Clothier, associate mutlifaith chaplain; Brittany Longsdorf, multifaith chaplain.
Slideshow: This Month at Bates

Friday, February 2, 2024 4:51 am

The past month featured a fierce storm and the usual January snow, but also a thought-provoking Bates MLK Day keynote and several stirring art installations and exhibits. Plus a big Bates' win over Colby in men's basketball.

Bates Magazine: Fall 2023

Wednesday, January 31, 2024 4:57 pm

Here’s a flip version of the most recent issue of Bates Magazine,…

Picture Story: A winter night for the arts

Friday, January 26, 2024 11:16 am

From Coram Library, home of the new Immersive Media Studio, to Olin Arts Center, flung open for Open Studio night, the campus was alight with the arts on a winter night.

Bates professor lands $415,000 grant to research ‘dramatically understudied’ protein that could be involved in major neurological conditions

Friday, January 26, 2024 5:00 am

The National Institute of Health grant will fund research by Martin Kruse that seeks to learn if a not-well-understood cellular protein plays a role in neurological conditions like epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease.

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