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The nearly 200 educators from across the country who gathered this week at Bates College for the Gordon Research Conference came to share new research on ways to make biology education more inclusive, diverse, and accessible in a setting aimed at fostering intense and intimate collaboration. From left, Gordon Research Conferences participants and biologists Madison (“Maddy”) Meuler of Allen Institute (current)/University of Washington (former), Omar Quintero of the University of Richmond, April Hill of Bates College, and Samiksha Raut of the University of Alabama at Birmingham head to lunch in Commons after a morning session in the Olin Arts Center. Hill is Bates’ Wagener family professor of equity and inclusion in STEM
Bates professors prove key players in national gathering on social justice in biology education

Thursday, June 29, 2023 10:11 am

Three Bates professors worked as key players at this week's Gordon Research Conference on equity and inclusion in STEM reflecting the school's reputation for “doing a lot of work now on how we talk about power and privilege across all majors,” said Carrie Diaz Eaton, Bates associate professor of digital and computational studies — and one of the conference’s co-chairs.

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.

PHOTO DATE: November 05, 2018LOCATION: NBL - Pool TopsideSUBJECT: 2017 ASCAN class members Warren Hoburg and Loral O'Hara (Blue Team) during ASCAN EVQ NBL 3 training.PHOTOGRAPHER: Josh Valcarcel
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.

Video: Bates professors share what hasn’t changed during remote learning

Friday, April 10, 2020 12:14 pm

Faculty are still grading, still holding office hours, still exploring their fields in class — and amazed how Bates students have “stepped up to the plate.”

Bates STEM faculty offer insights to students about coronavirus outbreak

Thursday, February 6, 2020 11:38 am

From perspectives of mathematics and microbiology, Bates professors guide students to better understanding of this winter's novel coronavirus.