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January 21, 2021

Parent Campus Update – Jan. 19, 2021

Hello, Bates Families – Earlier this morning, students received an update about returning to campus for the winter semester. Please read…

April 24, 2024

Mary Louise Kelly, journalist and co-host of NPR flagship pro…

Set for May 26, 2024, the 158th Bates College Commencement takes place on the Coram Library Terrace on the Historic Quad.

April 19, 2024

Bates professor Sonja Pieck authors award-winning book about …

Sonja Pieck’s book "Mnemonic Ecologies," about the once-militarized inner German border becoming a Green Belt, tells a story of how "something healing could come out of the pain."

April 12, 2024

Those infamous 1800s pistol duels? They actually served a pur…

Even before the musical Hamilton, the Burr-Hamilton duel had most people figuring that pistol duels were deadly and irrational. But for the most part, they were neither, according to new research by Bates economist Paul Shea.