Shortly after Courtney Smith joined Bates in the fall of 2024 as an associate professor of theater, he floated an idea for a ...

A selection of recent mentions of Bates people in the news, including coverage of a mother-daughter basketball record, an ...

At the 20th annual Trashion Show, students and faculty modeled 16 elaborate runway designs crafted from trash to draw ...

Bates Swim & Dive opened the season with two great meets against Wheaton and Wesleyan – and with no surprise, the Bobcats ...

In “Economic Sociology,” Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina presents students with a social and philosophical question. “I ask, ‘How many of you like a lot of inequality?’ Usually ...

To establish first-time parent access in the payment portal, your student must log into the portal using their Bates credentials and add you as an authorized user. You’ll then receive an email ...

At Bates’ 159th Commencement on Sunday, May 25, Commencement speaker Angela Duckworth began her address with one simple request to members of the audience: to take out their phones and hand them to ...

On Wednesday afternoon, just as Kamala Harris began her concession speech at Howard University, three Bates politics professors talked about the various outcomes and implications of Tuesday’s election ...

The vote by the Bates faculty, 40 years ago in the Filene Room in Pettigrew Hall, wasn’t even close: 58–27 in favor of making the submission of SAT scores optional for admission. It was the vote heard ...

During the summer after her first year at Bates, Paige Magid ’24 of Washington, D.C., was on vacation in New Orleans with her dad when they passed a restaurant just as an employee ran outside yelling ...