The Edible Books Festival is a day of creativity and deliciousness where you get to represent a book with a food item you ...

Bates Professor Halbert Britan’s talk on falling in love captivated audiences nationwide in 1921. Now, on Valentine's Day, ...

How do the language learners’ perceptions of competence or incompetence impact their engagement in a digital storytelling project? In a chapter of the new work, The Politics of Incompetence: Learning ...

James Michael Morrison, known affectionately as Jim by his loved ones, passed away peacefully on January 7, 2025, in Litchfield, Maine, after a brief battle with pancreatic and biliary cancer. Born on ...

The Public Speaking and Presentation Studio (PSPS) is located in the Peer Learning Commons in Ladd Library. The studio was established as part of a grant award from the Davis Family Foundation. It was ...

A pictorial 50-year history of a one-of-a-kind college tradition, the Puddle Jump, with the bookend editions of 1975 and 2025 featuring the founders and 1978 classmates Chris Callahan, Scott Copeland, ...

Last year, Bates faculty member Brian J. Evans (Theater and Dance, Africana Studies) taught a First Year Seminar entitled “Embodied Activism.” We wrote about the course and its community-engaged ...

As Mara Tieken was beginning her teaching career in 2002, she pulled out a map of the U.S. Carefully considering where she, as a new elementary school teacher, would land, Tieken gazed past urban ...

This year’s MLK Day celebration, themed “Bending Toward Justice: Peace and Nonviolence,” brought together students, faculty, staff, and community members for art and action, discussion and debate.

Thesis bindings, invigorating sports matches, community events, and inspiring MLK Day events made January a month to remember ...

Walking to the roof of Carnegie Science Hall to visit the college's observatory feels like being in a boat — the strange ...