We hope their words remind you why you’re on this significant journey and that you can thrive here. Read them now, or when a ...

New faculty join Bates in chemistry, religious studies, and rhetoric. Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college over ...

Armendáriz, professor of politics, was certain that she would never make a career out of studying Latin America. But, when ...

Stuart Gurley, who manages both Olin Arts and the applied music program at Bates, conducts several Bates students as they ...

Bates Swim & Dive is back – and we’re already making waves! The deck’s buzzing, the laughs are loud, and the Bobcats are ...

Raised on the shores of Lake Erie in Port Clinton, Ohio, kris, a trumpet player in their high school band, dreamed of dotting the “i” in script Ohio (BDBITL). Turns out only sousaphone players receive ...

Bates College will waive the admission application fee, beginning with the Fall 2025 pool of applicants. Previously, domestic applicants paid a $65 application fee but could request to have that fee ...

As the academic year drew to a close, the Harward Center for Community Partnerships celebrated the strength of the college’s engagement with the Lewiston–Auburn community with a string of grants and ...

In her three years at Bates, Willa Laski ’26 of Bellevue, Idaho, has never once dressed up for classes, but on May 21, the economics major showed up for a test clad in navy blue suiting from head to ...

Of the 504 seniors who crossed the Coram Library stage at Commencement to be congratulated by President Garry W. Jenkins, four had majors not offered by traditional departments like history, biology, ...

Leigh Weisenburger, who has led the Bates admission and financial aid program since 2012, will become vice president for institutional affairs and secretary to the Board of Trustees, effective July 1, ...

At the start of her Bates Commencement address, Angela Duckworth asked President Garry W. Jenkins to hold her phone, to avoid potential distractions. Then, Duckworth asked Jenkins to give her his ...