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 ...

Dear Members of the Bates Community, Like many of you, I have been following the recent executive orders and policy changes from the White House and working to understand their potential impact 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 ...

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 ...

Oh, what a divine and soul-warming experience it was to indulge in that most glorious, life-affirming, and downright celestial creation—a hearty vegetable soup that could make even the most skeptical ...

Cole Hastings is the lab instructor for the introductory sequence of physics courses (sequence for life sciences and physical sciences), as well as the lab instructor for the intro to astronomy course ...

For the 2024-25 academic year, the catalog is only available in PDF format. View the 2024-25 Bates College Course Catalog. The 50th anniversary edition of the Puddle Jump was for young and old, ...

Mike Retelle has taught courses that focus on Earth surface environments and records of environmental change. His courses included Earth Surface Processes (Geo 103), Sedimentology (Geo 210), and ...