At their sold-out show at Portland's State Theatre, Big Thief, a Brooklyn-based indie-folk band, shouted out Bates.

Over Fall Break, the Center Purposeful Work brought 14 Bates students around Boston to network with alumni in the ...

In Francesco Duina's latest collection, The Social Acceptance of Inequality: On the Logics of a More Unequal World (Oxford ...

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 she was assigned to Mexico for her first post as a Foreign Service officer, ...

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 ...

We hope you’ve had a wonderful summer! As the fall semester approaches, here are some important dates and reminders to help your students ease back into campus life. If you’d like to connect with our ...

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 ...

One of the newest buildings on campus is Bonney Science Center, which features cutting-edge teaching and research spaces for chemistry, biology, and neuroscience. Created with extensive input from ...

All Bates faculty members are scholars, but not all are public scholars. Public scholarship is research-based work for audiences beyond the academy. It can take many forms, but public scholarship ...

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 ...