Bates has once again been recognized by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for its deep level of commitment to community engagement, an honor ...

Mohammed M. Obaid Shwani ’24 has been a world traveler and an award winner since he was a teenager. In 2016, he first came to ...

Meredith Sallee ’07 is directing her decades of dance experience toward a new medium of underwater dancing, which combines ...

A selection of recent mentions of Bates people in the news, including professors sharing research, alumni achievements across ...

We are looking forward to welcoming Bates families and friends to campus in May to celebrate the Class of 2026. We will ...

Welcome to the Winter 2026 semester! We hope you had a good break, and we hope you are excited to start a new semester. We write with some important information to assist you in getting situated for a ...

Join us for our livestream coverage — beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 31, 2026 — of the 160th Bates College ...

You can shape your situation before it shapes you, Bates grad… Bates Commencement speaker Angela Duckworth, author of "Grit," ...

The Room Change Process allows upper-division students to change their housing assignment and move into new spaces that open over the course of the semester. The Room Change Process operates on a ...

Mercury is a naturally occurring element that is found in air, water, and soil. It exists in several forms: elemental or metallic mercury, inorganic mercury compounds and organic mercury compounds.

Keep Your Content Current: Introducing the Outdated Content Report You don’t need to update your site every week — but… The WordPress Community of Practice (WP CoP) is a group of campus WordPress ...

Hot work operations include welding, brazing, torch cutting, grinding, and torch soldering. These operations create heat, sparks, and hot slag that have the potential to ignite flammable and ...