With practice, Black overcame her fear and became dedicated to sharing the beauty of the National Park System with visitors.

Carrie Cushman joined the college as director of the Bates College Museum of Art in August. She came to Bates from the ...

A selection of recent mentions of Bates people in the news, including coverage of new poetry from a faculty member along with ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News will introduce ...

Bates College is launching a new advising partnership with Matriculate, a national nonprofit that connects high-achieving, low-income high school students with near-peer mentors to support their path ...

Our full Men’s and Women’s schedules for the 2025–26 season are now live: Please mark your calendars for our big rivalry ...

Associate Professor of Economics Sandra Goff has received a National Science Foundation grant award supporting her research ...

Bates College will waive the admission application fee, beginning with the Fall 2025 pool of applicants. Previously, domestic ...

A scholar from Kenyon College, Professor of Mathematics Carol Schumacher, is coming to Bates to give two back-to-back talks ...

The Green Bike Program from Bates EcoReps has returned for the season! A bike lock key can be checked out at the Circulation ...

Please join us (and a feathered friend) for our page turning of John James Audubon’s Birds of America, Wednesday the 17th at ...

This week Bates President Garry W. Jenkins joined Stefanie Manning, Maine Trust for Local News’ managing director, for a public conversation about his leadership and journey to Bates.