We pay tribute to the late, remarkable Jimmy Carter, who died today at age 100, by recalling his historic visit to Bates in 1985 to honor his friend Edmund Muskie '36 and to praise the greatness of ...

Professor Coombs and coauthors’ paper, “Early Withdrawal of Pandemic Unemployment Insurance: Effects on Employment and Earnings,” was cited in the 2025 Economic Report of the President, a prestigious ...

In the final week of classes this December, 15 students in Professor Kyle Coombs’ Data Science for Economists course dedicated 48 hours of their unscheduled time to a collaborative hackathon. The ...

While writers and producers are often represented as the predominant creators of television, in his new work, Television Directors, Race, and Gender: Written Out of the Story, Professor of Rhetoric, ...

Dr. Harry Herbert grew up in Austin, Texas, where he dreamed of attending a big Texas University, but his college journey took an unexpected turn when he discovered the impersonal nature of large ...

Originally born in Wisconsin amidst the “Big 3 C’s” (cows, corn, and cheese), Hajna grew up in the forests and fields of both Wisconsin and Central Maine – eventually graduating from a small, rural ...

Bates College received Ginkgo seeds from Hiroshima, Japan in September 2024, thanks to the initiative of Alan Wang ’24, and collaboration of Raymond Clothier (Associate Multifaith Chaplain), Hanna ...

Amidst the last week of classes in December, fifteen students committed their unscheduled time for 48 hours to the final project for the course, Data Science for Economists. The project? A hackathon!

Below is the ongoing list of our team’s results for the 2024-2025 season.

The DAVIS PROJECTS FOR PEACE program is an invitation to undergraduates at the American colleges and universities in the Davis United World College Scholars Program to design grassroots projects that ...

A Bates education is realized in community. We build our community with care and attention, seeking individuals—students, faculty, and staff—who will together create a whole that is greater than the ...

Your 50th Reunion is the perfect time to leave a lasting legacy for Bates. Eleven of your classmates have included Bates in their financial or estate plans, making them members of the Phillips Society ...