Our outstanding students further Bates’ mission of global engagement in meaningful ways,” says President Garry W. Jenkins, as ...

The Edible Books Festival is a day of creativity and deliciousness where you get to represent a book with a food item you ...

Please for the love of god and all things holy, get rid of this goddamn tub of cream cheese. It is unsanitary and creates a massive crowd AND MASSIVE MESS around the bagel station and toasters. It’s a ...

Mara Casey Tieken’s research focuses on racial and educational equity in rural schools and communities. Her book Why Rural Schools Matter (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), an ethnographic ...

Benjamin Mays ’20 and the Rev. Martin Luther King promised each other: He who outlived the other would deliver his friend’s last eulogy. On April 9, 1968, Mays made good on the promise. Benjamin Mays ...

Bates College is a residential college. Campus residence is required of all students except for those individuals who have been granted special permission by Student Affairs. Room assignments for ...

Class of 1936 – Governor, Senator, Presidential Candidate, Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie, Class of 1936, Governor, Senator, Presidential Candidate, Secretary of State. Edmund Sixtus Muskie was ...

LaTeX is a system for high-quality technical typesetting. Most mathematicians and many other people use LaTeX to typeset papers, exams, books, and more. The LaTeX Project Home Page has additional ...

Take a full campus tour, learn about admission and financial aid in detail, speak with students working diligently on their theses and enjoy a meal in Commons! The 50th anniversary edition of the ...

Students in Brett Huggett’s Plant Physiology class (Bio 380) learn hands-on about how plants function. Courses offered for the current and upcoming terms can be accessed through the Garnet Gateway. To ...

All seniors interested in writing a senior thesis involving empirical research for their graduation requirement are required to submit proposals and receive approval from the department. These ...

Professor Sargent is a social psychologist by training, but with interests in political psychology. Most of his research focus is on the ways that people’s collective identities relate to how they ...