At Bates, intramural dodgeball is a big deal. Students form teams with names like "Dodgenomics" and “Springfellows," and the ...

Angel Guitcha ’27 of Accra, Ghana, and Vyshu Viju ’26 of Atlanta — have been awarded 2026 Davis Projects for Peace grants to ...

On April 10, more than 200 student researchers presented their work to the Bates community during the annual Mount David ...

How can we engage in dialogue if we come from different perspectives? These are among the questions that Shankar Vedantam ...

Hi folks! My name is Sam Skinner (he/him), class of 2026. I’m from Saint Paul, Minnesota, where I first got into the outdoors by exploring our terrific state park system. If I’m not in the most ...

During the first-ever Bates Curates event in March, faculty, staff, and students, and President Garry W. Jenkins, became “curators” as they gathered to select a new addition to the Museum of Art’s ...

I am a scholar of Chinese literature and culture and am interested broadly in the practices of reading, writing, publishing and performance in the 16th to 19th centuries. Drawing on archival research ...

An architectural rendering of the future Stoddard Fitness and Well-Being Center, designed by internationally acclaimed Sasaki Associates Inc., the same firm that gave Commons its distinctive look and ...

An extended research project on a topic relevant to East Asian society and culture that adopts one or more of the disciplinary approaches represented in the Asian Studies curriculum. Students register ...

Brett Karpf ’26 walks to make sense of the world. He walks because he loves to walk. And he walks because he has to, for reasons he’s still trying to understand. Beginning in August, fully funded by a ...

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 ...

Sociology is the study of social behavior, human society, and interactions. The Department of Sociology focuses on how social structures shape lives and influence behavior from the hyper-local level ...