Singer-songwriter Alisa Amador ’18 loves a liberal arts approach, and it didn’t end for her when she graduated from Bates.

At the 29th annual Otis Lecture, Bonnie Newsom,  gave a talk entitled “Holding Ground: Wabanaki Archaeology as Resilience ...

Bates Dance Festival is a unique opportunity to have a complete immersion experience as a core component of the Bates Dance experience. The Bates Dance Festival brings together an international ...

After graduating from Bates, Jacqueline Coraci ’26 moved far away — 5,526 miles away from Lewiston, to be exact, to Yaoundé, Cameroon. It was a bit vertiginous, then, to find herself chatting and ...

In late October 1947, more than 200 fires in southern and coastal Maine burned 205,678 acres, leveling nine towns and destroying more than 1,200 homes and seasonal cottages. It was the worst natural ...

Lewiston is the second-largest city in Maine. It’s on the Androscoggin River, about 40 miles north of Portland, Maine’s largest city. Lewiston and neighboring Auburn, are former mill towns with French ...

Since the 1870s, engraved plaques, known as ivy stones, have been installed in the brickwork of Bates campus buildings to honor each graduating class. The class ivy stone is installed in the senior ...

For non-emergencies, our preferred communication method is via website, text or e-mail. Calling in non-emergency work requests is less efficient and can result in miscommunication. If you have an ...

Anthropologists investigate cultural variation, with particular attention to race, gender, ethnicity, political and social change, and human evolution. Anthropology is the study of what it means to be ...

Students run our organic, no-till garden. Affectionately called ‘The PLOT’ (People Learning Outside Together), our produce goes directly to Bates Dining to be served in Commons. Recent harvests have ...

The Ladds stand with President T. Hedley Reynolds in front of the Library at the dedication ceremony, 1979. Photo courtesy of Bates College Special Collections. George and Helen Ladd, for whom Bates ...

Leaves: alternate, simple, evergreen, elliptical, leathery, and have entire margins;¾ to 4 inches long, and 1 to 2 inches wide. Twigs: long, narrow, and glabrous ...