The College provides both a short-term and long term disability benefit should you have a prolonged illness or injury. Short-term disability provides for benefits of 75% of an eligible staff member’s ...

The vibe at this year’s MLK Day keynote was the “fierce urgency of now,” as keynote speaker Erica Chenoweth and Bates ...

For her distinguished approach to education and commitment to students’ success, Tieken is the recipient of this year’s ...

Bev Johnson is a biogeochemist who uses a host of geochemical techniques to explore environmental change over a range of temporal and spatial scales. She specializes in the use of stable carbon and ...

One of the most meaningful moments in the Bates Commencement ceremony is the address delivered by a senior class member. The senior speaker reflects on their Bates experience and speaks on behalf of ...

The learning goals articulated below provide our students a framework for contextualizing and learning the fundamental knowledge needed to complete the biology major and to become prepared for future ...

Established in 1996 by a gift from Margaret V. B. and C. Angus Wurtele in loving memory of their son, Philip, Class of 1995, who died attempting to rescue an injured climber on Mt. Rainier, the Philip ...

My research focuses on the physics of matter cooled to just barely above absolute zero, and explores the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) terrestrially and in microgravity. I perform ...

Katharine Ott is originally from Cumberland, Maine. She graduated from Middlebury College in 2003 and completed her Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Virginia in 2008. Katy spent three years ...

Click here to learn more about the current requirements for declaring a History Major, and to access the downloadable form. The vibe at this year’s MLK Day keynote ...

Below is the beginning of a timeline about the history of psychology, both a history of the field as a whole and a history of the field at Bates. Four students (Helen Chyz ’14, Mary Millard ’14, Naima ...

Professor Baker teaches a wide range of courses including: Religion, Violence, and Nonviolence; Hebrew Bible; New Testament; Eve, Adam, and the Serpent; Jews and Judaism in Antiquity; History of Early ...