On April 17, Bates’ graduating studio art and visual culture students will step outside of their studios to share their work ...

The Bates Film Festival always features Maine-based filmmakers and actors. Last festival David Camlin and Megan Grumbling ...

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 ...

The application pool for the Class of 2030 is the largest in Bates’ history with a total of 12,009 applicants seeking ...

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 ...

Bates will recognize four honorary degree recipients during Commencement on May 31, including Commencement speaker Deborah ...

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 ...