Bates College will waive the admission application fee, beginning with the Fall 2025 pool of applicants. Previously, domestic ...

Please join us (and a feathered friend) for our page turning of John James Audubon’s Birds of America, Wednesday the 17th at ...

An interesting internship fact: Though he was based in New York City, Brown’s summer work stretched across the globe; he ...

In 1875, Bates and Tufts played the first college football game in Maine. Here's to football's sesquicentennial: 15 moments ...

How do you convey the deepest, sweetest batch of parental emotion to your child when you’ve just returned from a sweaty, last ...

The research team — Justin Baumann, an assistant professor of environmental studies, and his four Bates summer interns — had adjusted their expectations accordingly, but still, they found fewer blue ...

On Sept. 2, Convocation marked the entry of the Class of 2029 and transfer students to campus with wise words on finding strength in our differences, fighting for what you believe in, and maintaining ...

Since 1855, Bates College has been dedicated to the emancipating potential of the liberal arts. Bates educates the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential ...

“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple-tree is connected with that of man.” –Henry David Thoreau, 1862 The Donald Wyman Crabapple (Malus sp.), one variety of the flowering crabapple, ...

On Aug. 28, the 497 members of the Bates Class of 2029 finally arrived on campus. Current students, faculty, and staff welcomed them with open arms; it was hard to turn a corner without finding a ...