The Edible Books Festival is a day of creativity and deliciousness where you get to represent a book with a food item you ...

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 ...

LaTeX is a system for high-quality technical typesetting. Most mathematicians and many other people use LaTeX to typeset papers, exams, books, and more. The LaTeX Project Home Page has additional ...

The 50th anniversary edition of the Puddle Jump was for young and old, highlighted by the hand-in-hand kickoff jump by the event's founders, Chris Callahan ’78, Scott Copeland ’78, and Lars Llorente ...

Short Term at Bates — four weeks at the height of Maine’s spring, from late April through May — is a time for intense, focused work. You’ll live and breathe one class, and one class only. It’s an ...

Mike Retelle has taught courses that focus on Earth surface environments and records of environmental change. His courses included Earth Surface Processes (Geo 103), Sedimentology (Geo 210), and ...

Virtual reality, or VR, refers to computer-generated simulations of 3D environments that users can experience in an immersive way through specialized headsets or head-mounted displays (HMDs). Mixed ...

Purposeful Work at Bates is about helping students discover the joy and power that arise from aligning who they are with what they do. It helps students identify and cultivate their interests and ...

Cole Hastings is the lab instructor for the introductory sequence of physics courses (sequence for life sciences and physical sciences), as well as the lab instructor for the intro to astronomy course ...

Bates Professor Halbert Britan’s talk on falling in love captivated audiences nationwide in 1921. Now, on Valentine's Day, Bates students Hannah Kothari ’26 and Ramona McNish ’28 revisit Dr. Love's ...

As the teaching assistant for the psychology department, Brian assists students and faculty with a variety of technical issues. The 50th anniversary edition of the Puddle Jump was for young and old, ...

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 ...