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 ...

A distinctive characteristic of a Bates education is the emphasis on student research. At Bates every student is a scholar: We expect students to develop the skills and background they need to ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the 2024-25 academic year, the catalog is only available in PDF format. View the 2024-25 Bates College Course Catalog. An immersive looks at how Bates student-athletes encouraged and inspired ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the teaching assistant for the psychology department, Brian assists students and faculty with a variety of technical issues. Bates Professor Halbert Britan’s talk on falling in love captivated ...

Professor Melnick Dyer specializes in the history of Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism, with a focus on the uses of hagiography and revelatory literature in the historical record. She enjoys teaching a ...