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 ...

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

Take a full campus tour, learn about admission and financial aid in detail, speak with students working diligently on their theses and enjoy a meal in Commons! The 50th anniversary edition of the ...

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 Ladds stand with President T. Hedley Reynolds in front of the Library at the dedication ceremony, 1979. Photo courtesy of Bates College Special Collections. George and Helen Ladd, for whom Bates ...

Students in Brett Huggett’s Plant Physiology class (Bio 380) learn hands-on about how plants function. Courses offered for the current and upcoming terms can be accessed through the Garnet Gateway. To ...

All seniors interested in writing a senior thesis involving empirical research for their graduation requirement are required to submit proposals and receive approval from the department. These ...

Professor Sargent is a social psychologist by training, but with interests in political psychology. Most of his research focus is on the ways that people’s collective identities relate to how they ...

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 ...

To provide equal access, the library purchases copies of all required texts and the films presented in class. Materials can be provided in print, electronic, streaming and physical sound and video ...

Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) is a deciduous tree also referred to as hard maple or rock maple. It is one of the largest and most important hardwood species in North America, typically reaching 70-90 ...

Anita is Senior Lecturer and Director of Secondary Teacher Education at Bates and previously taught high school English for over ten years. In the past, she has taught a wide variety of ages and ...