Azure Reid-Russell studying abroad for 2015-16 winter semester at Bates College

2016 Feb 24

Azure Reid-Russell, the daughter of Daria A. Reid of Northport, N.Y. and John D. Russell, is studying abroad during the 2015-16 winter semester through the Bates College Junior Year Abroad program.

Reid-Russell, a 2013 graduate of Northport High School, is studying in Samoa. She is majoring in psychology at Bates.

About 60 percent of Bates juniors study abroad, and Bates offers access to study-abroad programs in more than 60 countries.

Bates is internationally recognized as a leading college of the liberal arts, attracting 2,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world. Since 1855, Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community.

With a commitment to affordability, Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender, race, religion or national origin. Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action, Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world.