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Five Bobcats named to National Football Foundation's Hampshire Honor Society
Apr 10, 2019 IRVING, Texas -- Five seniors from the Bates football team were honored Wednesday, as the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced the members of the 2019 Hampshire Honor Society, comprising college footba...
Apr 11, 2019, 12:19pm EDT
Pelletier named NESCAC Softball Pitcher of the Week
Apr 08, 2019 HADLEY, Mass. -- Bates junior Kirsten Pelletier won NESCAC Softball Pitcher of the Week honors Monday from the New England Small College Athletic Conference, after propelling the Bobcats to a 4-0 week, including a three-game series swee...
Apr 9, 2019, 11:34am EDT
Nolan Collins named NESCAC Pitcher of the Week
Mar 11, 2019 HADLEY, Mass. -- Bates junior Nolan Collins, of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., was named the first NESCAC Baseball Pitcher of the Week of the 2019 season, announced Monday by the New England Small College Athletic Conference. Collins (...
Mar 13, 2019, 11:01am EDT
Ipswich grad named NESCAC Women's Lacrosse Player of the Week
Mar 04, 2019 HADLEY, Mass. -- Bates College senior goalkeeper Eliza Statile of Ipswich, Mass., was named NESCAC Women's Lacrosse Player of the Week on Monday, after her heroic performance in the Bobcats' 11-10 overtime win at Middlebury on Saturday....
Mar 5, 2019, 11:27am EST
Rex set to make NCAA Championship debut in the weight throw
Mar 04, 2019 LEWISTON, Maine -- Sophomore John Rex of Andover, Mass., will represent the Bates men's track and field team at this week's NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, taking place at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. Rex (Andover, Mass...
Mar 5, 2019, 11:23am EST
Bates College Women's track entering five athletes at NCAA Indoor Championships
Mar 04, 2019 LEWISTON, Maine -- The Bates women's track and field team will have five athletes competing in a combined three events at this week's NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships, hosted by UMass-Boston and taking place at t...
Mar 5, 2019, 11:20am EST
Applications to Bates College set record for second consecutive year
This week begins the home stretch of a historic enrollment season as the Bates Admission Committee embarks on its review of regular-decision applications. And it's a long stretch: For the incoming Class of 2023, Bates received a record-setting 8,222...
Mar 1, 2019, 1:57pm EST
Women's swimming to send record-matching nine student-athletes to NCAA Championships
Feb 27, 2019 INDIANAPOLIS -- The Bates women's swim team will send nine student-athletes to compete in the NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships, to be held March 20-23 at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, N.C. The Bobcats...
Feb 28, 2019, 1:19pm EST
In biomimetic experiment, cat tongues lick the competition nearly every time
Published on February 7, 2019 One day in a lab in Carnegie Hall, Ruth van Kampen '19 of Brunswick, Maine, and Josh Turner '20 of Andover, Mass., tied weights to a rectangular plastic brush and let it fall through a piece of synthetic fur, mounted ve...
Feb 14, 2019, 8:49am EST
Match students learn from Bates College debaters
Most weekends, Bates classrooms resemble ghost towns, with desks and chairs askew and semi-erased chalkboards hinting at bygone activity. One Saturday morning in mid-January, Room 300 in Pettigrew Hall was a different story. A whirl of activity desc...
Feb 4, 2019, 4:21pm EST