Located in Lewiston, Maine, 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.
(see more)Located in Lewiston, Maine, 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.
Bates College senior Hugh Gorman spent his summer as a research trainee at Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, in Boston
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2018 Sep 19
Bates College senior Hannah Smith spent her summer working as a research assistant for Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Andrew Kennedy.
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2018 Sep 19
Bates College sophomore Hermione Zhou spent her summer examining how hundreds Chinese restaurants source their food.
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2018 Sep 19
Bates College senior Emily Lufburrow spent her summer interning Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
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2018 Sep 19
Bates College junior Grace Murnaghan spent her summer interning at RateGravity, a Boston-based mortgage services startup.
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2018 Sep 19
Bates College senior Drew Parsons spent the summer working as interns for EcoFlow, a portable power company in San Francisco.
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2018 Sep 19
Bates College senior Ben Lyons interns for Nasdaq Private Market.
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2018 Sep 19
Bates College senior Bella Stone spent her summer conducting research at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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2018 Sep 19
Bates College sophomore Eliot Chalfin Smith spent his summer teaching youth of Lewiston, Maine how to repair bicycles.
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2018 Sep 19
Bates College senior Alexia Sahue spent her summer interning at Analysis Group in Boston.
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2018 Sep 19
Gills & Guts: Bates College rising senior Michaela Pinette, a biology and economics major from Cape Elizabeth, Maine has spent her summer interning at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine.
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2018 Aug 23
Dining Services and the Bates EcoReps established the fifth-acre garden, formally called the Plot, this year as an educational program. Garden interns like Josie Gillett of Seattle and Katharine Gaillard of Boston get hands-on experience with commercial and sustainable food production practices - and the campus gets a working farm, albeit a tiny one, that one day will also serve as classroom and lab.
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2018 Aug 13
Bates College graduated 473 students from 39 states and 42 countries on May 27, 2018. Cumulatively, the Class of 2018 performed 82,000 hours of community service, exemplifying Bates' commitment to community learning and civic action.
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2018 Jul 18
Bates College's Amelia Wilhelm has been nominated for the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year Award by the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). The NCAA Woman of the Year Award honors graduating student-athletes who have distinguished themselves throughout their collegiate careers in the areas of academic achievement, athletics excellence, service, and leadership. The award has been given annually since 1991.
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2018 Jun 28
Stephen Rowe of Gambier, Ohio, has received an offer for a prestigious Fulbright Student award for the coming 2018-19 academic year.
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2018 May 29
Jack Reid of Dallas has received an offer for a prestigious Fulbright Student award for the coming 2018-19 academic year.
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2018 May 29
Caroline O'Reilly of Longmeadow, Mass., has received an offer for a prestigious Fulbright Student award for the coming 2018-19 academic year.
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2018 May 29
Cole Limbach of Los Altos, Calif., has received an offer for a prestigious Fulbright Student award for the coming 2018-19 academic year.
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2018 May 29
Grace Jurkovich of St. Paul, Minn., has received an offer for a prestigious Fulbright Student award for the coming 2018-19 academic year.
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2018 May 29
Julia Juenemann of Bethesda, Md., has received an offer for a prestigious Fulbright Student award for the coming 2018-19 academic year.
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2018 May 29
Julia Nemy of San Francisco has received an offer for a prestigious Fulbright Student award for the coming 2018-19 academic year.
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2018 May 29
Matthew Johnson of Linwood, N.J., has received an offer for a prestigious Fulbright Student award for the coming 2018-19 academic year.
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2018 May 29
Katie Hartnett of St. Paul, Minn., has received an offer for a prestigious Fulbright Student award for the coming 2018-19 academic year.
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2018 May 29
Sophie Gardephe of New Rochelle, N.Y., has received an offer for a prestigious Fulbright Student award for the coming 2018-19 academic year.
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2018 May 29
Mary Ferguson of North Andover, Mass., has received an offer for a prestigious Fulbright Student award for the coming 2018-19 academic year.
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2018 May 29
Caroline Andy of Concord, N.H., has received an offer for a prestigious Fulbright Student award for the coming 2018-19 academic year.
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2018 May 29
The following students have been named to the dean's list at Bates College for the winter semester ending in April 2018.
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2018 May 14
Angela Eustache of Lynn, Mass., a 2016 graduate of KIPP Academy, is working with YWCA in Central Maine as part of her short term program of study at Bates College. The Bates College Short Term is a five-week, intensive period of academic study, research, and exploration for students both on and off campus.
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2018 May 3
Raye Chappell, of Baltimore, a 2014 graduate of Park School, is working with Catholic Charities REPAIR program as part of her short term program of study at Bates College. The Bates College Short Term is a five-week, intensive period of academic study, research, and exploration for students both on and off campus.
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2018 May 3
Alexis Hudes, a 2016 graduate of The Park School, is working with Pine Tree Legal Assistance as part of her short term program of study at Bates College. The Bates College Short Term is a five-week, intensive period of academic study, research, and exploration for students both on and off campus.
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2018 May 3