We pay tribute to the late, remarkable Jimmy Carter, who died today at age 100, by recalling his historic visit to Bates in 1985 to honor his friend Edmund Muskie '36 and to praise the greatness of ...

Professor Coombs and coauthors’ paper, “Early Withdrawal of Pandemic Unemployment Insurance: Effects on Employment and Earnings,” was cited in the 2025 Economic Report of the President, a prestigious ...

In the final week of classes this December, 15 students in Professor Kyle Coombs’ Data Science for Economists course dedicated 48 hours of their unscheduled time to a collaborative hackathon. The ...

Dr. Harry Herbert grew up in Austin, Texas, where he dreamed of attending a big Texas University, but his college journey took an unexpected turn when he discovered the impersonal nature of large ...

Originally born in Wisconsin amidst the “Big 3 C’s” (cows, corn, and cheese), Hajna grew up in the forests and fields of both Wisconsin and Central Maine – eventually graduating from a small, rural ...

While writers and producers are often represented as the predominant creators of television, in his new work, Television Directors, Race, and Gender: Written Out of the Story, Professor of Rhetoric, ...

Amidst the last week of classes in December, fifteen students committed their unscheduled time for 48 hours to the final project for the course, Data Science for Economists. The project? A hackathon!

Bates College received Ginkgo seeds from Hiroshima, Japan in September 2024, thanks to the initiative of Alan Wang ’24, and collaboration of Raymond Clothier (Associate Multifaith Chaplain), Hanna ...

We pay tribute to the late, remarkable Jimmy Carter, who died today at age 100, by recalling his historic visit to Bates in 1985 to honor his friend Edmund Muskie '36 and to praise the greatness of ...

Thirty-nine years ago, even a hurricane couldn’t stay Jimmy Carter from a self-appointed duty: coming to Bates to dedicate a new archive in honor of his good friend, Edmund Muskie ’36. As Hurricane ...

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 ...

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