We are looking forward to welcoming Bates families and friends to campus in May to celebrate the Class of 2026. We will ...

Welcome to the Winter 2026 semester! We hope you had a good break, and we hope you are excited to start a new semester. We write with some important information to assist you in getting situated for a ...

The Room Change Process allows upper-division students to change their housing assignment and move into new spaces that open over the course of the semester. The Room Change Process operates on a ...

View the schedule for this year's observance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, centered on Sunday and Monday, Jan. 18–19. In 2025, Bates social media shared more than a thousand of posts. Here ...

Mercury is a naturally occurring element that is found in air, water, and soil. It exists in several forms: elemental or metallic mercury, inorganic mercury compounds and organic mercury compounds.

Keep Your Content Current: Introducing the Outdated Content Report You don’t need to update your site every week — but… The WordPress Community of Practice (WP CoP) is a group of campus WordPress ...

Hot work operations include welding, brazing, torch cutting, grinding, and torch soldering. These operations create heat, sparks, and hot slag that have the potential to ignite flammable and ...

Take your trash and unusable items to the trash area. Anything in a trash bag or in the hallway is considered trash and will be disposed of. If you have large broken items please throw them out to ...

Data and computers are transforming virtually every facet of our professional and personal lives. Increasingly, they are the dominant media for how we generate, apply, and share knowledge. The fields ...

Handshake is Bates’ online tool for exploration, planning, research, and internship and job listings. Students and alumni can use the direct Bates link (handshake.bates.edu) to: create their ...

Emergency Management practitioners distinguish between “Shelter in Place” and “Secure in Place” (or “Lockdown”) notifications based on the pending threat to the community. Both are instructions to put ...