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Brian John Staskawicz ForMemRS is professor of plant and microbial miology at the University of California, Berkeley and scientific director of agricultural genomics at the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI).

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90-451: Staskawicz was educated at Bates College (BA, 1974), Yale University (MS, 1976) and the University of California, Berkeley where he completed a PhD in plant pathology in 1980. Staskawicz has made many seminal contributions to the understanding of infection strategies of plant pathogens and immune response of plants. These include the cloning of the first pathogen effector gene and

180-453: A cupola and a weathervane . In 1889, Bartlett Doe, a wealthy San Francisco businessman who was a Parsonsfield native son, purchased the land and donated funds to repair and remodel Seminary Hall, adding its rear wing and front bell tower . His gift provided for the construction of a new dormitory, to which a large annex was added in 1896. He also established a school endowment of $ 100,000. Parsonsfield Seminary closed in 1949. The facility

270-471: A high school within the United States , and meets all of the demonstrated need for all admitted students, including admitted international students. Bates does not offer merit or athletic scholarships . Bates is often the most expensive school to attend in its athletic conference. It has the second-lowest percentage of Pell Grant recipients in the United States, below only Fairfield University . For

360-542: A senior thesis or capstone that demonstrates expertise and overall knowledge of the Major , Minor or General Education Concentrations (GECs). The Senior Thesis is an intensive program that begins with the skills taught in the first-year program and concludes with a compiled thesis that stresses research and innovation. A feature of a Bates education is the Honors Program which includes a tutorial-based thesis modeled after

450-838: A 133-acre main campus and maintains the 600-acre Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area , as well as an 80-acre Coastal Center fresh water habitat at Shortridge. The eastern campus is situated around Lake Andrews, where many residential halls are located. The quad of the campus connects academic buildings, athletics arenas, and residential halls. Bates College houses over 1 million volumes of articles, papers, subscriptions, audio/video items and government articles among all three libraries and all academic buildings. The George and Helen Ladd Library houses 620,000 cataloged volumes, 2,500 serial subscriptions and 27,000 audio/video items. Coram Library houses almost 200,000 volumes of articles, subscriptions and audio/video items. The most notable items in

540-408: A 2001 study, Bates College's economics department was the most cited liberal arts department in the United States. Bates College has been the site of landmark experiments and academic movements. In chemistry, the college has played an important role in shaping ideas about inorganic chemistry and is considered the birthplace of inorganic photochemistry as its early manifestations were started at

630-524: A 2017 article on income inequality by The New York Times , 18% of Bates students came from the 1% of the American upper class (families who made about $ 525,000 or more per year), with more than half coming from the top 5% (families who made about $ 110,000 or more per year). According to the Portland Press Herald , Michael Bonney '80 and his wife donated $ 50 million to the college in support of

720-673: A 300-seat grand recital hall. It holds the college's Steinway concert grand piano , Disklavier , William Dowd harpsichord, and their 18th-century replica forte piano . The studios are modernized with computers, synthesizers, and various recording equipment. The center houses the departments of Art and Music, and was given to Bates by the F. W. Olin Foundation in 1986. The center has had numerous Artists in Residence , such as Frank Glazer , and Leyla McCalla . The Olin Arts Center has joined with

810-413: A central plant that provides steam for heating for up to 80% of all on-campus establishments. The central plant is equipped with a modernized biomass system and a miniature back-pressure steam turbine which reduces campus electricity consumption by 5%. The college also installed a $ 2.7 million 900kW hyper-roterized turbine that accounts for nearly one-tenth of the campus' entire energy consumption. Bates

900-573: A college degree in New England, Mary Mitchel . The college began instruction with a six-person faculty tasked with the teaching of moral philosophy and the classics . From its inception, Bates College served as an alternative to a more traditional and historically conservative Bowdoin College . There is a complex relationship between the two colleges, revolving around socioeconomic class, academic quality, and collegiate athletics. The college, under

990-482: A followed two years at the school of engineering resulting in a degree from Bates and the school of engineering. Bates is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education . The U.S. Department of Education noted the most popular majors of the 2021 graduates as: Students at Bates take a first-year seminar, which provides a template for the rest of the four years at Bates. The student selects

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1080-556: A new contract, adding a premium of $ 76,000 to their energy supply. Bates College signed onto the American College and University President's Climate Commitment in 2007. In April 2008, the college completed its dining complex named "The Commons" at a cost of approximately $ 24 million. The complex is 60,000 square feet, certified LEED Silver , and features occupancy sensors , anti-HCFC refrigerants , natural ventilation, heat islands, and five separate dining areas with almost 70% of

1170-532: A school-wide dining experience including a New England buffet and live musical performances. Martin Luther King Day at Bates is celebrated annually with classes being canceled, and performances, events, keynote talks are held in observance. It is a day marked by keynotes from well known scholars who speak on the subjects of race, justice, and equality in America. In 2016, the college invited Jelani Cobb to speak at

1260-501: A specific topic offered by the college, and works together in a small class with a scholar-in-field professor of that topic, to study and critically analyze the subject. All first-year seminars place importance on writing ability, and composition in order to facilitate the process of complex and fluid ideas being put down on paper. Seminars range from constitutional analysis to mathematical theorizing to disturbance ecology . After three complete years at Bates, each student participates in

1350-728: A stop on the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, while Oren B. Cheney was principal. Students and supporters aided fugitive slaves from the South in reaching freedom in Canada. From 1840 to 1842, the Free Baptist Biblical School , the first Free Baptist graduate school for training ministers, was located at the seminary (it was later renamed Cobb Divinity School and became part of Bates College ). Parsonsfield Seminary burned mysteriously in 1853, at midnight. The overall account of

1440-442: A themed four-day event that includes performances, dances, and games. Past Winter Carnivals have included "a Swiss Olympic skier swooshing down Mount David", faculty and student football games, faculty and administration skits, oversized snow sculptures, "serenading of the dormitories", and expeditions to Camden . When alumnus Edmund Muskie was governor, he participated in a torch relay from Augusta to Lewiston in celebration of

1530-648: A total of eleven times including 2014, 2015, and in 2016 won it again with a 24–7 win over Bowdoin, after their 21–19 home victory over Colby. According to U.S. Rowing , the Women's Rowing Team is ranked first in the New England Small College Athletic Conference, and first overall in NCAA Division III rowing , as of 2016 . In the 2015 season, the women's rowing team was the most decorated rowing team in collegiate racing while also being

1620-504: Is The Bates Student , created in 1873. It is one of the oldest continuously published college weeklies in the United States, and the oldest co-ed college weekly in the country. Alumni of the student media programs at Bates have won the Pulitzer Prize , and have their later work featured on major news sources. It circulates approximately 1,900 copies around the campus and Lewiston area. Since 1990, there has been an electronic version of

1710-489: Is also known as one of the Hidden Ivies , which includes much larger research universities such as Johns Hopkins and Stanford University . The 2024 annual ranking by U.S. News & World Report ranked Bates 24th overall best liberal arts college in the nation. Forbes ranked Bates 39th in its 2019 national rankings of 650 U.S. colleges, universities and service academies, and 11th among liberal arts colleges. Bates

1800-457: Is broken up into three terms, primary, secondary, and short term, also known as the 4–4–1 academic calendar. This includes two semesters, plus a Short Term consisting of five weeks in the Spring, in which only one class is taken and in-depth coursework is commonplace. Two Short Terms are required for graduation, with a maximum of three. The largest natural science academic department at Bates College

1890-549: Is in a former mill town , Lewiston, which has a large French Canadian ethnic presence due to migration from Quebec in the 19th century. The college is known for cultural strains with the town, with townspeople describing Bates as a "leafy oasis of privilege." The overall architectural design of the college can be traced through the Colonial Revival architecture movement , and has distinctive Neoclassical , Georgian , Colonial , and Gothic features. The earliest buildings of

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1980-501: Is most associated with the 1940s, with an increase in racial and socioeconomic homogeneity . The college began to garner a reputation for predominately educating white students who come from upper-middle-class to affluent backgrounds. The New York Times detailed the atmosphere of the college in the 1960s with the following: "the prestigious Bates College—named for Benjamin E. Bates , whose riverfront mill on Canal Street in Lewiston

2070-458: Is named after the campus' Mount David . Presentations at the summit include various discipline-centered projects, themed panel discussions , films Q & A's, as well as other activities in the Lewiston area. Started in 2002, the summit is held in Pettengill Hall, and on April 1, 2016, held its 15th summit. For the class of 2023, Bates admitted 12.1% of all applicants, the lowest-ever for

2160-542: Is split into three components, the larger Upper Gallery, smaller Lower Gallery, and the Synergy Gallery which is primarily used for student exhibits and research. Almost 20,000 visitors are attracted to the MoA annually. This conservation area of 600 acres is available to Bates students for academic, extracurricular, and research purposes. This area is mainly salt marshes and coastal uplands. The college participates in preserving

2250-477: Is the biology department, followed by mathematics, physics, and geology. The social science academic department with the highest number of majors is its economics department, followed by psychology, politics, and history. The largest humanities academic department is the English department, followed by French and francophone studies, art and visual culture, and rhetoric. The interdisciplinary academic program at Bates with

2340-618: Is where he began to engage in heated debate with them that stressed "flawless assertions" and resulted in every error made by the student to be carefully scrutinized and teased. Bates has an annual and traditional debate with Oxford , Cambridge and Dartmouth College . It competes in the American Parliamentary Debate Association domestically, and competes in the World Universities Debating Championships , internationally. The debate council

2430-516: The 1960 Winter Olympics . Robert F. Kennedy , with his naval classmates, built a replica of their boat back in Massachusetts out of snow in front of Smith Hall, during their carnival. This tradition is second only to Dartmouth College as the oldest of its kind in the United States. Students are known to participate in what has been colloquially termed as the ' Dartmouth Challenge ', which consists of alcohol related activities, closely related to

2520-663: The American Civil War , Bates graduated Brevet Major Holman Melcher , who served in the Union Army in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment . He was the first person to charge down Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg . The college graduated the last surviving Union general of the American Civil War , Aaron Daggett . The college's first African-American student, Henry Chandler , graduated in 1874. James Porter , one of General Custer 's eleven officers killed at

2610-523: The Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was also a Bates graduate. In 1884, the college graduated the first woman to argue in front of the U.S. Supreme Court , Ella Haskell . In 1894, George Colby Chase led Bates to increased national recognition, and the college graduated one of the founding members of the Boston Red Sox , Harry Lord . In 1920, the Bates Outing Club was founded and is one of

2700-606: The Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium . This is one of the oldest football rivalries in the United States. This consortium is a series of historically highly competitive football games ending in the championship game between the three schools. Bates is the holder of the winning streak, but also has the record for the biggest loss in the athletic conference. Overall the college leads the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium in wins. Bates has won this championship

2790-728: The New England Small College Athletic Conference . There are five auditioned a cappella groups on campus. The Deansmen and the Manic Optimists are all-male, the Merminaders are all-female, and the co-ed groups are known as TakeNote and the CrossTones. The formation of the team predates the establishment of the college itself as the debate society was founded within the Maine State Seminary making it

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2880-640: The Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11) Bates College Bates College ( / b eɪ t s / ) is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine , United States. Anchored by the Historic Quad , the campus of Bates totals 813 acres (329 ha). It maintains 600 acres (240 ha) of nature preserve known as the " Bates-Morse Mountain " near Campbell Island and a coastal center on Atkins Bay . Bates provides undergraduate instruction in

2970-489: The highest degree in their field . Full-time professors at the college received an average total compensation of $ 123,066, with salaries and benefits varying from field to field and position to position, putting faculty pay in the top 17% of all public and private universities. The college holds the annual Mount David Summit which serves as a platform for students of all years to present undergraduate research, creative art, performance, and various other academic projects and

3060-592: The "toughest rejection letters" in the U.S. during the late-2000s. The college later apologized and issued a statement assuring that it makes an effort to "[deny] the student's application… not [reject] the student". For the 2016–17 academic year, Bates charged a comprehensive price (tuition, room and board, and associated fees) of $ 66,550. The college's tuition is the same for in-state and out-of-state students. Bates practices need-blind admission for students who are U.S. citizens , permanent residents , DACA status students, undocumented students , or who graduate from

3150-463: The $ 300 million "Bates+You" fundraising campaign launched in May 2017. The campaign is the largest ever undertaken by the college totaling $ 300 million, with $ 168 million already raised as of May 2017 . In the aftermath of the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal , Ron Lieber of The New York Times noted that need-aware colleges like Bates and others prioritized students who could pay full tuition in

3240-694: The 1920s. In 1943, the V-12 Navy College Training Program was introduced at Bates. Bates maintained a considerable female student body and "did not suffer [lack in student enrollment due to military service involvement] as much as male-only institutions such as Bowdoin and Dartmouth." During the war, a victory ship was named the SS Bates Victory , after the college. It was during this time future U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy enrolled along with hundreds of other sailor-students. The rise of social inequality and elitism at Bates

3330-589: The Bates Action Energy Movement in which students participate in "both on-campus and nationwide environmental events and engage students with discussions on climate change and other pressing ecological crises." The Bates College Museum of Art offers programs such as the Green Horizons Program that showcase environmentalism in art, society, and culture. Parsonsfield Seminary Parsonsfield Seminary , which operated from 1832 to 1949,

3420-738: The Freewill Baptist Parsonsfield Seminary , Bates founder, Oren Burbank Cheney worked for racial and gender equality, religious freedom, and temperance . In 1836, Cheney enrolled in Dartmouth College (after briefly attending Brown ), due to Dartmouth's significant support of the abolitionist cause against slavery. After graduating, Cheney was ordained a Baptist minister and began to establish himself as an educational and religious scholar. Parsonsfield mysteriously burned down in 1854, allegedly due to arson by opponents of abolition. The event caused Cheney to advocate for

3510-774: The Maine Music Society to produce musical performances throughout Maine. Founded in 1955, the Bates College Museum of Art holds contemporary and historic pieces. In the 1930s, the college secured a private holding from the Museum of Modern Art of Vincent van Gogh 's Starry Night , for students participating in the 'Bates Plan'. It holds 5,000 pieces and objects of contemporary domestic and international art. The museum holds over 100 original artworks, photographs and sketches from Marsden Hartley . The MoA offers numerous lectures, artist symposiums, and workshops. The entire space

3600-644: The Maine State Seminary, which early benefactor Benjamin Bates would oppose. He advised Cheney to sell the land in Parsonsfield, Maine , and reconstruct it within the newly developing Maine State Seminary. Afterward, Cheney moved the central campus to Lewiston in 1854 to replace it with a larger Free Baptist school more centrally located in Maine. In 1857, a smaller seminary building was rebuilt at Parsonsfield. It had

3690-476: The United States. The campus provides 33 Victorian Houses , 9 residential halls, and one residential village. The college maintains 12 academic buildings with Lane Hall serving as the administration building on campus. Lane Hall houses the offices of the president, dean of the faculty, registrar, and provost, among others. The Olin Arts Center maintains three teaching sound proof studios, five class rooms, five seminar rooms, ten practice rooms with pianos, and

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3780-612: The United States. In February 1920, the debate team defeated Harvard College during the national debate tournament held at Lewiston City Hall. In 1921, the college's debate team participated in the first intercontinental collegiate debate in history against the Oxford Union 's debate team at the University of Oxford . Oxford's first debate in the United States was against Bates in Lewiston, in September 1923. In addition during this time, numerous academic buildings were constructed throughout

3870-419: The administration of censorship over this issue. WRBC is the college radio station of Bates College and was first aired in 1958. Originally started as an AM station at Bates, it began with the efforts of rhetoric professor and debate coach Brooks Quimby . It is ranked by the 2015 Princeton Review as the 12th-best college radio station in the United States and Canada, making it the top college radio in

3960-665: The admission process, writing that, "you can get help if you're admitted, but you might not be admitted if you need help." Though it has a large endowment, Bates has continued to struggle to set a fee schedule that students can afford. Garry Jenkins succeeded Spencer in 2023, becoming the first black president of the college. Bates is a private baccalaureate liberal arts college that offers 36 departmental and interdisciplinary program majors and 25 secondary concentrations, and confers Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees. The college enrolls 1,792 students, 200 of whom study abroad each semester. The academic year

4050-461: The building of a new seminary in a more central part of Maine. With Cheney's influence in the state legislature, the Maine State Seminary was chartered in 1855 and implemented a liberal arts and theological curriculum, making the first coeducational college in New England . Soon after establishment several donors stepped forward to finance portions of the school, such as Seth Hathorn , who donated

4140-622: The burning remains unclear, with sources varying depending on the actual occurrences. When recounting its burning, Oren Burbank Cheney stated, "The bell tower flickered in flames while the children ran from its pillar-brick walls.." The fire was believed to have killed three schoolchildren and two fugitive slaves , leading to a brief and unsuccessful investigation. The reason as to why the Seminary burned down remains unclear, with opponents of abolitionism traditionally, but not definitively, held accountable. The seminary would later go on to incorporate into

4230-466: The class of 2019 was an unweighted 3.71. The average SAT Score was 2135 (715 Critical Reasoning, 711 Mathematics and 709 Writing), and the average ACT score range was 28 to 32. Bates has a Test Optional Policy, which gives the applicant the choice to not send in their standardized test scores. Bates' non-submitting students averaged only 0.05 points lower on their collegiate grade point average . The Wall Street Journal found that Bates had some of

4320-470: The class of 2019, the gender demographic of the college breaks down to 49% male and 51% female. 27% of U.S. students are students of color (domestic and international) and 13% of admitted students are first generation to college. The educational background for admitted students is mixed: 49% of students attended public schools and 51% attended private schools . About 90% of this incoming class (of those from schools that officially rank students) graduated in

4410-691: The cloning and characterisation of one of the first plant NOD-like receptors . Staskawicz and his colleagues also played a major role in establishing Arabidopsis thaliana as a model organism to study the molecular basis of microbial recognition by plants and genetically dissect defense signaling pathways. More recently, he is leading an effort at the IGI in the genome editing of agriculture crops for biotic and abiotic stress resistance and improved plant performance. Work in his laboratory has identified and characterised bacterial effector proteins from both Pseudomonas syringae and Xanthomonas spp. Staskawicz

4500-481: The college are open 24/7 , thus requiring extra energy, due to this the college has implemented technology that places buildings on "stand-by" mode while minimum occupancy is attained to preserve energy. The practice is set to reduce the college's overall emissions levels by 5 to 10 percent. Overall, the academic buildings and residential halls are equipped with day-lighting techniques, motion sensors, and efficient heating systems. Bates expended $ 1.5 million to implement

4590-479: The college by 1943 alumnus George Hammond who was later dubbed "the father of the movement". Hammond would go on to invent Hammond's postulate , revolutionizing activation levels in chemical compounds. In physics, 1974 alumnus Steven Girvin credited his time at the college as pivotal in his development of the fractional quantum Hall effect , now a pillar in Hall conductance. During the development and production of

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4680-401: The college conducted a national search for its eighth president. In 2011, Bates made national headlines for being named the most expensive college in the U.S., which caused backlash from American academia and students as it indirectly highlighted substantial socioeconomic inequality among students. After a year-long search for the next president, Harvard University dean, Clayton Spencer ,

4770-602: The college has graduated a total of 12 Olympians, one of whom won the Olympic gold medal rowing for Canada at the 2008 Beijing Olympics . The all-time leader of the Chase Regatta is Bates with a total of 14 composite wins, followed by Colby's five wins, concluding with Bowdoin's two wins. The ice hockey team is the first team to win the NESCAC Club Ice Hockey Championships four times in a row. As of 2016 ,

4860-448: The college more diverse both racially, and socioeconomically. Elaine Tuttle Hansen was elected as the first female president of Bates College and managed the second-largest capital campaign ever undertaken by Bates, totaling $ 120 million and lead the endowment through the 2007–2008 financial crisis . The college announced her retirement in 2011, appointing Nancy Cable as interim president , to serve through June 30, 2012, while

4950-578: The college on MLK Day. The college offers students 110 clubs and organizations on campus. Among those is the competitive eating club, the Fat Cats, Ultimate Frisbee, and the student government. The largest club is the Outing Club, which leads canoeing, kayaking, rafting, camping and backpacking trips throughout Maine. Although Bates has since conception rejected fraternities and sororities, various social groups exist. Bates College's oldest operating newspaper

5040-542: The college were directly designed by Boston architect Gridley J.F. Bryant , and subsequent buildings follow his overall architectural template. Colonial restoration influence can be seen in the architecture of certain buildings, however many of the off campus houses' architecture was heavily influenced by the Victorian era . Many buildings on campus share design parallels with Dartmouth College , University of Cambridge , Yale University , and Harvard University . Bates has

5130-533: The college's overall infrastructure by building 22 new academic, residential and athletic facilities, including Pettengill Hall, the Residential Village, and the Coastal Center at Shortridge. During the 1990s (and mid-2000s), Bates consolidated its reputation of being a "playground for the elite", by educating upper-middle-class to affluent Americans, which led to student protests and reforms to make

5220-420: The college's seal or other prominent insignia. This usually occurs on graduation day, but may occur on later dates with alumni returning to the campus. This tradition is shared with the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University . On Ivy Day, members of Phi Beta Kappa are announced. This tradition is nearly a century old. The college has held, on odd to even years, a Winter Carnival which comprises

5310-411: The college, local government agencies, and other educational institutions. The Observatory is also home to an eight-inch Celestron , a six-inch Meade starfinder, and the only Coronado Solarmax II 60 in the state. As of 2017 , Bates has a faculty of 190 and a student body of 1,780 creating a 10:1 student-faculty ratio and the average class size is about fifteen students. All tenured faculty possess

5400-429: The college. During the 2018–19 admission rounds, Bates accepted seven transfer students from 205 applicants, yielding a 3.4% transfer acceptance rate. The college has had years where no transfer applicants were accepted, such as in 2016–17, where all 170 applicants failed to gain admission. The college had its highest admit rate during the 2008–2009 year, accepting 30.4% of applicants. The average high school GPA for

5490-454: The direction of Cheney, rejected fraternities and sororities on grounds of unwarranted exclusivity. He asked his close friend and U.S. Senator Charles Sumner to create a collegiate motto for Bates and he suggested the Latin phrase amore ac studio which he translated as "with love for learning" which has been taken as "with ardor and devotion," or "through zeal and study." Prior to the start of

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5580-464: The first library and academic building, which was renamed Hathorn Hall . The Cobb Divinity School became affiliated with the college in 1866. Four years later in 1870, Bates sponsored a college preparatory school, called the Nichols Latin School . The college was affected by the financial panic of the later 1850s and required additional funding to remain operational. Cheney's impact in Maine

5670-533: The first nuclear weapons during World War II, two students researching nuclear chemistry at the college were hired by the United States Army Corps of Engineers as part of the first Manhattan project scientific team. Atop the Carnegie Science Hall sits Stephens Observatory which houses the college's high-powered 12-inch Newtonian reflecting telescope . The telescope is used for research by

5760-525: The first to sweep every major rowing competition in its athletic conference in the history of NCAA Division III athletics. In 2015, the men's rowing team had the fastest ascension in rankings of any sport in its athletic conference and is the NESCAC Rowing Champion. Bates has the 4th-highest NESCAC title hold , is ranked 5th in its athletic conference and 15th in Division III athletics. As of 2018 ,

5850-627: The grade of 'A+' by Niche in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. The college holds one main dining area and offers two floors of seating. All meals and catered events on campus are served by Bates Dining Services, which makes a concentrated effort to purchase foods from suppliers and producers within the state of Maine, like Oakhurst Dairy and others. The Den serves as an on-campus restaurant. While on campus, enrolled students and faculty have access to round-the-clock emergency medical services and security protection. The college also holds an annual "Harvest Dinner" during Thanksgiving that features

5940-450: The highest number of majors is environmental studies, followed by biochemistry, neuroscience, and classical and medieval studies. Bates also offers a Liberal Arts-Engineering Dual Degree Program with Dartmouth College 's Thayer School of Engineering , Columbia University 's School of Engineering and Applied Science , and Washington University 's School of Engineering and Applied Science . The program consists of three years at Bates and

6030-641: The hole, sometimes in costumes, to celebrate, "exuberance at the end of a hard winter." By mid-evening, they celebrate with donuts, cider and a cappella performances. The college's official mascot is the bobcat , and official color is garnet. The college athletically competes in the NCAA Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), which also includes Amherst , Connecticut , Hamilton , Middlebury , Trinity , Tufts , Wesleyan , Williams , and "Maine Big Three" rivals Bowdoin and Colby in

6120-718: The humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering, as well as offering joint undergraduate programs. A baccalaureate college, the graduate program requires all students to complete a thesis before graduation, and has a privately funded research enterprise. In addition to being a part of the " Maine Big Three ", Bates competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) with 31 varsity teams, and 13 club teams. The Bates athletic program has graduated 12 Olympians and 209 All-Americans and maintains 32 varsity sports, which compete in NCAA Division III and two in Division I. While attending (and later leading)

6210-552: The idea of teacher-scholars at Bates and secured the construction of numerous academic and recreational buildings. In 1984, Bates became one of the first liberal arts colleges to make the SAT and ACT optional in the admission process. Reynolds began the Chase Regatta in 1988, which features the President's Cup that is contested by Bates, Colby, and Bowdoin annually. In 1989, Donald West Harward became president of Bates and greatly expanded

6300-404: The library's collection include copies of the original Constitution of Maine , personal correspondence of James K. Polk and Hannibal Hamlin , original academic papers of Henry Clay , personal documents of Edmund Muskie , original printings of newspaper articles written by James G. Blaine , and selected collections of other prominent religious, political and economic figures, both in Maine, and

6390-622: The men's club ice hockey team is ranked 5th in the Northeast, and 25th overall in the NECHA rankings. In the winter of 2008, the college's Nordic Skiing team sent students who were the highest-ranked skiers in the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association and placed 4th in the 2008 NCAA Division I Championship . In April 2005, the college's athletic program was ranked top 5% of national athletics programs. The men's squash team won

6480-678: The national championships in 2015, and 2016, with the winning student being the first in the history of the athletic conference, to be named the All American all four years he played for the college. The men's track field is the first team in the history of Maine to have seven consecutive wins of the state championship, a feat completed in 2016. Bates maintains 31 varsity teams, and 9 club teams, including sailing, cycling, ice hockey, rugby, and water polo. In 2005, President Elaine Tuttle Hansen stated, "Bates will purchase its entire electricity supply from renewable energy sources in Maine" and secured

6570-410: The newspaper online. The newspaper provides access free of charge to a searchable database of articles stretching back to its inception on its website. In 2021, the college administration requested the student newspaper to retract an article that focused on the ongoing unionization among faculty staff members and replace it with an article that also included anti-union arguments. Some students accused

6660-490: The oldest coeducational college debate society in the United States. It was headed by Bates alumnus and teacher Brooks Quimby and became the first intercollegiate international debate team in the United States. The Quimby Debate Society has been noted as "America's most prestigious debating society," and the "playground of the powerful." During the 1930s, the debate society was subject to 'The Quimby Institute' which pitted every debate student against Brooks Quimby himself. This

6750-484: The oldest collegiate outing clubs in the country, the first at a private college to include both men and women from inception, and one of the few outing clubs that remain entirely student run. The debate society of Bates College, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council , became the first college debate team in the United States to compete internationally, and is the oldest collegiate coeducational debate team in

6840-579: The parent ritual Newman Day , a tradition the college started in the 1970s. The carnival has been hosted by the Bates Outing Club since its conception. On the Friday of Winter Carnival, the Bates College Outing Club initiates the annual Puddle Jump. A hole is cut by a chainsaw or by the original axe used in the inaugural Puddle Jump of 1975, in Lake Andrews. Students from all class years jump into

6930-419: The plants, animals and natural ecosystems within this area as a part of their Community-Engaged Learning Program. Due to its overall size, the site is frequently used by other Maine schools such as Bowdoin College for their Nordic Skiing practices. In 2015, the college's dining program was ranked 6th by The Princeton Review , and 8th by Niche in the United States. The college's dining services received

7020-465: The school in Parsonsfield. The Seminary, at the level of a high school, was the first Free Will Baptist school in the United States and attracted 140 students, both boys and girls, in its first year. The seminary's first principal, Hosea Quimby , was active in many other Free Will Baptist organizations. The Seminary staff and students became deeply involved with the abolitionist movement and operated as

7110-435: The science, engineering, technology and mathematics fields who wish to showcase their research at professional conferences or national laboratories. Independent research grants from the college can range from $ 300 to over $ 200,000 for a three-year research program depending on donor or agency. The college's Harward Center is its main research entity for community-based research and offers fellowships to students. According to

7200-589: The top decile of their high school classes. Bates has a 95% freshman retention rate . A significant portion of 45% of all applicants, transfer and non-transfer, are from New England . About 89% of students are out-of-state, (all 50 states are represented), and the college has students from 73 countries. Bates is noted as one of the Little Ivies , along with universities such as Tufts , Bowdoin , Colby , Amherst , Middlebury , Connecticut College , Hamilton , Trinity , Wesleyan , and Williams . The college

7290-418: The universities of Oxford and Cambridge . According to the U.S. National Science Foundation , the college received $ 1.15 million in grants, fellowships, and R&D stipends for research. The college spent $ 1,584,000 in 2014 on research and development. The Bates Student Research Fund was established for students completing independent research or capstones . STEM grants are offered to students in

7380-742: The walls being glass paneling. In 2009, the college was given its third $ 5,000 grant allocation by the Hobart Center for Foodservice Sustainability which cited Bates as "having the best sustainability program among numerous entrants nationwide". In 2010, the college was named one of 15 colleges in the United States to the "Green Honor Roll", by The Princeton Review . Bates mitigates 99% of emissions via electrical consumption and purchases all of its energy from Maine Renewable Resources. The college expended $ 1.1 million of its endowment to install lighting retrofits, occupancy sensors, motor system replacements and energy-generating mechanisms. Select buildings at

7470-839: Was a well-known Free Will Baptist school in North Parsonsfield, Maine , in the United States . Also known as the North Parsonsfield Seminary, its preserved campus of four buildings is located on State Route 160 near the New Hampshire border. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Free Will Baptists developed as a movement in the late eighteenth century in New Hampshire. In 1832, Rev. John Buzzell and several other Free Baptists founded

7560-445: Was appointed as Hansen's successor. Spencer assumed the presidency in 2012, and created diversity mandates, expanded student and faculty recruitment, and financial aid allocation. While some reforms were successful, minorities at the college, typically classified as non-white and low-income students, still reported a lack of safe spaces , insensitive professors, financial insecurity, indirect racism and social elitism . According to

7650-758: Was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2019 . He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US and has been elected a Fellow of both the American Phytopathological Society and the American Academy of Microbiology . “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .” -- Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at

7740-420: Was noted by Boston business magnate Benjamin Bates who developed an interest in the college. Bates gave $ 100,000 in personal donations and overall contributions valued at $ 250,000 to the college. The school was renamed Bates College in his honor in 1863 and was chartered to offer a liberal arts curriculum beyond its original theological focus. Two years later the college would graduate the first woman to receive

7830-450: Was once Maine's largest employer—provided an antithesis: a leafy oasis of privilege. In the 1960s, it was really difficult for most Bates students to integrate in the community because most of the people spoke French and lived a hard life." During this time the college began to compete athletically with Colby College , and in 1964, with Bowdoin created the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium . In 1967, President Thomas Hedley Reynolds promoted

7920-474: Was ranked 5th nationally in 2013, the year prior year ranking 9th in the world. The class graduates participate in an Ivy Day which installs a granite placard onto one of the academic or residential buildings on campus. They serve as a symbol of the class and their respective history both academically and socially. Some classes donate to the college, in the form of gates, facades, and door outlines, by inscribing or creating their own version of symbolic icons of

8010-623: Was subsequently used by the Consolidated School District until 1986, at which time the school offices moved to new quarters. The two main buildings of the seminary and grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. To prevent the loss of the historic hilltop campus, the Friends of the Parsonsfield Seminary organized to preserve and maintain the property. The non-profit, non-sectarian organization operates

8100-738: Was the first food-service operation in higher education to join the Green Restaurant Association. In 2013, the environmental practices of the college's dining services were placed along with Harvard University , and Northeastern University , as the best in the United States by the Green Restaurant Association; it earned three out of three stars, the only educational institution in Maine to do so. Bates maintains numerous environmental clubs and initiatives such as Green Certification, which recognizes students who commit to sustainable policies and practices, Green Bike, which offers students access to bicycles for use on and off campus for free, and

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