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Professor Stephanie Kelley-Romano close up at her office desk over a screenshot of the podcast player.
Angela Duckworth gestures to her right (our left) behind a podium with the Bates wordmark during the 2025 Bates Commencement address on Sunday, May 25, 2025.
With the Class of 2025 seated on the Historic Quad in the background we see Bates President Garry W. Jenkins, on right, hand over a diploma and shake hands with a smiling Bates student, on left.
A mason's hands smooths the mortar surrounding the Class of 2025 ivy stone, which shows a city street map with the shape of a heart where the Bates campus is, during its installation on Pettengill Hall.
Matthew Peeler '26 smiles as he wears a blue suit, with a white shirt and light and bright blue tie. An office building can be seen in the opaque background.
Associate Professor of Politics Clarisa Pérez-Armindáriz wearing a black sweater in front of a somewhat-erased chalkboard, teaches her "What is Populism?" class for a group of prospective students at Bates College.
The Bates Bobcat opens up their laptop to check on their application status while Bates friends look on in support.
Bates lacrosse player (Jersey #6) runs through a lacrosse stick "tunnel" before their game against Plymouth State.
Aerial shot of Bates College in fall with the "Fulbright Top Producer: U.S. Student Program 2024-2025" badge in the lower right hand corner.
A young woman films a performance on her phone during the Winter A Cappella Concert in Bates' Peter J. Gomes Chapel
On a bright sunny day with a blue sky, members of the Bates Outing Club stand by the edge of the Puddle Jump area in the middle of Bates’ Lake Andrews, affectionately nicknamed, “the Puddle.”
A young woman wearing a coat and scarf carries a bright red TWA bag during a brief snow squall storm on the Bates College Quad.
Misaki Fukushima, a Hirasawa Scholar from Tokyo, performs a dance in Gomes Chapel while wearing a bright blue dress.
Drone shot of sunrise over Bates College. QuestBridge and Bates logos in white can be seen in the lower left and lower right respectively.