A free-lance writer and editor, and formerly a writer for Bates College and various Maine publications.
“Summertime Demolition ain’t easy Hammers thumpin’ And the sawin’ is nigh” All right, so the search...
While the term “fume hood” itself doesn’t quite qualify as poetic, it’s nevertheless true that the...
The weeks leading up to Commencement have their own extraordinary excitement. It’s an electric...
Chase Hall at Bates College: beloved, iconic, historic. And user-friendly? Well, probably not —...
If every week brought the kind of excitement sparked up in late November by the hoisting of a large...
Before dawn on Monday, unseen by most members of the campus community, mechanized forces executed...
Waxing all poetic in late September, Campus Construction Update noted that “the slow pivot from...
The goals of a construction project tend to be functional. They’re often aesthetic, too — sometimes...
After 30 months of applying to the construction of Bates’ Bonney Science Center countless tools,...
Hot Quad, summer on campus: Back of our neck getting dirty and…say, what rhymes with “campus,”...
For Campus Construction Update, whose physique has been chiseled by years of lugging stepladders...
As construction of Bates’ Bonney Science Center nears completion, there’s a new development that’s...
The city of Lewiston has granted Bates a permit allowing the college to start moving equipment and...
During spring and summer 2019, as crews excavated for the foundation of the new Bonney Science...
“Mid-April will be here before we know it,” says Chris Streifel — and by then it’s likely that...
An icon of the international racial justice movement offered a timely reminder of activism’s value...
In construction as in all other spheres, there are those forces and processes one can see, and...
Completed this year after two decades of planning and construction, Bates’ restoration of the...
“Dance” is the word that members of the Bonney Science Center construction team like to use when...
The clean-shaven J.J. Cummings ’89 doesn’t look at all like Uncle Sam. But a message he gave Bates...