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A Student shars a magic moment on stage with the College President

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A couple of faculty members and students take cover under a poncho as rain started during the walk across campus for Honors Convocation.

When our graduate commencement ceremony went overtime, many graduates and their families left the arena. Meanwhile, a group of social work faculty gathered in the front and cheered loudly for every graduate still crossing the stage, infusing a long event with a new surge of new energy.

A student celebrates commencement.

Franky Urueta, a custodian with Facility Services, responds to the camera and photographer as he walks down Alumni Walk in front of Dana Hall.

Well-known by Bates students, Urueta, who is an Apache Native American, delivered the annual faculty-staff address at Baccalaureate in 2019. He urged the seniors “to give positive energy to people” so that “they give you positive energy back.”

Cattle eat hay out of a bin at the O.D. Butler, Jr. Animal Science Complex on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in College Station, Texas.

Jonah Yaffe ’26 of Dallas expressiedhis appreciation for working as a gardening assistant for the Facilities Services staff in the weeks leading up to Commencement. 

Yaffe  was photographed  in the vicinity of Chase Hall, where a group of student assistants weeded and planted new flowers. During the photo session, he demonstrated one a newly acquires skill of balancing a rake on his nose. Impressive.

While they might have preferred an escape pod to get away from finals, these students close out the outside world in these study pods at the Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building. The touch of a button opens the study sphere, which includes a wake-up alarm for those who might have launched themselves into too deep a sleep.

Technology Management graduates celebrate with confetti on the main quad as colleges across campus host graduation ceremonies.