{"id":7820,"date":"2026-01-23T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/?p=7820"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:50:33","slug":"aleksandar-m-diamond-stanic-talks-winter-light-with-maine-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/2026\/01\/23\/aleksandar-m-diamond-stanic-talks-winter-light-with-maine-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic talks &#8220;Winter light&#8221; with Maine Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associate Professor of Physics and Chair of Physics and Astronomy, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic was a guest\u00a0 on <em>Maine Calling<\/em> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainepublic.org\/show\/maine-calling\/2025-12-19\/winter-light\">a show on \u201cWinter Light\u201d<\/a> on Dec. 19, 2025 in advance of the winter solstice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diamond-Stanic, whose research focuses on the evolution of galaxies and the growth of supermassive black holes through cosmic time, was joined on panel by Sarah Tuttle, host and producer of Maine Public Classical and Jessica Miller, host of Weekend Edition and radio operations announcer for Maine Public.\u00a0His job? Explaining the science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he also spoke on the way the approaching solstice is celebrated in his native Serbian culture. He described Slava as a way to celebrate something that we are all experiencing but do not have control over. \u201cComing together in moments of otherwise darkness to bring light is really human [tendency],\u201d Diamond-Stanic says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Physics and Chair of Physics and Astronomy, Aleksandar M.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1283,"featured_media":7823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":["aleksandar-m-diamond-stanic"],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4115],"tags":[4248,4249,4127,4128],"class_list":["post-7820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news","tag-aleksandar-diamond-stanic","tag-light","tag-maine-calling","tag-maine-public"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7824,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions\/7824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}