Deirdre Stires
Stories by Deirdre Stires
Bates professor Sonja Pieck authors award-winning book about German conservation, memory, and wounded land
Friday, April 19, 2024 4:30 pm
Sonja Pieck’s book "Mnemonic Ecologies," about the once-militarized inner German border becoming a Green Belt, tells a story of how "something healing could come out of the pain."
What It Took: Love led Anthony Phillips ’10 to ask, ‘How can we make other people’s lives better?’
Thursday, April 4, 2024 10:00 am
For Anthony Phillips, what it took to find a life journey worth pursuing was the love, resolve, and faith his mother and grandmother passed on to him. Their example led him to the community-focused work he’s now doing as an elected member of the Philadelphia City Council.
Refusing to let the killers have the last word, survivors of the genocide in Rwanda share their story with Bates students
Friday, March 29, 2024 5:00 am
Three survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide visited with Bates students this week, sharing how their stories of survival and reconciliation ensure that the killers do not "have the last word.”
Solidarity, empathy, and political agendas: Bates professor explains how and why Irish famine relief ‘went viral’
Friday, March 15, 2024 1:00 pm
Anelise Hanson Shrout's new book about Ireland’s Great Famine documents the first instance of large-scale international philanthropy — and the reasons behind it.
Humanity comes first in casting students for Bates theater’s ‘The Gravediggers Union’
Friday, March 8, 2024 11:21 am
Filling in for a cast member during a dress rehearsal, visiting director Kevin R. Free hopped into a grave on the set, but not before offering a giggle and a burst of mirth because, he says, “Joy is my activism."
What It Took: A childhood hobby creates community, a fun honors thesis, and me time for Grace Acton ’24
Friday, March 1, 2024 1:00 pm
At high risk for COVID, Grace Acton arrived at Bates during the height of the pandemic. By embracing a childhood hobby of sewing, she found mentors, community, and academic fulfillment.
Bates named a Fulbright Student ‘Top Producer’ for 13th straight year in 2023-24
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 9:30 am
For the 13th straight year, Bates College has been named a “Top Producer” of Fulbright Student awards in 2023-24, based on seven Fulbright offers made to graduating Bates seniors and alumni last spring.
Thanks Guv! Another Bates Winter Carnival torch-lighting in the books
Friday, February 9, 2024 2:58 pm
Bates Winter Carnival fun? State of Maine State approved! This afternoon, Maine Gov. Janet Mills continued a grand Bates tradition by lighting a torch to help celebrate Winter Carnival at Bates.
What It Took: Whether happy or not, our personal stories can improve our well-being, says Jonathan Adler ’00
Friday, February 2, 2024 5:00 am
Storytelling is one of the oldest art forms. Adler, a clinical psychologist and researcher, tells us that our personal stories that don’t have to have a positive or happy ending. Difficult stories can offer a narrative option for how we make meaning.
Bates professor lands $415,000 grant to research ‘dramatically understudied’ protein that could be involved in major neurological conditions
Friday, January 26, 2024 5:00 am
The National Institute of Health grant will fund research by Martin Kruse that seeks to learn if a not-well-understood cellular protein plays a role in neurological conditions like epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease.