{"id":116029,"date":"2018-05-25T10:33:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=116029"},"modified":"2019-05-15T15:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:43:42","slug":"bates-in-the-news-may-25-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/25\/bates-in-the-news-may-25-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates in the News: May 25, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bates College<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
Bates College to start new science and research building in 2019\u00a0\u2014 MaineBiz<\/em><\/h5>\n

MaineBiz<\/span><\/i><\/a>, the Lewiston <\/span>Sun Journal<\/span><\/i><\/a>, and the <\/span>Portland Press Herald<\/span><\/i><\/a> reported on the <\/span>unveiling of the design<\/span><\/a> of Bates\u2019 new science building. The building will house programs in biology, chemistry, and neuroscience and offer state-of-the-art instrumentation and lab space. <\/span><\/p>\n

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A major achievement of the Bates Campaign, the new science building at Bates College opens in 2021.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cScheduled for opening in 2021, the science building is a centerpiece of The Bates Campaign, a $300 million fundraising campaign publicly announced in May 2017 whose goals include both this new facility and the modernization of existing STEM structures to optimize teaching and research,\u201d <\/span>MaineBiz<\/span><\/i> writes.<\/span><\/p>\n

John Rasmussen<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
Bates nearing its carbon-neutral goal \u2014\u00a0Sun Journal\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n

After its first full winter of heating the campus with a fuel oil that, because it\u2019s created from woody plant materials, is not a source of fossil carbon emissions, Bates is on track to make the campus carbon-neutral by 2020. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Darrel Scribner of Preferred Utilities Manufacturing Corp. starts the college\u2019s Renewable Fuel Oil burner by inserting an ignition oil gun. Bates is the only college in the country using Renewable Fuel Oil, which drastically reduces fossil-fuel carbon emissions. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

The <\/span>Sun Journal<\/span><\/i>\u2019s Steve Collins reviewed <\/span>college sustainability efforts<\/span><\/a> that are bringing that carbon neutrality goal into reach. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis winter\u2019s gone very well\u201d with the so-called <\/span>Renewable Fuel Oil<\/span><\/a> that has become the primary energy source for Bates\u2019 campus heating plant, energy manager John Rasmussen said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bates\u2019 success in energy conservation \u201chas received notice,\u201d Collins wrote. \u201cThe Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education \u2013 an international sustainability rating agency \u2013 ranked Bates in fourth place worldwide in the clean energy category for 2017.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jason Perkins \u201997<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
Allagash joins the ranks of can-do brewers in Maine\u00a0\u2014 Portland Press Herald\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n

The <\/span>Portland Press Herald<\/span><\/i> interviewed Jason Perkins \u201997<\/span><\/a>, whose <\/span>Allagash Brewing Company<\/span><\/a> is at the tail end of a sea change in Maine beer: Most of the state\u2019s largest breweries have ditched bottles and put at least some of their beer in cans. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Jason Perkins ’97 of Allagash Brewing Company, photographed in 2008 at the brewery’s headquarters in Portland, Maine. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College).<\/p><\/div>\n

Allagash made the switch in April, but it\u2019s starting small, canning only one type of beer and selling it only at the Portland brewery itself. Cans are more portable, and the beer inside them less susceptible to damaging ultraviolet light. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe really view this as doing things in a methodical, slow way, the way we\u2019ve always done things here,\u201d Perkins told reporter James Patrick, adding that Allagash might one day can its biggest seller, White. \u201cIt allows us to make sure we learn the trade before we take any further step forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben Shaw \u201900<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
Vets First Choice to become Maine\u2019s newest public company \u2014\u00a0Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n

The <\/span>Portland Press Herald <\/span><\/i>reported that Vets First Choice, a veterinary technology provider headed by Ben Shaw \u201900, <\/span>will become the fourth publicly traded company in Maine<\/span><\/a> that isn\u2019t a bank. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Ben Shaw \u201900, founder and CEO of Vets First Choice, talks with his father, IDEXX founder and Bates honorary degree recipient David Shaw. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Portland-based company, which gives local veterinarians a leg up by outsourcing online pharmacy services, will merge with the spun-off animal services division of Henry Schein, Inc. <\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Press Herald\u2019s <\/span><\/i>J. Craig Anderson reports that Vets First Choice employs 800 people and serves 20,000 veterinary practices, and it recently received $223 million in venture capital investments. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding upon our long history of reinvention, the company will continue to expand our offering of innovative solutions for our d<\/span>ental and medical customers,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cWe see significant growth opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nima Olumi \u201917<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
Squash Without the Ceiling \u2014\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n

Nima Olumi \u201917 ran into <\/span>The New York Times\u2019 <\/span><\/i>Amy Sohn as she was <\/span>reporting on the opening of a public outdoor squash court<\/span><\/a> in Manhattan, a rarity for a sport that\u2019s usually played indoors and that has a reputation as a game for the elite. <\/span><\/p>\n

Turns out Olumi, who\u2019s volunteered with SquashBusters in Boston, and the creators of this pop-up squash spot were on the same page: They try to increase access to the sport. <\/span><\/p>\n

Olumi, Sohn writes, decided to play shirtless in the warm afternoon. \u201cThe sight of a shirtless squash player on an outdoor court, a stone\u2019s throw from the East River, seemed to encapsulate New York\u2019s past and future at once.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Carolyn Court<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
A-L Hall of Fame: Court inducted after almost four decades of coaching \u2014\u00a0Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n

The Lewiston <\/span>Sun Journal <\/span><\/i>profiled retired women\u2019s track and country coach Carolyn Court<\/span><\/a>, who was inducted into the Auburn-Lewiston Sports Hall of Fame in May. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Lewiston High School track coach and retired Bates track and cross country coach Carolyn Court was inducted into the Auburn Lewiston Sports Hall of Fame. (Daryn Slover\/Sun Journal)<\/p><\/div>\n

Court <\/span>coached track and cross country at Bates from 1979 to 2004<\/span><\/a>, winning the 1995 cross country Coach of the Year in New England Division III in 1995 and coaching 15 All-American award winners. <\/span><\/p>\n

Since her retirement, she\u2019s been the assistant track and field coach at Lewiston High School. \u201cShe never stops,\u201d head coach Paul Soracco told the <\/span>Sun Journal<\/span><\/i>. \u201cShe\u2019ll be texting me at 3 in the morning about the meet the next day, and I\u2019m like, \u2018What are you doing, go to bed.\u2019 I am excited for her to be inducted. I don\u2019t know why it hadn\u2019t happened sooner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Matt Moretti \u201906<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
These machines from Japan could put scallop farming in Maine on the map \u2014\u00a0Bangor Daily News\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n

The <\/span>Bangor Daily News <\/span><\/i>talked to Matt Moretti \u201906<\/span><\/a> of Bangs Island Mussels, which is testing new machinery that could make Maine home to the \u201cfirst semi-automated commercial scallop aquaculture operations outside Japan.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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In 2016, Matt Moretti ’06 begins to feed mussels into a machine that works to break apart the Bissell tissue connecting many of the clusters. His company, Bangs Island Mussels, is testing out machinery that will automate part of the scallop-farming process. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

The machines, funded by a grant, speed up the process of growing scallops on ropes off the Maine coast, something <\/span>Moretti has been doing with mussels since 2010<\/span><\/a>. Automation could, Moretti says, ensure that scallop farmers can consistently feed a growing market. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re super excited about this project,\u201d he says. \u201cIt could be a huge boost to the Maine economy.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Eben Sypitkowski \u201905<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
Let there be dark: Advocates push Maine as astrotourism destination \u2014 Maine Sunday Telegram<\/em><\/b><\/h5>\n

Maine has exceptionally dark skies \u2014 it contains the largest area without light pollution in the eastern U.S. A group of advocates is trying to keep it that way with a formal \u201cdark sky\u201d designation that would help bring visitors here to marvel at the stars. <\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>Maine Sunday Telegram <\/span><\/i>interviewed Eben Sypitkowski \u201905<\/span><\/a>, the resource manager for one of the darkest places in the state, Baxter State Park. Baxter\u2019s original mission of protecting the park\u2019s natural resources \u201cnicely aligns with minimizing human impacts like light pollution,\u201d writes Mary Pols. <\/span><\/p>\n

But Baxter isn\u2019t looking for a designation from the International Dark-Sky Association, as many Maine advocates want. \u201cWe have these commitments to the deeds of trust and that is where our priorities lie,\u201d Sypitkowski<\/a> said. \u201cAnything that may conflict with it or interfere with it is not something we would want to get involved with.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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