{"id":117026,"date":"2018-06-28T14:38:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T18:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=117026"},"modified":"2024-07-01T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:56:51","slug":"bates-in-the-news-june-28-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/28\/bates-in-the-news-june-28-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates in the News: June 28, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amy Bass \u201992<\/a><\/h3>\n
Netflix options ‘Friday Night Lights’-like soccer story \u2018One Goal\u2019 \u2014 The Hollywood Reporter<\/i><\/h5>\n

The Hollywood Reporter<\/span><\/i><\/a> and the <\/span>Portland Press Herald<\/span><\/i><\/a> reported that Netflix has bought the rights to <\/span>One Goal<\/span><\/i> by Amy Bass \u201992. <\/span><\/p>\n

The book, whose publication in February <\/span>gained national attention<\/span><\/a>, tells the story of the Lewiston High School boys soccer team, comprising mostly immigrants from Somalia and other African countries, that won the 2015 Maine state championship.<\/span><\/p>\n

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During a visit to Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services in Lewiston in March, Amy Bass \u201992 talks to Shobow Saban, a Lewiston High School graduate and key figure in her book,\u00a0One Goal<\/em>.\u00a0 (Daryn Slover\/Sun Journal)<\/p><\/div>\n

Bass cautioned that a book\u2019s optioning does not necessarily mean it will be produced \u2014 but she said the story of the LHS soccer team is an important one to tell. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very much about Lewiston being a microcosm of bigger things happening right now,\u201d she told the Press Herald<\/em>. \u201cCommunities that come together don\u2019t always stay together. It takes a lot of work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Eben Sypitkowski \u201905<\/a><\/h3>\n
Baxter State Park, home of Mount Katahdin, gets new director \u2014 Portland Press Herald<\/i><\/h5>\n

The <\/span>Portland Press Herald<\/span><\/i><\/a>, <\/span><\/i>the <\/span>Bangor Daily News<\/span><\/i><\/a>,<\/span> and <\/span>WABI-TV<\/span><\/a> reported that Eben Sypitkowski \u201905 will become the newest director of Baxter State Park, which contains Mount Katahdin, Maine\u2019s highest peak. <\/span><\/p>\n

An environmental studies major at Bates who <\/span>studied coastal bloodworm digging<\/span><\/a> for his honors thesis, Sypitkowski is currently the park\u2019s resource manager, and he told WABI that he hopes to continue the vision of Gov. Percival P. Baxter, who donated the land for the park in the early 1930s. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a place to turn off your cellphone and let your relationship with nature be contemplative and not structured by commercial interests,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a place to step out of our connected world, and reconnect with yourself and nature.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Bill Hiss \u201966<\/a><\/h3>\n
Large study finds colleges that go test-optional become more diverse and maintain academic quality \u2014 Inside Higher Ed<\/h5>\n

Inside Higher Ed<\/span><\/a> and other news media reported the findings of a major study of optional SAT policies co-authored by Bill Hiss \u201966 and Valerie Franks \u201998. <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the study\u2019s major conclusions is that SAT-optional policies <\/span>can lead to an increase in underrepresented students in both the applicant pool and the first-year class.<\/span><\/p>\n

The study also finds that, once in college, students who did not submit test scores posted lower grades initially, \u201cbut they ended up highly successful, graduating at equivalent rates or <\/span>\u2014<\/span> \u00a0at some institutions <\/span>\u2014<\/span> \u00a0slightly higher rates than did those who submitted test scores,\u201d according to Inside Higher Ed. \u201cThis, the report says, is \u2018the ultimate proof of success.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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As dean of admissions from 1978 to 2000, Bill Hiss ’66 spearheaded the college\u2019s test-optional policy. Since then, he’s tracked the policy’s effect at Bates and nationally. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

The study is the second major SAT-outcome study for which <\/span>Hiss and Franks have been key players<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hiss, who was Bates\u2019 dean of admissions from 1978 to 2000, spearheaded the college\u2019s move to test-optionality in the 1980s. He and Franks have studied the issue extensively as more and more schools \u2014 most recently and notably the <\/span>University of Chicago<\/span><\/a> \u2014 drop the requirement to submit SAT or ACT scores.<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Little \u201912<\/a><\/h3>\n
Working: Building a brand \u2014 Sun Journal <\/i><\/h5>\n

The Lewiston Sun Journal<\/i><\/a> caught up with Robert Little \u201912, a local filmmaker whose latest projects include shooting for DIY Network\u2019s reality series Maine Cabin Masters<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Little\u2019s company, Sublime House Media, works on \u201cfilmmaking that could have a positive impact,\u201d writes Kathryn Skelton. He\u2019s parlayed experience filming in Indonesia and for National Geographic <\/i>into making videos that help immigrants, and working with kids on filmmaking.<\/p>\n

For Maine Cabin Masters<\/i>, Little is following a crew of builders who fix up cabins in the woods. \u201cEvery profession has a wealth of knowledge, and I feel like people forget that about the trades,\u201d Little told Skelton. \u201cVideo in a lot of ways is a trade. You\u2019re making a product, and there\u2019s lots of tools involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mike Retelle<\/a><\/h3>\n
Researchers to study history and impact of increased rain in the Arctic \u2014 The Boston Globe <\/i><\/h5>\n

What happens when, because of climate change, rain replaces snow in the Arctic? <\/span><\/p>\n

Professor of Geology Mike Retelle and a colleague at UMass Amherst have won a $760,430 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the phenomenon, <\/span> <\/i>The Boston Globe<\/span><\/i><\/a> reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Professor of Geology Mike Retelle poses with Allie Balter ’14 and Greg de Wet ’11 at a field site in Svalbard, Norway, in 2013. (Courtesy of Greg de Wet)<\/p><\/div>\n

Increased rainfall could have devastating effects on communities like Svalbard, Norway, which could suffer landslides and flash flooding. <\/span><\/p>\n

According to a <\/span>phys.org report<\/span><\/a>, Retelle and Bradley will study lake sediments in Svalbard in order to reconstruct a long climatic history. \u201cThis will provide a unique perspective on the nature of recent sedimentary changes and provide insight into the effects of contemporary changes in climate on the hydrological regime of this region,\u201d Retelle said. <\/span><\/p>\n

Purposeful Work <\/a><\/h3>\n
At Bates College, new focus on \u2018Purposeful Work\u2019 \u2014 WGBH-FM<\/h5>\n

Boston public radio station WGBH-FM profiled<\/span> Purposeful Work<\/span><\/a>, a signature Bates program that helps students discover work that aligns with their interests and values.<\/span><\/p>\n

The station talked to Callie Reynolds \u201918, who completed a Purposeful Work internship in her Connecticut hometown in 2015; she also completed the \u201cLife Architecture\u201d course that teaches students how to approach the twin life goals of <\/span>professional and personal fulfillment<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 2017, Gerald Nelson \u201918 interned at Sports Illustrated Kids as part of the Purposeful Work Internship Program. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

Purposeful Work, she says, \u201cis all about figuring out what I want to do with my life.\u201d She\u2019s now heading to Stockholm to work for the nonprofit study-abroad foundation <\/span>DIS.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reporter Kirk Carapezza also interviewed Peter Bysshe \u201893, who was on campus during Short Term to teach a course on brand culture building, part of the Purposeful Work program that offers practitioner-taught courses on practical and applied areas of study. <\/span><\/p>\n

“When I work with designers, I love watching them get from a stuck place to an unstuck place,\u201d Bysshe told Carapezza. \u201cWe recognize that liberal arts students can do anything. We have them do real things so they can feel what it’s like, so it’s not just rhetoric anymore.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Francesco Duina<\/a><\/h3>\n
Why are poor people in America so patriotic? One man went on an odyssey to find out \u2014 Salon<\/h5>\n

Chauncy Devega of Salon talked to Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina, author of <\/span>Broke and Patriotic, <\/span><\/i>about why the poorest Americans <\/span>love their country the most<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Asked why Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Duina said Trump tapped a backlash against ideas such as political correctness.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina teaches a course in political sociology. (Theophil Syslo\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

For Trump, political correctness amounts to collective demands for unconditional equality. For him, \u201cthis is a way of saying that these collective identities — whether it\u2019s blacks, gays, women, etc. — demand things from the government as a matter of right,\u201d Duina said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet to Trump and his supporters, such demands are a \u201cnon-American thing,\u201d he added, that go \u201cagainst the tradition of individualism: You have certain basic rights as an individual, not as a group. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think the people who voted for Trump by and large could be characterized as more individualistic-oriented. They lack interest in the government providing things for them and are more interested in the government getting out of their way. His voters and other supporters also feel that the government is corrupt and catering to all sorts of people instead of them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Josh Macht \u201991<\/a><\/h3>\n
Can tech save the humanities? \u2014 The Boston Globe <\/i><\/h5>\n

The incorporation of technology into subjects like English and philosophy could breathe new life into the humanities, <\/span>writes Josh Macht \u201991 for the <\/span>The Boston Globe<\/span><\/i><\/a>. Moreover, the increasing prevalence of technology in our society makes the humanities more necessary than ever.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Joshua Macht \u201991 talks about entrepreneurship with Shaina Lam \u201917 of Portland, Maine, in 2014. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

Humanities and technology can intersect in promising ways, such as creating a game based on Henry Thoreau\u2019s life or, as students in Bates\u2019 Digital and Computational Studies program did this year, <\/span>helping dancers compose music with their bodies<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf the humanities are ever to enjoy a true resurgence, it will come as a result of a reinvention that embraces a fresh new take on old disciplines,\u201d Macht writes. <\/span><\/p>\n

Studying art, philosophy, or literature could also guide the development of technology. \u201cWe\u2019ll need to develop not just the technical skills to build better tech, but also the moral and ethical reasoning to guide how society deploys them,\u201d he writes. <\/span><\/p>\n

Myron Beasley <\/a><\/h3>\n
Art review: Prints with a purpose \u2013 and power \u2014 Maine Sunday Telegram<\/i><\/h5>\n

In curating an exhibition of prints and posters in Portland, Maine, Myron Beasley debunked the myth that good art is \u201cpure in itself and free from any ideological or utilitarian purpose,\u201d <\/span>writes<\/span><\/a> the <\/span>Maine Sunday Telegram<\/span><\/i>\u2019s Daniel Kany.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beasley, an associate professor of African American and American cultural studies, curated \u201cPrint, Protest, Power,\u201d exhibited at Able Baker Contemporary from May 18 to June 22. The prints and posters in the exhibition, created mainly by black artists during and after the civil rights movement, had clear messages of political action and fighting for justice.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe works make a compelling case not only that there is much to be done, but that such efforts can and will be successful,\u201d Kany writes. \u201cThe art builds on successes of the past as well as current topics of change politics, so when it looks to the future, it does so not desperately, but confidently.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Nathan Lundblad<\/a><\/h3>\n
The quest to make super-cold quantum blobs in space \u2014 Wired <\/i><\/h5>\n

Wired<\/span><\/i><\/a> reported on Associate Professor of Physics Nathan Lundblad\u2019s work with the Cold Atom Laboratory, the first-ever environment that is both cold enough and free enough of gravity to create a Bose-Einstein condensate. <\/span><\/p>\n

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In 2014, Associate Professor of Physics Nathan Lundblad works with summer student researcher Ben Lovitz \u201915 of Portland, Ore., in Lundblad’s ultra-cold atomic physics lab. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Cold Atom Lab was launched to the International Space Station in May. The \u201cblobs\u201d the lab creates \u201cshould yield new insights about how atoms organize themselves,\u201d writes Sophia Chen. <\/span><\/p>\n

Working remotely, Lundblad will study this entirely new state of matter. \u201cImagine you were in a culture where you\u2019d never seen ice,\u201d Lundblad said. \u201cYou find out that when you cool water past 32 degrees Fahrenheit, this amazing form of H2O appears that is crystalline and regular.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Carine Warsawski \u201907<\/a><\/h3>\n
A camp for Jewish connections \u2014 The Jewish Week <\/i><\/h5>\n

The Jewish Week <\/i>named Carine Warsawski \u201907 one of its \u201c36 Under 36\u201d for 2018<\/a>. Warsawski is the founder of Trybal Gatherings, which creates camp-like retreats for young Jewish adults.<\/p>\n

Though she traveled to see family frequently growing up, Warsawski told the magazine that she first felt truly connected to Judaism during a camp, and during college and afterwards she worked at camps and for student tour companies. \u201cIt became important to lead experiences that helped people connect to their Jewish culture, no matter the geography,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSummer camps are one of the Jewish community\u2019s greatest assets,\u201d she added. \u201cTrybal is an opportunity to take my own transformative experiences from camp and offer [that] to others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Laura Ligouri <\/a><\/h3>\n
Implicit Bias: Understanding our own beliefs \u2014 Maine Public<\/h5>\n

Weeks after a Starbucks employee called the police on two black men sitting in the store and Starbucks implemented an afternoon of anti-bias training for its employees, Lecturer in Neuroscience Laura Ligouri <\/span>joined a <\/span>Maine Calling<\/span><\/i> panel<\/span><\/a> on implicit bias. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ligouri, the founder of a nonprofit that applies psychology and neuroscience to human rights issues, said implicit bias is an unconscious process that influences people\u2019s preconceived ideas about others and can lead to prejudice against groups different from one\u2019s own.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Laura Ligouri, teaches \u201cNeuroscience, Ethics, and Society\u201d in May. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

Ensuring that implicit biases don\u2019t lead to discrimination takes more work than a few hours of training, Ligouri said \u2014 to understand and confront their biases, people must slow down and be willing to have uncomfortable conversations on an ongoing basis. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo create change, it has to be a commitment to a program that becomes a practice,\u201d she said. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Perou \u201987<\/a><\/h3>\n
Diet may influence the spread of a deadly type of breast cancer, study finds \u2014 ScienceDaily<\/h5>\n

Researchers including Charles Perou \u201987 have found that blocking an amino acid found in certain foods might stop the spread of a particular type of breast cancer, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center <\/span>announced<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The team discovered that limiting asparagine \u2014 found in \u201cdairy, whey, beef, poultry, eggs, fish, seafood, asparagus, potatoes, legumes, nuts, seeds, soy and whole grains,\u201d according to the press release \u2014 in mice prevents the spread of triple-negative breast cancer. <\/span><\/p>\n

The next steps are to test the effects of asparagine in healthy humans and then in cancer patients. <\/span><\/p>\n

Perou is a <\/span>leading researcher<\/span><\/a> into variations of breast cancer and precision medicine. In October, <\/span>he will receive<\/span><\/a> the AACI Distinguished Scientist Award for his work in those fields. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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