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<\/a>Elizabeth Rynecki ’91 holds her great-grandfather’s self-portrait at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. (Photograph by S\u0142awomir Gr\u00fcnberg)<\/p><\/div>\n
Attracting widespread media attention, Elizabeth’s efforts to recover more of her great-grandfather’s paintings include a database of his works and the book Chasing Portraits: A Great-Granddaughter’s Quest for Her Lost Art Legacy.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The paintings “are a powerful reflection of life in Poland before the war that not many people are aware of,” she said. “I felt that I could rescue that legacy and share it with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Steve Collins of the Lewiston Sun Journal <\/i>covered a Bates panel celebrating the 1968 vice presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie \u201936, featuring experts and people who had worked with Muskie on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n Edmund Muskie \u201936 and supporters at a 1968 campaign event. The location is perhaps New York City; third from left is perhaps Shirley Chisholm, then running for her first term as a Congresswoman. (Burton Burinsky \/ Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/p><\/div>\n The panelists described a politician who worked to bridge divides and calm clashes, \u201creaching out to both sides,\u201d said Charles Micoleau, a campaign staffer and later Muskie’s chief of staff.<\/p>\n Hubert Humphrey and Muskie lost the \u201968 race to Richard Nixon by less than 1 percent, and Muskie lost his own bid for the presidency in the 1972 Democratic primary. But his high profile and prestige was \u201ca real driving force, a hammer pounding the Clean Air Act through the committee and the Senate\u201d in 1970, said Eliot Cutler, who was Muskie’s assistant press secretary.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are the lucky ones who are still here,\u201d Cutler said. Muskie’s role in the history of the 20th century \u201cshaped all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n Women are taking an increasingly laissez-faire approach to body hair, wrote Maya Singer of Vogue. <\/i>For a historical perspective on women and shaving, she turned to Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies Rebecca Herzig, author of Plucked: A History of Hair Removal.<\/i><\/p>\n Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies Rebecca Herzig discusses a field project with a student in 2016. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n Hairlessness didn\u2019t become a beauty standard until after WWII, Herzig wrote in Plucked. <\/i>Some second-wave feminists in the 1970s revolted against this standard by condemning shaving entirely, whereas the early 2000s were given to the \u201cBrazilian wax tyranny,\u201d Singer wrote.<\/p>\n Singer characterizes the present age as one of, \u201cI\u2019ll shave if I want to,\u201d and razor companies are taking notice.<\/p>\n \u201cOne way to characterize what we\u2019re seeing may be that women are now encouraged to ask\u2014and increasingly expect\u2014brands to fulfill their needs,\u201d Herzig said.<\/p>\n For a list of factors to keep in mind if you\u2019re thinking about returning to a previous workplace, MarketWatch <\/i>writer Meera Jagannathan turned to Lecturer in Psychology Rebecca Fraser-Thill, a Pivot career coach.<\/p>\n Lecturer in Psychology Rebecca Fraser-Thill speaks about Bates\u2019 Purposeful Work initiative at the 2016 new student Orientation. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n Fraser-Thill recommended asking friends and family what you were like at your old job, thinking about the relationship you had with your old boss, comparing your current workplace to your old workplace, and \u2014 if you decide to make the move back \u2014 framing the decision positively.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve taken a moment to really consider your path, and you are intentionally and actively choosing this former employer,\u201d she told Jagannathan.<\/p>\n When some argued that Maine’s new ranked-choice voting process is an inaccessable \u201cblack box,\u201d Associate Professor of Economics Nathan Tefft replicated the election results on his own and sent his calculations to Maine Public.<\/p>\n Associate Professor of Economics Nathan Tefft teaches a class in 2016. (Josh Kucken\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n Using publicly available voting data and a common open-source programming language, Tefft exactly replicated the results of the election, which used the innovative ranked-choice format for the first time to proclaim Jared Golden \u201911 the winner. (Another Mainer did the same using Microsoft Excel.)<\/p>\n “It’s an important idea for me to support trust and confidence in the vote counting process,\u201d Tefft told reporter Steve Mistler. \u201cSo I certainly wanted it to be as transparent as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n The Bangor Daily News <\/i>covered Vicki Losick \u201901, a researcher at the MDI Biological Institute who received a $50,000 grant to use fruit flies to study age-related eye diseases.<\/p>\n Vicki Losick \u201901<\/p><\/div>\n The grant, awarded by the William Procter Scientific Innovation Fund, will allow Losick to model the \u201ccellular dysfunction\u201d that occurs in age-related macular degeneration, among other causes of blindness. She\u2019ll use fruit flies in her work, since macular degeneration takes hold more quickly due to the creatures\u2019 shorter lifespans.<\/p>\n \u201cWith the aging of the population, age-related macular degeneration is increasingly being viewed as an impending epidemic,\u201d Losick said in a press release. \u201cI am deeply grateful to the Procter Fund for supporting research that could lead to the identification of the genetic and cellular causes underlying retinal dysfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n Bates alumna and trustee Lisa Utzschneider \u201990 has been named CEO of Integral Ad Science, a company that measures the value of digital advertisements and helps prevent fraud, the entertainment trade magazine Variety<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n Lisa Utzschneider \u201990 speaks during a Bates Boston Business Network panel on women in leadership in 2017. (Paige Brown \u201996 for Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n Utzschneider was most recently chief revenue officer at Yahoo and has held executive roles at Microsoft and Amazon. Last year, she was on a Bates panel about women and leadership.<\/p>\n \u201cAs CEO, Utzschneider will focus on expanding IAS into new global markets and pushing into new ad formats, including over-the-top video and audio,\u201d according to Variety<\/i>.<\/p>\n Writer Gabby Naranja reached out to Martin Benes \u201907, who recently joined the coaching staff of U.S. Paralympics Nordic skiing. U.S. Paralympics is a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee<\/p>\n An assistant ski coach at Bates from 2009 to 2011 and most recently the Nordic ski director at Sugar Bowl Academy, Benes\u00a0told Naranja that the coaching philosophy for a para-athlete is the same as for a non-disabled athlete.<\/p>\n \u201cThe training principles don\u2019t really change,\u201d Benes said. \u201cYes, there are things to be aware of physiologically, but in terms of the core principles, it\u2019s not that different.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWith this level of athlete,” he added, “you’re helping guide them and giving them the framework to be successful and helping them be their own best coaches.\u201d<\/p>\n The Globe<\/i>\u2019s Marvin Pave chatted with Larry DiGiammarino \u201982, who holds or shares Bates football records for career and single-game receptions, as well as career and single-game touchdown receptions. He was named a Kodak Little All-American, the ECAC and New England Football Writers Player of the Year, and a Scholar Athlete of the Year by the Maine Sports Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n Now, DiGiammarino is a real-estate attorney in Marblehead, Mass., where he\u2019s on the school committee and the youth football and softball boards.<\/p>\n \u201cI learned through sports to never give up and stay as positive as I can,\u2019\u2019 he told Pave. \u201cIf things don\u2019t work out today, there\u2019s always tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n In the Bangor Daily News <\/i>blog Summer in Maine, Kristine Millard talked to Kristy Andrews \u201912, assistant director of Camp Wawenock in Raymond, Maine.<\/p>\n Andrews spent her childhood summers at Camp Wawenock and later became a counselor, working there before and after a stint as an English teacher in Chile. Now, she\u2019s one of a few year-round employees at the camp.<\/p>\n Andrews spoke to the community the camp offers girls, allowing them to \u201cbe their true selves.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a whole group of people who love you and support you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n
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\nEdmund Muskie \u201936<\/h2>\n
Muskie\u2019s 1968 vice presidential campaign recalled at Bates College forum \u2014 Sun Journal <\/i><\/h5>\n
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\nRebecca Herzig<\/h3>\n
To shave, or not to shave? How a new generation of women are embracing body hair \u2014 Vogue <\/i><\/h5>\n
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\nRebecca Fraser-Thill<\/h3>\n
Should you go back to work for your old company? \u2014 MarketWatch <\/i><\/h5>\n
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\nNathan Tefft<\/h3>\n
\u2018It’s Just Math\u2019 \u2014 Mainers recreate ranked-choice voting results to test the process \u2014 Maine Public<\/h5>\n
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\nVicki Losick \u201901<\/h3>\n
MDI researcher will use fruit flies to study macular degeneration \u2014 Bangor Daily News <\/i><\/h5>\n
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\nLisa Utzschneider \u201990<\/h3>\n
Lisa Utzschneider becomes CEO of ad-verification firm \u2014 Variety<\/em><\/h5>\n
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\nMartin Benes \u201907<\/h3>\n
Wednesday Workout: hitting the trails with U.S. Para-Nordic and Head Coach Martin Benes \u2014 FasterSkier<\/h5>\n
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\nLarry DiGiammarino \u201982<\/h3>\n
Catching up with…Larry DiGiammarino \u2014 The Boston Globe <\/i><\/h5>\n
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\nKristy Andrews \u201912<\/h3>\n
Young camp professionals: choosing careers in Maine, fulfilling commitments to kids \u2014 Bangor Daily News <\/i><\/h5>\n