{"id":124656,"date":"2019-05-21T16:19:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T20:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=124656"},"modified":"2021-08-13T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:59:13","slug":"video-dylan-metsch-ampel-voices-2019-environmental-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/21\/video-dylan-metsch-ampel-voices-2019-environmental-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Dylan Metsch-Ampel &#8217;19 and &#8216;places we don&#8217;t necessarily think of as the environment&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m interested in places we don&#8217;t necessarily think of as the environment,&#8221; says Dylan Metsch-Ampel &#8217;19 of\u00a0Montclair, N.J.<\/p>\n<p>Such as the built environment of Lewiston&#8217;s downtown, which was the topic of his environmental studies honors thesis, &#8220;Sense of Place in Kennedy Park: the Role of Urban Green Space in the Tree Streets Neighborhood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Metsch-Ampel&#8217;s research on Lewiston&#8217;s downtown park supported an effort, undertaken by the Healthy Neighborhoods Planning Council, to make the district a healthier, happier place.<\/p>\n<p>Writing the thesis left him feeling that he\u2019d had &#8220;a tangible effect on the community that I&#8217;ve been living in for four years,&#8221; said\u00a0Metsch-Ampel, who was recently honored by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships for his outstanding community-engaged academic work.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Video by Phyllis Graber Jensen<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dylan Metsch-Ampel | Voices from the Class of 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TEQ_CpZTkUo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As an Admission tour guide, Metsch-Ampel has had an effect on the Bates environment, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing I always tell prospective Bates students and their families is that Bates is a place that&#8217;s going to push you outside of your comfort zone while providing all the right resources and the right help.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing a thesis on a downtown Lewiston neighborhood left Metsch-Ampel feeling that he\u2019d had &#8220;a tangible effect on the community that I&#8217;ve been living in for four years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":124662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_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":[4,30,130,31],"tags":[10805,4087,12250,11875],"class_list":["post-124656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-civic-engagement","category-collaboration","category-lewiston-auburn","tag-class-of-2019","tag-harward-center-for-community-partnerships","tag-voices","tag-voices-of-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124656"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124759,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124656\/revisions\/124759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}