{"id":129105,"date":"2019-11-22T09:46:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T14:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=129105"},"modified":"2020-07-01T14:46:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:46:55","slug":"bates-in-the-news-nov-22-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/22\/bates-in-the-news-nov-22-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates in the News: Nov. 22, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Andrew Kennedy, Gabrielle Chua \u201918, and Bates students<\/h3>\n<h5>Molecule created by Bates students could lead to more effective treatment for cancer and Alzheimer&#8217;s patients \u2014 Multiple outlets<\/h5>\n<p>A variety of news organizations reported the invention at Bates of Bobcat339, a molecule created by students that could have implications for research and treatment of cancer and Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Andrew Kennedy and seven students co-authored a paper describing the molecule, which inhibits the ability of a certain enzyme to regulate genes. This class of so-called TET inhibitors could one day limit the aggressiveness of cancers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_127712\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/10\/190515_Kennedy_Bobcat339_0115-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127712\" class=\"wp-image-127712 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/10\/190515_Kennedy_Bobcat339_0115-crop-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"What\u2019s in a name? When the name is Bobcat339, a new molecule created in a Bates chemistry lab, it speaks to pharmaceutical promise in the fields of oncology and memory loss. The name also speaks volumes about how students can rapidly become cutting-edge researchers over their four years at Bates. Bobcat339 was invented at Bates, in a lab overseen by Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Andrew Kennedy. Typically for Bates, a team of talented juniors and seniors helps guide both strategy and tactics \u2014 an ascent to awesome responsibility that is rapid and, to them, very surprising. \u201cThey often don't realize that when they\u2019re hanging out in their sophomore organic chemistry class, they\u2019re very close to the cutting edge of science,\u201d Kennedy says. \u201cTheir impact on science is imminent.\u201dAndrew Kennedy, sports jacketHaoyu Sun \u201919 (biological chemistry)Nathanael Kuzio \u201919 (chemistry) (Patagonia pullover)Michael Bennett \u201919 (biological chemistry) (green shirt)\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/10\/190515_Kennedy_Bobcat339_0115-crop-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/10\/190515_Kennedy_Bobcat339_0115-crop-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/10\/190515_Kennedy_Bobcat339_0115-crop-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/10\/190515_Kennedy_Bobcat339_0115-crop.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-127712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With their professor, Andrew Kennedy (right), three of the seven student coauthors of the scholarly article describing Bobcat339 posed last May in a Dana Chemistry lab: from left, Michael Bennett, Haoyu Sun, and Nathanael Kuzio, all \u201919. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gabrielle Chua \u201918 was the student who ultimately structured the molecule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s big for the field of epigenetics, it&#8217;s big for cancer research, and it&#8217;s big for the field of memory,\u201d Kennedy told local NBC affiliate WCSH-TV, whose segment on the molecule was shared on Facebook by \u201cNBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the stories:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscentermaine.com\/article\/tech\/science\/molecule-created-by-bates-students-could-lead-to-more-effective-treatment-for-cancer-and-alzheimers-patients\/97-e38148e3-01eb-4495-85d0-8751d0bbe313?fbclid=IwAR2dm0qKv7QfJ-0JR3ikmiII6IcT2JKwajWC4ixdXwfy3utm9csPPyFbrF0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Molecule created by Bates students could lead to more effective treatment for cancer and Alzheimer&#8217;s patients<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d WCSH-TV, Oct. 25, 2019\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainepublic.org\/post\/bates-students-create-molecule-could-lead-new-treatments-memory-disorders-cancer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bates students create molecule that could lead to new treatments for memory disorders, cancer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maine Public<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Oct. 30, 2019<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Holly Ewing<\/h3>\n<h5>Bates snags federal cash to help study Lake Auburn \u2014 <em>Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Steve Collins of the <em>Sun Journal<\/em> reported that the college will receive $842,000 of a $6 million National Science Foundation grant to figure out how to track and predict cyanobacterial blooms in lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Holly Ewing, professor of environmental studies and the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, is key to the investigation, which is led by Alberto Quattrini Li of Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Often important sources of drinking water, U.S. lakes are experiencing increases in cyanobacterial blooms, says Holly Ewing. The NSF project will allow better water-quality monitoring than ever before.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Holly Ewing: Safeguarding the water supply\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3pBxJQ3JPVI?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>The multi-institution, multidisciplinary team will use boats and aerial drones to collect a wide variety of data on several lakes, including Lake Auburn. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/23\/bates-scientist-has-pivotal-role-in-6-million-project-to-better-predict-lake-cyanobacteria-blooms\/\">The project<\/a> requires understanding communities\u2019 relationships with their lakes, Ewing said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding people\u2019s values with respect to how we pay attention to lakes, how we interact with lakes \u2014 there\u2019s definitely a cultural and place-based component to that,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd all of this is intimately related to the science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the story:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/2019\/10\/25\/bates-snags-federal-cash-to-help-study-lake-auburn\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bates snags federal cash to help study Lake Auburn<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sun Journal, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 25, 2019<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Ryan Smith<\/h3>\n<h5>Auburn\u2019s Ryan Smith wins marathon, qualifies for U.S. Olympic Trials \u2014 <em>Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Bates staff member Ryan Smith talked to the Lewiston <em>Sun Journal\u2019s<\/em> Adam Robinson about his victory in the Hartford Marathon in October, which qualifies him for the U.S. Olympic Team marathon trials.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, manager of purchasing, accounting, and licensing for Bates Information and Library Services, ran the marathon in 2 hours and 18 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s now headed to Atlanta for the Feb. 29 trials, where he hopes to break the top 50 (the top three in each gender make the Olympic team).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m certainly excited to see the full-time professionals, as always,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIn terms of nerves, I think the pressure of trying to qualify is much more nerve-wracking than actually competing there. I\u2019m just going to try and beat as many people as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat sounds more fun than nerve-wracking, especially because it\u2019s a hilly course and I\u2019m really good on hills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the story:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/2019\/10\/18\/auburns-ryan-smith-wins-marathon-qualifies-for-u-s-olympic-trials\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auburn\u2019s Ryan Smith wins marathon, qualifies for U.S. Olympic trials<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sun Journal, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 18, 2019<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Nolwazi Nosisa Ngwenyama \u201916<\/h3>\n<h5>UCT\u2019s 2020 Mandela Rhodes scholars \u2014 <em>University of Cape Town News<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>The University of Cape Town announced that Nolwazi Nosisa Ngwenyama \u201916, a Bates graduate and graduate student in gender studies, has won a prestigious Mandela-Rhodes scholarship.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81425\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/web-140903_OIE_Receptioni__0367.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81425\" class=\"wp-image-81425 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/web-140903_OIE_Receptioni__0367-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nolwazi Ngwenyama '16 listens to a speaker at the Office of Intercultural Education at Bates in 2014. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/web-140903_OIE_Receptioni__0367-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/web-140903_OIE_Receptioni__0367-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/10\/web-140903_OIE_Receptioni__0367.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nolwazi Ngwenyama &#8217;16 listens to a speaker at the Office of Intercultural Education at Bates in 2014. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The scholarships are awarded to African citizens with \u201cexceptional leadership capacity\u201d and provide funding for postgraduate study in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Ngwenyama triple-majored in politics, anthropology, and women and gender studies at Bates. A native of Eswatini, she volunteers with the United World Colleges Eswatini National Committee.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the story:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.uct.ac.za\/article\/-2019-11-07-ucts-2020-mandela-rhodes-scholars\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UCT\u2019s 2020 Mandela Rhodes scholars<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of Cape Town News, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 7, 2019<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Rebecca Herzig<\/h3>\n<h5>For Millennial women, body hair presents a complicated choice \u2014 <em>HuffPost<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>In the <em>HuffPost<\/em>, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies Rebecca Herzig helped guest writer Sofia Barrett-Ibarria round out her argument that while choosing not to remove body hair might be a \u201cfeminist\u201d choice, body hair is more complicated than a &#8220;to shave or not to shave&#8221; binary.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_82937\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/12\/web-141202_Herzig_Johnson_Professorship_56.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82937\" class=\"wp-image-82937 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/12\/web-141202_Herzig_Johnson_Professorship_56-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rebecca Herzig heads to the lectern to deliver a talk celebrating her appointment as the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Bates. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/12\/web-141202_Herzig_Johnson_Professorship_56-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/12\/web-141202_Herzig_Johnson_Professorship_56-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/12\/web-141202_Herzig_Johnson_Professorship_56-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/12\/web-141202_Herzig_Johnson_Professorship_56.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-82937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2014, Rebecca Herzig heads to the lectern to deliver a talk. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Herzig is the author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/08\/in-the-pursuit-of-the-hirsute-rebecca-herzig\/\">Plucked: A History of Hair Removal<\/a><\/em>. In the <em>HuffPost<\/em>, she pointed out that while there is some mainstream acceptance of body hair on women, the stigma around body hair can have real, negative consequences, especially for women who are not \u201cable-bodied, white, young, thin and toned, expensively dressed, etc. \u2014 in every other way,\u201d she told Barrett-Ibarria.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the story:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/body-hair-millennials_l_5da8c47de4b0b24e75df3ab8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Millennial women, body hair presents a complicated choice<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HuffPost, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 5, 2019\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Peter Weyand \u201983<\/h3>\n<h5>Inside the six-figure project to solve the mystery of NBA flopping \u2014 <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>It\u2019s a phenomenon that baffles and frustrates basketball fans: flopping. And from a science perspective, Peter Weyand \u201983, a professor of applied physiology and biomechanics at Southern Methodist University, knows more about it than almost anyone, writes<em> The Guardian\u2019s<\/em> Patrick Hruby.<\/p>\n<p>Funded by Houston Rockets owner Mark Cuban, Weyand and his team set out in 2014 to measure how much force it takes to knock someone over and what it looks like when a basketball player is genuinely set off balance, vs. embellishing a light hit or straight-up faking a foul \u2014 that is, flopping. They ran tests using first a dummy, then real people wearing heavy padding.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, it doesn\u2019t take much force to knock someone over. \u201cIn many cases, if the defender just doesn\u2019t move their feet, then down they go,\u201d Weyand said. \u201cI\u2019ve been through thousands of charge-block collisions, and never realized how easy it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A rather obvious indication of a flop, the SMU team found, is when players stick their arms straight up as they go down \u2014 that doesn\u2019t happen naturally.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the story:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/oct\/30\/inside-the-six-figure-project-to-solve-the-mystery-of-nba-flopping\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inside the six-figure project to solve the mystery of NBA flopping<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Guardian, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 30, 2019<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Renee Leduc \u201998<\/h3>\n<h5>Will 5G Affect Weather Forecasts? \u2014 BBC <em>Click<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>The program quotes Renee Leduc \u201998 on how a recent Federal Communications Commission action could harm meteorologists\u2019 ability to forecast the weather, including dangerous hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>The issue has to do with an FCC decision to auction off specific wireless radio frequencies to commercial wireless providers for next-generation 5G networks.<\/p>\n<p>The scientific community, including Leduc, opposes the move. They say that giving these frequencies to 5G networks will interfere with unique measurements from weather satellites that are very important to weather forecasting models, the two most well-known being the American model (GFS) and the European model (the ECMWF). The FCC says the interference is not a threat.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Renee Leduc is quoted in this BBC <\/em>Click<em> story about how turning over specific radio frequencies to wireless providers could harm weather forecasting.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Will 5G Affect Weather Forecasts? - BBC Click\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l_Ffl7pJxRI?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>Founder and principal of the consulting firm Narayan Strategy, Leduc is a member of the American Meteorological Society\u2019s Board on Enterprise Economic Development and its International Affairs and Radio Frequency Allocation committees.<\/p>\n<p>She told <em>The Washington Post<\/em> that it\u2019s \u201ccrucial\u201d that the question of interference is \u201cdecided in a way that is informed by atmospheric science since the measurements are so crucial to sound weather predictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issue is front and center at the World Radiocommunications Conference, which ends Nov. 22 and where \u201cfor the past month they have been working to coordinate the deployment of 5G technologies across the world,\u201d Leduc tells <em>BatesNews<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2019\/03\/08\/critical-weather-data-threatened-by-fcc-spectrum-proposal-say-department-commerce-nasa\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Critical weather data threatened by FCC \u2018spectrum\u2019 proposal, Commerce Dept. and NASA say<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, March 8, 2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-03609-x\">Global 5G wireless deal threatens weather forecasts,<\/a>&#8221; <em>Nature<\/em>, Nov. 22, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Carrie Jones \u201993<\/h3>\n<h5>The unstoppable Carrie Jones; New thriller \u2018In the Woods\u2019 released \u2014 <em>Mount Desert Islander<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Down East arts journalist Nan Lincoln spoke with author Carrie Jones \u201993 about her new young-adult thriller, <em>In the Woods.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The novel, co-written with Steven E. Wedel, follows a teenage girl as she investigates possibly paranormal events. The two writers\u2019 conversation, however, ventured into Jones\u2019 other projects, from the children\u2019s book festival she helped organize to her prolific books and blogs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to write \u2014 all the time,\u201d Jones said. \u201cIf I don\u2019t get my ideas onto the page they pile up. But I love seeing where my characters will take me. It\u2019s always a new adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the story:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdislander.com\/living\/the-unstoppable-carrie-jones-new-thriller-in-the-woods-released\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The unstoppable Carrie Jones; New thriller \u2018In the Woods\u2019 released<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mount Desert Islander, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 27, 2019\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Matt Moretti \u201906<\/h3>\n<h5>Pioneering mussel farmer buys rival, plans expansion \u2014 <em>Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>The <em>Portland Press Herald<\/em> reported that Bangs Island Mussels, a Portland, Maine-based producer of rope-grown mussels, bought local competitor Calendar Island Mussel Co.<\/p>\n<p>Bangs Island Mussels is owned by Matt Moretti \u201906.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_104484\" style=\"width: 1630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/11\/160623_Bangs_Island_0591.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104484\" class=\"wp-image-104484 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/11\/160623_Bangs_Island_0591.jpg\" alt=\"Moretti begins to feed the mussels into a machine that works to break apart the Bissell tissue connecting many of the clusters. \" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/11\/160623_Bangs_Island_0591.jpg 1620w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/11\/160623_Bangs_Island_0591-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/11\/160623_Bangs_Island_0591-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/11\/160623_Bangs_Island_0591-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2016, Matt Moretti \u201906 feeds mussels into a machine that works to break apart tissue connecting many of the clusters. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The company produces mussels by growing them on ropes suspended from rafts, selling the product to Portland restaurants as well as wholesalers. The key to sustainable mussel farming, Moretti told <em>PPH<\/em> reporter Peter McGuire, is scale, and with the new acquisition Bangs Island Mussels can double its production and workforce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economics of it are such that the faster you can add on volume to your production, the sooner your costs drop and profits go up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the story:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2019\/11\/18\/pioneering-mussel-farmer-buys-rival-plans-expansion\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pioneering mussel farmer buys rival, plans expansion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Portland Press Herald, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nov. 18, 2019\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Elizabeth Strout \u201977<\/h3>\n<h5>Oprah reveals <em>Olive, Again<\/em> by Elizabeth Strout as new book club pick \u2014 <em>CBS This Morning<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>With bestselling author Elizabeth Strout \u201977 sitting next to her, Oprah Winfrey announced on <em>CBS This Morning<\/em> that Strout\u2019s new novel, <em>Olive, Again,<\/em> is her new book club selection.<\/p>\n<p><em>Olive, Again<\/em> is the sequel to Strout\u2019s Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning novel <em>Olive Kitteridge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Winfrey said she admires Strout\u2019s ability to take \u201cthe simplest of things and turn them into something that feels real to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Oprah Winfrey talks with Elizabeth Strout \u201977 on <\/em>CBS This Morning<em>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oprah Winfrey reveals book club pick: &quot;Olive, Again&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/prUjmifW82Q?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<hr \/>\n<h3>Melissa Wong \u201901<\/h3>\n<h5>Women Of The C-Suite: \u201cFear is a liar; fear will tell you the craziest things\u201d with Melissa Wong, CEO of Retail Zipline \u2014 <em>Authority Magazine<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Carly Martinetti of <em>Authority Magazine<\/em>, a publication on the platform Medium, interviewed Melissa Wong \u201901, co-founder of Retail Zipline.<\/p>\n<p>Building a company, Wong said, requires fearlessness \u2014 even when you think you should be afraid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFear is a liar,\u201d she said. \u201cFear will tell you the craziest things. When I first started, I legitimately feared our company would fail. \u2026 When you\u2019re in the moment, don\u2019t let feelings of fear lead your actions or choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Working in communications for Old Navy showed Wong how hard it is for large retail brands to get their own stores to implement ideas. 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