Lewiston and Auburn mark Veterans Day \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Lewiston Sun Journal <\/em>led its Veterans Day coverage with the story of World War II Army veteran Ralph Sylvester ’50, now 98 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAs staff writer Steve Sherlock wrote, “Perhaps no one among the hundreds who attended Friday\u2019s solemn ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park has observed more Veterans Day services than Ralph Sylvester of Auburn.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Shortly](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_3399.webp\")
A Bobcat Den regular, Ralph Sylvester ’50 arrives for breakfast on Aug. 17, 2021, a routine restarted after being disrupted by the closure of the Den in March 2020 due to the pandemic. (H. Jay Burns\/Bates College) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSylvester fought on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and in the Battle of the Bulge. A private in the 295th Combat Engineers, “he built bridges over the Elbe River that enabled the American and British armies from the west and Soviet Union forces in the east to first link up near the end of the war in 1945.<\/span>“<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe 98-year-old veteran of World War II was on Omaha Beach on D-Day, fought in the Battle of the Bulge and built bridges over the Elbe River that enabled the American and British armies from the west and Soviet Union forces in the east to first link up near the end of the war in 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cToday brings back a lot of memories of all the others that were killed,\u201d Sylvester told the paper. \u201cAbout 20 percent of our company got killed during the Battle of the Bulge where 3,500 anti-tank mines were unbeknownst to us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Read the story: \u201cLewiston and Auburn mark Veterans Day, honor activist Bert Dutil with granite bench<\/a>,\u201d Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, Nov. 11, 2022<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Edmund Muskie ’36<\/h3>\n\n\n\nPollution still flows through Clean Water Act loophole \u2014 E&E News<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nAmong the many stories noting the 50th anniversary of the enactment of the Clean Water Act, <\/em>on Oct. 18, 1972, E&E News<\/em> took a deep look at the difficult decisions that Sen. Ed Muskie \u201836 and fellow lawmakers had to make as they crafted the landmark legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOne decision was not to try to address what is known as \u201cnonpoint source pollution,\u201d which refers to pollutants like pesticides, oil, and fertilizers that flow into waterways from land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In crafting the legislation in the early 1970s, lawmakers just couldn\u2019t find the right \u201cvehicle\u201d to tackle nonpoint source pollution, still mostly unregulated today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an area where there\u2019s still conceptual problems as well as sort of drafting problems and just generally regulatory problems,\u201d recalled Tom Jorling, then counsel to the Republican minority of the Senate Public Works Committee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI still haven\u2019t seen anybody recommend something that would work,” he added. \u201cIt\u2019s not so much that it wasn\u2019t done in \u201972; it\u2019s being honest and saying it hasn\u2019t been able to be done correctly in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Read the story: \u201cPollution still flows through Clean Water Act loophole<\/a>,\u201d E&E News<\/em>, Oct. 18, 2022<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMana Abdi, OIE staff<\/h3>\n\n\n\nLewiston woman makes history as one of the first two Somali Americans elected for Maine Legislature \u2014 <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nMana Abdi, the program coordinator in the Office of Intercultural Education at Bates, is one of two Somali Americans elected to the Maine Legislature this year, the first ever in the state\u2019s history. <\/p>\n\n\n
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/lite-youtube>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\tNews Center Maine<\/figcaption>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\nHer win is a sign that the Legislature is becoming more representative of the people it serves, Abdi tells the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, and it brings Maine \u201cone step closer\u201d to a brighter future for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cLewiston deserves safe, affordable, available housing and good jobs,\u201d Abdi said. \u201cI will be a strong and relentless voice for our community in Augusta.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the stories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cLewiston\u2019s Mana Abdi to be first Somali-American lawmaker in Maine<\/a>,\u201d The Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, Nov. 8, 2022<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cLewiston woman makes history as one of the first two Somali Americans elected for Maine Legislature<\/a>,\u201d NEWS CENTER Maine<\/em>, Nov. 9, 2022<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nDaniel Hoffman ’85<\/h3>\n\n\n\nMy late wife Kim taught me how to honor our loved ones by focusing on something that will outlast us \u2014 Fox News<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIn an opinion piece for Fox News, Daniel Hoffman \u201985, a former CIA station chief and a Fox News contributor, writes about the legacy of his late wife, Kim Hoffman, who died in 2021 of cancer. Their son, Jerron Hoffman, has dedicated himself to helping children who are in the hospital with cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Daniel](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/11\/Daniel-Hoffman-85-e1668793643346.webp\")
Daniel Hoffman ’85 and his son, Jerron, stuffing “Joy Jars” during a fundraiser for the Jessie Rees Foundation, a pediatric cancer nonprofit organization. (Photo courtesy of Daniel Hoffman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cI realized that families in the fight against cancer or grieving for their lost loved ones cancer stole from them had so much in common,” Hoffman writes. “Cancer forges the common ground among us, from which we derive strength from one another.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Read the story: \u201cMy late wife Kim taught me how to honor our loved ones by focusing on something that will outlast us<\/a>,\u201d Fox News<\/em>, Oct. 7, 2022<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Beverly Johnson, earth and climate sciences faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\nStudy shows Gulf of Maine cooling for 900 years, then quickly warming since late 1800s \u2014 ScienMag<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe water off the Gulf of Maine is warming rapidly. New research co-authored by Beverly Johnson, a professor of earth and climate sciences, demonstrates that the recent warming reverses 900 years of cooling and is accompanied by shifts in ocean currents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The findings were published in the open-access journal Communications Earth & Environment<\/em><\/a> and reported in ScienMag<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Arctica](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/11\/Arctica-islandica-clams_Nina-Whitney_Gulf-of-Maine-Study-with-Bev-Johnson.webp\")
Arctica islandica clams, like these ones collected by Nina Whitney, a research assistant professor in the Marine and Coastal Science program at Western Washington University and lead author of the study, are one of the types of clams collected by the team while researching the Gulf of Maine. (Photo courtesy of Nina Whitney)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe findings? During the late 1800\u2019s, coinciding with the emerging industrial revolution, the Gulf of Maine began to warm and to receive more water from the Gulf Stream, with a main driving factor being greenhouse gas emissions. At the current rate, the water in the Gulf of Maine could increase by 4 degrees Celsius, every 100 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Read the story: \u201cStudy shows Gulf of Maine cooling for 900 years, then quickly warming since late 1800s<\/a>,\u201d ScienMag<\/em>, Aug. 15, 2022<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJonathan Adler \u201900 <\/h3>\n\n\n\nPsychology in the theater with PSPR editor Jonathan Adler \u2014 Society for Personality and Social Psychology<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIn 2019, Jonathan Adler \u201900, a professor of psychology at Olin College of Engineering, was seeking a way to tell lesser-known stories from the AIDS pandemic in the U.S. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Jonathan](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/11\/Jonathan-Adler-00_center-with-cast.webp\")
Jonathan Adler ’00, center in dark blue shirt, stands with the cast of his play, Reverse Transcription<\/em>. (Stan Barough Photography)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPart of a team at Olin that received a Mellon Foundation grant aimed at integrating arts and STEM, he teamed up with Jim Petosa of Boston University to write a play, Reverse Transcription<\/em><\/a>, which juxtaposes the stories of gay men during the AIDS and the COVID pandemics in the U.S. It premiered off-Broadway last summer at The Atlantic Theater Co.\u2019s Stage 2, produced by PTP\/NYC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cFor me there is no separating psychological issues and theater,\u201d he told the newsletter of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. (Adler edits the SPSP’s journal.) \u201cLike all stories, all plays feature characters trying to do something, so there are always psychological topics to explore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adler believes that \u201cone of the biggest tragedies\u201d of COVID is that society didn\u2019t embrace the psychological lessons learned during the AIDS pandemic. \u201cThe gay community came together in the \u201980s and \u201990s,\u201d but during COVID, the pandemic \u201cultimately became a force for polarization, not interdependence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Read the story: \u201cPsychology in the theater with PSPR editor Jonathan Adler<\/a>,\u201d Society for Personality and Social Psychology<\/em>, Sept. 2, 2022<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWhitney Blanchard Soule \u201990<\/h3>\n\n\n\nMeet Whitney Soule, leader of the team who decides whether you get into Penn \u2014 The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"Whitney](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/11\/Whitney-Soule-90-293x300.webp\")
Whitney Soule ’90, the vice-provost and dean of admissions for the University of Pennsylvania. (Photo courtesy of Whitney Soule)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nUniversity of Pennsylvania Vice Provost and Dean of Admissions spoke with The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> about her career in college admission, which started at Bates.<\/p>\n\n\n\nShe had been a tour guide at Bates, and right after graduation the office had an unexpected opening and \u201cneeded someone right away. I was hired into a nine-month position, and 30 years later, here I am, still working in admissions! I love it because the work is human-centered, mission-driven, and complex.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lewiston Sun Journal <\/em>led its Veterans Day coverage with the story of World War II Army veteran Ralph Sylvester ’50, now 98 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As staff writer Steve Sherlock wrote, “Perhaps no one among the hundreds who attended Friday\u2019s solemn ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park has observed more Veterans Day services than Ralph Sylvester of Auburn.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sylvester fought on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and in the Battle of the Bulge. A private in the 295th Combat Engineers, “he built bridges over the Elbe River that enabled the American and British armies from the west and Soviet Union forces in the east to first link up near the end of the war in 1945.<\/span>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 98-year-old veteran of World War II was on Omaha Beach on D-Day, fought in the Battle of the Bulge and built bridges over the Elbe River that enabled the American and British armies from the west and Soviet Union forces in the east to first link up near the end of the war in 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cToday brings back a lot of memories of all the others that were killed,\u201d Sylvester told the paper. \u201cAbout 20 percent of our company got killed during the Battle of the Bulge where 3,500 anti-tank mines were unbeknownst to us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among the many stories noting the 50th anniversary of the enactment of the Clean Water Act, <\/em>on Oct. 18, 1972, E&E News<\/em> took a deep look at the difficult decisions that Sen. Ed Muskie \u201836 and fellow lawmakers had to make as they crafted the landmark legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One decision was not to try to address what is known as \u201cnonpoint source pollution,\u201d which refers to pollutants like pesticides, oil, and fertilizers that flow into waterways from land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In crafting the legislation in the early 1970s, lawmakers just couldn\u2019t find the right \u201cvehicle\u201d to tackle nonpoint source pollution, still mostly unregulated today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s an area where there\u2019s still conceptual problems as well as sort of drafting problems and just generally regulatory problems,\u201d recalled Tom Jorling, then counsel to the Republican minority of the Senate Public Works Committee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI still haven\u2019t seen anybody recommend something that would work,” he added. \u201cIt\u2019s not so much that it wasn\u2019t done in \u201972; it\u2019s being honest and saying it hasn\u2019t been able to be done correctly in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mana Abdi, the program coordinator in the Office of Intercultural Education at Bates, is one of two Somali Americans elected to the Maine Legislature this year, the first ever in the state\u2019s history. <\/p>\n\n\n Her win is a sign that the Legislature is becoming more representative of the people it serves, Abdi tells the Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, and it brings Maine \u201cone step closer\u201d to a brighter future for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLewiston deserves safe, affordable, available housing and good jobs,\u201d Abdi said. \u201cI will be a strong and relentless voice for our community in Augusta.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the stories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an opinion piece for Fox News, Daniel Hoffman \u201985, a former CIA station chief and a Fox News contributor, writes about the legacy of his late wife, Kim Hoffman, who died in 2021 of cancer. Their son, Jerron Hoffman, has dedicated himself to helping children who are in the hospital with cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI realized that families in the fight against cancer or grieving for their lost loved ones cancer stole from them had so much in common,” Hoffman writes. “Cancer forges the common ground among us, from which we derive strength from one another.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The water off the Gulf of Maine is warming rapidly. New research co-authored by Beverly Johnson, a professor of earth and climate sciences, demonstrates that the recent warming reverses 900 years of cooling and is accompanied by shifts in ocean currents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The findings were published in the open-access journal Communications Earth & Environment<\/em><\/a> and reported in ScienMag<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The findings? During the late 1800\u2019s, coinciding with the emerging industrial revolution, the Gulf of Maine began to warm and to receive more water from the Gulf Stream, with a main driving factor being greenhouse gas emissions. At the current rate, the water in the Gulf of Maine could increase by 4 degrees Celsius, every 100 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2019, Jonathan Adler \u201900, a professor of psychology at Olin College of Engineering, was seeking a way to tell lesser-known stories from the AIDS pandemic in the U.S. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Part of a team at Olin that received a Mellon Foundation grant aimed at integrating arts and STEM, he teamed up with Jim Petosa of Boston University to write a play, Reverse Transcription<\/em><\/a>, which juxtaposes the stories of gay men during the AIDS and the COVID pandemics in the U.S. It premiered off-Broadway last summer at The Atlantic Theater Co.\u2019s Stage 2, produced by PTP\/NYC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor me there is no separating psychological issues and theater,\u201d he told the newsletter of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. (Adler edits the SPSP’s journal.) \u201cLike all stories, all plays feature characters trying to do something, so there are always psychological topics to explore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adler believes that \u201cone of the biggest tragedies\u201d of COVID is that society didn\u2019t embrace the psychological lessons learned during the AIDS pandemic. \u201cThe gay community came together in the \u201980s and \u201990s,\u201d but during COVID, the pandemic \u201cultimately became a force for polarization, not interdependence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n University of Pennsylvania Vice Provost and Dean of Admissions spoke with The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> about her career in college admission, which started at Bates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She had been a tour guide at Bates, and right after graduation the office had an unexpected opening and \u201cneeded someone right away. I was hired into a nine-month position, and 30 years later, here I am, still working in admissions! I love it because the work is human-centered, mission-driven, and complex.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nEdmund Muskie ’36<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Pollution still flows through Clean Water Act loophole \u2014 E&E News<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMana Abdi, OIE staff<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Lewiston woman makes history as one of the first two Somali Americans elected for Maine Legislature \u2014 <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nDaniel Hoffman ’85<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
My late wife Kim taught me how to honor our loved ones by focusing on something that will outlast us \u2014 Fox News<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Beverly Johnson, earth and climate sciences faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Study shows Gulf of Maine cooling for 900 years, then quickly warming since late 1800s \u2014 ScienMag<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJonathan Adler \u201900 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Psychology in the theater with PSPR editor Jonathan Adler \u2014 Society for Personality and Social Psychology<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWhitney Blanchard Soule \u201990<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Meet Whitney Soule, leader of the team who decides whether you get into Penn \u2014 The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
![\"Noah](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/11\/Noah-Petro-01-327x300.webp\")