\u2018I\u2019d stay with him forever\u2019 \u2014 Apple Valley News Now<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nA Valentine\u2019s Day feature by Apple Valley News Now<\/em>, a television news program based in Kennewick, Wash., profiled Ginger Buhl Vetrano \u201954 and Jim Vetrano \u201951, who have been married for 71 years<\/a>. He is 94; she is 92.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/03\/Vetrano03-27-at-10.57.41-AM-copy.webp\")
Ginger Buhl Vetrano \u201954 and Jim Vetrano \u201951 talk about their 71-year marriage, which began on Valentine’s Day, with Apple Valley News Now <\/em>television. (Apple Valley News Now)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThe couple met at a spring Bates picnic during her first year and his junior year. \u201cWe both went with different partners to the picnic, and I thought she was pretty cute,\u201d Jim said. \u201cWe were playing softball; she was the pitcher, and I was the catcher. There were a lot of conferences on the mound.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were married on Valentine\u2019s Day, which happens to be Jim\u2019s birthday. As they planned their wedding, Ginger said, \u201cI noticed that it was his birthday, which meant that he wouldn’t forget our anniversary \u2014 and he never has!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTakako Yamaguchi \u201975<\/h3>\n\n\n\nDozens of artists, three critics: Who\u2019s afraid of the Whitney Biennial 2024? \u2014 The New York Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nArtwork by Takako Yamaguchi \u201975 is mentioned favorably in a New York Times<\/em> review<\/a> of the Whitney Biennial, considered the longest-running survey of American art since the Whitney Museum of Art established the exhibition in 1932. <\/p>\n\n\n\nYamaguchi\u2019s \u201ccurious and colorful graphic abstractions\u201d are described as one of the show’s \u201cstandouts.\u201d Born in Japan, Yamaguchi has been based in Los Angeles since 1978<\/a>. She blends global art influences, challenging Euro-American abstraction. Her work combines Japanese motifs with diverse visual traditions, emphasizing overlooked themes like decoration and beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBill Walsh \u201986<\/h3>\n\n\n\nThe AARP Award for Excellence in Journalism on Aging \u2014 National Press Association<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe National Press Association reported on a major new journalism award whose creation was led by Bill Walsh \u201986, a former newspaper journalist and now an executive at AARP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/03\/Walsh-3-NPF-2024.webp\")
Bill Walsh \u201986, a former newspaper journalist and now an executive at AARP, presented one of two National Press Foundation\/AARP Awards for Excellence in Journalism on Aging to Washington Post<\/em> reporter Tara Bahrampour. (National Press Association)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nWalsh, who is senior vice president of communications at AARP and a National Press Foundation board member, presented the inaugural National Press Foundation\/AARP Awards for Excellence in Journalism on Aging at the NPF awards dinner in February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two awards went to The Washington Post<\/em> reporter Tara Bahrampour, the paper\u2019s first reporter dedicated to aging, and The Connecticut Mirror<\/em>, for their four-part series, “Connecticut\u2019s Elder Care Reckoning,<\/a>\u201d in February. <\/p>\n\n\n\nWalsh told BatesNews<\/em> that he has \u201clong thought a national award focused on covering aging could incentivize journalists to explore the many benefits and challenges of one of the greatest phenomena of our time: Increased longevity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nWhitney Blanchard Soule \u201990<\/h3>\n\n\n\nTop women leaders for 2023 \u2014 Women We Admire<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nWhitney Blanchard Soule \u201990, who is vice provost and dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, was profiled by Women We Admire<\/em><\/a> <\/em>as a top leader for 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe university\u2019s first female dean of admission, Soule was praised as \u201ca leader in envisioning the future of college admissions and the role of higher education in driving societal progress\u201d and for being laser-focused on building greater equity in admissions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTheodore Walls \u201990<\/h3>\n\n\n\nNew research to study eating behaviors through high-tech system \u2014 WJAR<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nTelevision station WJAR of Providence, R.I., reported on how researchers at the University of Rhode Island, including Theodore Walls \u201990, have created wearable sensors and artificial intelligence to more accurately measure<\/a> how people eat, even to the point of measuring how one\u2019s jaw moves during eating.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWalls is a professor in the Department of Psychology and co-director of the Center for Health Monitoring and Intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a URI news story, Walls said that the study might allow the addition of other sensors, such as one that measures facial skin stretching during eating. The goal of the study is to be able to move from in-lab settings \u201cinto the wild, gradually moving from… a lab-controlled setting to those grounded in the external validity of the real world.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nLisa Genova \u201992<\/h3>\n\n\n\nMemory and the brain \u2014 TED Radio Hour<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nNeuroscientist and best-selling novelist Lisa Genova \u201992 joined NPR\u2019s TED Radio Hour<\/em> to talk with host Manoush Zomorodi about memory<\/a>, what’s normal and not normal in our brains, and how to keep our brains healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGenova, who received an honorary degree from Bates in 2016, has authored five novels, each about people suffering from a different neurological condition. Praised by The New Yorker<\/em>,<\/a> her latest book is the nonfiction Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/06\/web-160529_Commencement_1602.jpg\")
Lisa Genova ’92 receives her honorary degree from Bates in 2016. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nGenova spoke to Zomorodi about a common worry that people have of not remembering something that recently happened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd that\u2019s okay,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s what I want people to recognize: You don’t have to freak out [about not remembering] Wednesday night dinner with my kids. Our brains are designed pretty well. If it\u2019s meaningful, emotional, surprising, or new, we keep it and we can keep it for 70 years, 80 years. We can keep it for a lifetime if it’s meaningful and emotional and important. But if it’s not, it’s okay to let it go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nPrerana Shrestha \u201903<\/h3>\n\n\n\nSBU\u2019s Prerana Shrestha scores $2.2 million to study molecular drivers of PTSD \u2014 TBR News Media<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nTBR News Media<\/em> reported that Stony Brook University researcher Prerana Shrestha \u201903 will use a $2.2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health<\/a> to better understand how the brain regulates especially intense emotional memories associated with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\nShrestha is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In PTSD, physiological changes in the brain disrupt its subconscious evaluations of and reactions to perceived threats. As a result, sufferers have trouble accurately assessing danger and employing effective coping strategies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are trying to understand the neurological basis for why [traumatic memories in PTSD sufferers] are so robust,\u201d Shrestha told TBR News Media<\/em>. She will look at \u201cwhat can we do to understand the mechanism that supports these memories from the ground up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nErin Reed \u201908<\/h3>\n\n\n\nPlans for Trinity Jubilee Center\u2019s new location taking shape in Lewiston \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Lewiston Sun Journal <\/em>reports strong progress<\/a> on a plan for Trinity Jubilee Center, where Erin Reed \u201908 is executive director<\/a>, to move from rented space in cramped quarters in a Lewiston church basement to a new building in the heart of downtown that the Jubilee Center would own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Erin](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/12\/231130_Trinity_Soup_Kitchen_Erin_Reed_1781.webp\")
Erin Reed \u201908 is executive director of Lewiston’s Trinity Jubilee Center, which is moving into a new downtown facility. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cOur programs have just grown and grown, and it\u2019s hard,\u201d Reed told the Sun Journal<\/em>. \u201cWe feed people and we shelter people, and those two programs have to fight over space. Like, do we store a pallet of food in this corner or do we set up a table and chair and bring in another person from the cold?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s also about helping clients retain their dignity. \u201cSome people have a hard time asking for help, and it\u2019s even harder when it\u2019s crowded, and our staff members are always getting interrupted and there\u2019s strangers listening in on conversations,\u201d Reed said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In March, the Sun Journal<\/em> reported that Trinity Jubilee<\/a>, other nonprofits, and riverfront restoration had received new federal funding to support their work. Groundbreaking for the two-story, 11,000-square-foot resource center is scheduled for August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nShawna-Kaye Lester \u201908<\/h3>\n\n\n\nShawna-Kaye Lester talks growth \u2014 All Woman<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe founder and CEO of Memorable Essay, a college admission consulting firm, Shawna-Kaye Lester \u201908 discussed her career achievements and motivations with All Woman<\/em><\/a>, a magazine published by the Jamaica Observer<\/em>, offering a few tips along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLester talked about the time in her life when she worked the hardest: taking the Bates course in cellular and molecular biology, long known as \u201cCell Hell.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Young women beginning their professional career should feel free to \u201cexpose yourself to different fields and to different professions and professionals within each field. You can read about professions, but also try to see jobs in motion through internships, even if they are not paid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lester encouraged: It\u2019s OK to explore. \u201cI have had eclectic career tastes my whole life and I dealt with a lot of people telling me I was not focused or confused when I was simply exploring. I think exploration and exposure are critical for finding your career match.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nEmily Russell \u201911<\/h3>\n\n\n\nIf All Else Fails \u2014 <\/em>North Country Public Radio<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe five-part podcast If All Else Fails<\/em>, produced by North Country Public Radio about far-right extremism in upstate New York<\/a>, was hosted and reported by Emily Russell \u201911 and Zach Hirsch.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe North Country Public Radio website notes that Russell and Hirsch set out to \u201cinvestigate extremist groups and militia movements in northern New York State, why they\u2019re drawing support, and what kinds of threats they pose at a pivotal moment for democracy in the U.S.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs we saw on Jan. 6, 2022, it only took a couple thousand people to suspend our democratic process for hours and force an evacuation from the Capitol,\u201d Russell told VTDigger<\/em><\/a>. \u201cEven if folks who have gone down these rabbit holes may be a minority in this country, if you get enough of them riled up, they can do a tremendous amount of damage to our democracy in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nKoyabi Mamam Nbiba \u201920<\/h3>\n\n\n\nThe power of mentorship: Opening doors and shaping leaders \u2014 Mastercard<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nKoyabi Mamam Nbiba \u201920, an analyst for Mastercard North America, wrote a first-person essay for the company\u2019s \u201cPerspectives\u201d website about the role of mentorship in his career<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAs a high school student, Nbiba was mentored by a doctor in New York City, discovering the \u201cworld of New England prep schools\u201d that set him on the path to \u201csecuring a spot at Bates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At Mastercard, he has been the global finance chair for LEAD, which seeks to cultivate a corporate culture that attracts, develops, and retains employees of African descent, and program director for Uplift, MasterCard\u2019s mentorship program for Black men.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe truth is, you don’t have to be part of a mentorship program to shape the paths of future leaders,\u201d Nbiba wrote. \u201cProfessionals should step up to mentor early and often. If that’s not your preference, you can still make a difference by connecting others for mentorship where you see opportunities. Maybe that’s how we can measure our legacy \u2014 by how many people we raise up along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Purposeful Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\nFinancial planning careers are open for business \u2014 Kiplinger<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nA story in Kiplinger<\/em> gave a nod to the groundbreaking work by Bates<\/a> to show that a sense of purpose is integral to feeling satisfied in our careers. The thrust of the story was about the growing need for financial planners in the coming years, and how the field of financial planning can feel purposeful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe need for additional financial planning professionals aligns with many students\u2019 desire to pursue a purpose-driven career,\u201d the story noted. \u201cNationally, according to a survey from Gallup and Bates College<\/a>, nearly all four-year college graduates (95 percent) consider a sense of purpose at least moderately important in their work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nLoring Danforth<\/h3>\n\n\n\nCultural appropriation \u2014 Maine Calling<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nDana Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Loring \u201cDanny\u201d Danforth joined a discussion on Maine Public Radio\u2019s program Maine Calling<\/em> to discuss issues of cultural appropriation<\/a>, which can arise in relation to Halloween costumes or Indigenous imagery used by school, college, and professional sports as mascots. <\/p>\n\n\n\nAs a professor, Danforth often sent an email to Bates students in the days before Halloween asking them to think about their costumes because \u201cwhen you take somebody’s identity or culture and transform them into a costume for Halloween… that’s trivializing and disrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Danforth returned to the idea of respect when a listener asked where cultural sharing ends and cultural appropriation starts. For example, Danforth said, eating at a Greek or Chinese restaurant is not disrespectful, but \u201cusing Native American religious symbols at a basketball game is not respectful. Using feathers, which are sacred symbols in Native American cultures, on a Halloween costume is not respectful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joining Danforth as a panelist was Maulian Bryant, tribal ambassador of Penobscot Nation and an advocate on issues of derogatory mascots and imagery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBrian J. Evans<\/h3>\n\n\n\nSeeds in the SOIL<\/em>, a new art exhibit celebrating Black history from Maine to Seattle \u2014 News Center Maine<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nNews Center Maine reported on the Seeds in the SOIL<\/em> exhibition in Portland, featuring nine Black artists from Maine, including Brian J. Evans, an assistant dance professor at Bates.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\nEvans’ showcased piece, Crazy<\/em>, is a video depicting him running in place for 10 minutes, symbolizing the challenges of navigating multiple identities. “Essentially, I ask the audience to help me get through this experience. It’s a commentary on how crazy it is sometimes to be running through all of these different identities presumably not getting anywhere,” Evans said.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe exhibition was a collaboration between Portland’s Indigo Arts Alliance and Seattle’s SOIL Gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMichael Rocque<\/h3>\n\n\n\nThe Maine gunman was a \u2018textbook case\u2019 for a state law designed to remove firearms from people like him \u2014 CNN<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
A Valentine\u2019s Day feature by Apple Valley News Now<\/em>, a television news program based in Kennewick, Wash., profiled Ginger Buhl Vetrano \u201954 and Jim Vetrano \u201951, who have been married for 71 years<\/a>. He is 94; she is 92.<\/p>\n\n\n The couple met at a spring Bates picnic during her first year and his junior year. \u201cWe both went with different partners to the picnic, and I thought she was pretty cute,\u201d Jim said. \u201cWe were playing softball; she was the pitcher, and I was the catcher. There were a lot of conferences on the mound.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n They were married on Valentine\u2019s Day, which happens to be Jim\u2019s birthday. As they planned their wedding, Ginger said, \u201cI noticed that it was his birthday, which meant that he wouldn’t forget our anniversary \u2014 and he never has!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Artwork by Takako Yamaguchi \u201975 is mentioned favorably in a New York Times<\/em> review<\/a> of the Whitney Biennial, considered the longest-running survey of American art since the Whitney Museum of Art established the exhibition in 1932. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yamaguchi\u2019s \u201ccurious and colorful graphic abstractions\u201d are described as one of the show’s \u201cstandouts.\u201d Born in Japan, Yamaguchi has been based in Los Angeles since 1978<\/a>. She blends global art influences, challenging Euro-American abstraction. Her work combines Japanese motifs with diverse visual traditions, emphasizing overlooked themes like decoration and beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The National Press Association reported on a major new journalism award whose creation was led by Bill Walsh \u201986, a former newspaper journalist and now an executive at AARP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Walsh, who is senior vice president of communications at AARP and a National Press Foundation board member, presented the inaugural National Press Foundation\/AARP Awards for Excellence in Journalism on Aging at the NPF awards dinner in February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The two awards went to The Washington Post<\/em> reporter Tara Bahrampour, the paper\u2019s first reporter dedicated to aging, and The Connecticut Mirror<\/em>, for their four-part series, “Connecticut\u2019s Elder Care Reckoning,<\/a>\u201d in February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Walsh told BatesNews<\/em> that he has \u201clong thought a national award focused on covering aging could incentivize journalists to explore the many benefits and challenges of one of the greatest phenomena of our time: Increased longevity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whitney Blanchard Soule \u201990, who is vice provost and dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, was profiled by Women We Admire<\/em><\/a> <\/em>as a top leader for 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The university\u2019s first female dean of admission, Soule was praised as \u201ca leader in envisioning the future of college admissions and the role of higher education in driving societal progress\u201d and for being laser-focused on building greater equity in admissions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Television station WJAR of Providence, R.I., reported on how researchers at the University of Rhode Island, including Theodore Walls \u201990, have created wearable sensors and artificial intelligence to more accurately measure<\/a> how people eat, even to the point of measuring how one\u2019s jaw moves during eating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Walls is a professor in the Department of Psychology and co-director of the Center for Health Monitoring and Intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a URI news story, Walls said that the study might allow the addition of other sensors, such as one that measures facial skin stretching during eating. The goal of the study is to be able to move from in-lab settings \u201cinto the wild, gradually moving from… a lab-controlled setting to those grounded in the external validity of the real world.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neuroscientist and best-selling novelist Lisa Genova \u201992 joined NPR\u2019s TED Radio Hour<\/em> to talk with host Manoush Zomorodi about memory<\/a>, what’s normal and not normal in our brains, and how to keep our brains healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Genova, who received an honorary degree from Bates in 2016, has authored five novels, each about people suffering from a different neurological condition. Praised by The New Yorker<\/em>,<\/a> her latest book is the nonfiction Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Genova spoke to Zomorodi about a common worry that people have of not remembering something that recently happened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd that\u2019s okay,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s what I want people to recognize: You don’t have to freak out [about not remembering] Wednesday night dinner with my kids. Our brains are designed pretty well. If it\u2019s meaningful, emotional, surprising, or new, we keep it and we can keep it for 70 years, 80 years. We can keep it for a lifetime if it’s meaningful and emotional and important. But if it’s not, it’s okay to let it go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n TBR News Media<\/em> reported that Stony Brook University researcher Prerana Shrestha \u201903 will use a $2.2 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health<\/a> to better understand how the brain regulates especially intense emotional memories associated with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shrestha is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In PTSD, physiological changes in the brain disrupt its subconscious evaluations of and reactions to perceived threats. As a result, sufferers have trouble accurately assessing danger and employing effective coping strategies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are trying to understand the neurological basis for why [traumatic memories in PTSD sufferers] are so robust,\u201d Shrestha told TBR News Media<\/em>. She will look at \u201cwhat can we do to understand the mechanism that supports these memories from the ground up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Lewiston Sun Journal <\/em>reports strong progress<\/a> on a plan for Trinity Jubilee Center, where Erin Reed \u201908 is executive director<\/a>, to move from rented space in cramped quarters in a Lewiston church basement to a new building in the heart of downtown that the Jubilee Center would own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur programs have just grown and grown, and it\u2019s hard,\u201d Reed told the Sun Journal<\/em>. \u201cWe feed people and we shelter people, and those two programs have to fight over space. Like, do we store a pallet of food in this corner or do we set up a table and chair and bring in another person from the cold?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s also about helping clients retain their dignity. \u201cSome people have a hard time asking for help, and it\u2019s even harder when it\u2019s crowded, and our staff members are always getting interrupted and there\u2019s strangers listening in on conversations,\u201d Reed said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March, the Sun Journal<\/em> reported that Trinity Jubilee<\/a>, other nonprofits, and riverfront restoration had received new federal funding to support their work. Groundbreaking for the two-story, 11,000-square-foot resource center is scheduled for August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The founder and CEO of Memorable Essay, a college admission consulting firm, Shawna-Kaye Lester \u201908 discussed her career achievements and motivations with All Woman<\/em><\/a>, a magazine published by the Jamaica Observer<\/em>, offering a few tips along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lester talked about the time in her life when she worked the hardest: taking the Bates course in cellular and molecular biology, long known as \u201cCell Hell.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Young women beginning their professional career should feel free to \u201cexpose yourself to different fields and to different professions and professionals within each field. You can read about professions, but also try to see jobs in motion through internships, even if they are not paid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lester encouraged: It\u2019s OK to explore. \u201cI have had eclectic career tastes my whole life and I dealt with a lot of people telling me I was not focused or confused when I was simply exploring. I think exploration and exposure are critical for finding your career match.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The five-part podcast If All Else Fails<\/em>, produced by North Country Public Radio about far-right extremism in upstate New York<\/a>, was hosted and reported by Emily Russell \u201911 and Zach Hirsch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The North Country Public Radio website notes that Russell and Hirsch set out to \u201cinvestigate extremist groups and militia movements in northern New York State, why they\u2019re drawing support, and what kinds of threats they pose at a pivotal moment for democracy in the U.S.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs we saw on Jan. 6, 2022, it only took a couple thousand people to suspend our democratic process for hours and force an evacuation from the Capitol,\u201d Russell told VTDigger<\/em><\/a>. \u201cEven if folks who have gone down these rabbit holes may be a minority in this country, if you get enough of them riled up, they can do a tremendous amount of damage to our democracy in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Koyabi Mamam Nbiba \u201920, an analyst for Mastercard North America, wrote a first-person essay for the company\u2019s \u201cPerspectives\u201d website about the role of mentorship in his career<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a high school student, Nbiba was mentored by a doctor in New York City, discovering the \u201cworld of New England prep schools\u201d that set him on the path to \u201csecuring a spot at Bates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Mastercard, he has been the global finance chair for LEAD, which seeks to cultivate a corporate culture that attracts, develops, and retains employees of African descent, and program director for Uplift, MasterCard\u2019s mentorship program for Black men.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe truth is, you don’t have to be part of a mentorship program to shape the paths of future leaders,\u201d Nbiba wrote. \u201cProfessionals should step up to mentor early and often. If that’s not your preference, you can still make a difference by connecting others for mentorship where you see opportunities. Maybe that’s how we can measure our legacy \u2014 by how many people we raise up along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A story in Kiplinger<\/em> gave a nod to the groundbreaking work by Bates<\/a> to show that a sense of purpose is integral to feeling satisfied in our careers. The thrust of the story was about the growing need for financial planners in the coming years, and how the field of financial planning can feel purposeful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe need for additional financial planning professionals aligns with many students\u2019 desire to pursue a purpose-driven career,\u201d the story noted. \u201cNationally, according to a survey from Gallup and Bates College<\/a>, nearly all four-year college graduates (95 percent) consider a sense of purpose at least moderately important in their work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dana Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Loring \u201cDanny\u201d Danforth joined a discussion on Maine Public Radio\u2019s program Maine Calling<\/em> to discuss issues of cultural appropriation<\/a>, which can arise in relation to Halloween costumes or Indigenous imagery used by school, college, and professional sports as mascots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a professor, Danforth often sent an email to Bates students in the days before Halloween asking them to think about their costumes because \u201cwhen you take somebody’s identity or culture and transform them into a costume for Halloween… that’s trivializing and disrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Danforth returned to the idea of respect when a listener asked where cultural sharing ends and cultural appropriation starts. For example, Danforth said, eating at a Greek or Chinese restaurant is not disrespectful, but \u201cusing Native American religious symbols at a basketball game is not respectful. Using feathers, which are sacred symbols in Native American cultures, on a Halloween costume is not respectful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joining Danforth as a panelist was Maulian Bryant, tribal ambassador of Penobscot Nation and an advocate on issues of derogatory mascots and imagery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n News Center Maine reported on the Seeds in the SOIL<\/em> exhibition in Portland, featuring nine Black artists from Maine, including Brian J. Evans, an assistant dance professor at Bates.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Evans’ showcased piece, Crazy<\/em>, is a video depicting him running in place for 10 minutes, symbolizing the challenges of navigating multiple identities. “Essentially, I ask the audience to help me get through this experience. It’s a commentary on how crazy it is sometimes to be running through all of these different identities presumably not getting anywhere,” Evans said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exhibition was a collaboration between Portland’s Indigo Arts Alliance and Seattle’s SOIL Gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Dozens of artists, three critics: Who\u2019s afraid of the Whitney Biennial 2024? \u2014 The New York Times<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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The AARP Award for Excellence in Journalism on Aging \u2014 National Press Association<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Top women leaders for 2023 \u2014 Women We Admire<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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New research to study eating behaviors through high-tech system \u2014 WJAR<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Memory and the brain \u2014 TED Radio Hour<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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SBU\u2019s Prerana Shrestha scores $2.2 million to study molecular drivers of PTSD \u2014 TBR News Media<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Plans for Trinity Jubilee Center\u2019s new location taking shape in Lewiston \u2014 Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Shawna-Kaye Lester talks growth \u2014 All Woman<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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If All Else Fails \u2014 <\/em>North Country Public Radio<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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The power of mentorship: Opening doors and shaping leaders \u2014 Mastercard<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Financial planning careers are open for business \u2014 Kiplinger<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Cultural appropriation \u2014 Maine Calling<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Seeds in the SOIL<\/em>, a new art exhibit celebrating Black history from Maine to Seattle \u2014 News Center Maine<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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The Maine gunman was a \u2018textbook case\u2019 for a state law designed to remove firearms from people like him \u2014 CNN<\/h5>\n\n\n\n