Bates Athletics Host L/A Community Day

Hello All,

I am pleased to announce that as a result of funds raised at our first-ever L/A Community Day, the Department of Athletics is able to present a check for $600 to the Atlantic Global Aid group that is coordinating the local famine relief effort targeting the drought that is affecting Somalia and the Horn of Africa.

L/A Community Day featured several free youth instructional sport clinics run by Bates coaches; three Lewiston & Auburn youth football games that were hosted on Garcelon Field prior to the Bates Football game and at halftime; campus tours; local vendors who provided giveaways, pumpkin decorating and face-painting; Bates contests in Field Hockey, Women's Soccer, Football and Men's Soccer; a live broadcast from Garcelon Field by WOXO radio station; and of course the famine relief fund-raising effort where the Athletic Department donated the proceeds from its sale of concessions, merchandise, and game programs.

The spirit of the day was captured in the following email received from a local resident:

"I was very impressed at the way my son's youth team was treated at the Bates community day Saturday afternoon. Coach Capone gave us a great deal of his time and made the kids feel like gold. Ryan Weston was well spoken and a true gentleman with the players. Ryan sent a great message to the kids and it meant a lot to them. I know the message sunk in because later Saturday when my 4th grader was asked to do something it shocked his mom that he did it without a fight. When she asked if he was okay Storm said that the Bates coaches and player says he needs to listen to his parents if he wants to play Football. I can assure you I will certainly pass along how much class that we were shown by the Bates Football program. Thank you very much and please pass this along to Ryan."

As well as the following email from Dick Gleason, the Mayor of Auburn:

"Hi Kevin, Congratulations and thanks from the community for Saturday's outstanding events. Proof, that Bates is not an island."


Thanks again to all who helped make L/A Community Day such a success and to all of you who came out to the events,

Kevin

Student-Athlete Summer Researchers

Student-Athlete Summer Research Grants, Fellowships, and Internships

From the list compiled by the Dean of Students office of all students funded by Bates to do summer research and/or conducting research with a Bates faculty member, those who are student-athletes.

Joseph Ajamu ’14 - Track: Synthesis of Spiroketal Enol Ether Natural Products (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry), Early Career Student Research Opportunities

Brigit Anderson ’12 - Rowing: Exhumation and Paleotopography of the Presidential Range, NH, from Apatite Fission Track Ages, (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), Mount David Research Fellowship

Ashley Brooks ’14 - Squash: Field and Laboratory Research in Climate Reconstruction Using Sclerochronology (William Ambrose, Biology), Early Career Student Research Opportunities

Allison DiSalvo ’12 - Rowing: Effects of Developmental Hyperoxia on Spiracle Opening in Drosophila (Ryan Bavis, Biology), A. V. Davis Student Fellowship in Biology

James Epstein ’13 – Cross Country/Track: Environmental Intern, Sabbathday Lake Association, New Gloucester, ME, Otis Environmental Internship

Sarah Fallon ’12 - Swimming: Postnatal Growth and Critical Periods of the Developing Carotid Body (Ryan Bavis, Biology), INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry

Alicia Fannon ’13 – Cross Country/Track: The 1901 World’s Fair, Buffalo, NY (Margaret Creighton, History), Student Research Apprenticeship

Samuel Gretz ’12 - Track: Synthetic Studies of Koshikalide (Jennifer Koviach-Côté, Chemistry), O’Leary Fellowship in Chemistry or Biochemistry

Romina Istratii ’12 - Track: Toward a Less Food Insecure World: Developing a Life-Cycle Accounting-Based Model for the Better Comparison of Different Agricultural Practices (Alejandro Dellachiesa, Economics), Stangle Fellowship for Research in Economics and Law

Douglas Kempner ’12 – Cross Country/Track: How Ballot Initiatives Relate to People’s Understanding of Voting (Maine People’s Alliance), Harward Center for Community Partnerships Community-Based Research Fellowship

Kathilee Kenlock ’14 - Track: The Physics of Matter in the Vapor Phase Cooled to Nanokelvin Temperatures (Nathan Lundblad, Physics), Early Career Student Research Opportunities

Mollie Kervick ’13 - Softball: The Creative Writing Component of a Summer Camp for Local Youth (Camp Smiles, Lewiston Department of Recreation), Harward Center for Community Partnerships Community-Based Research Fellowship

Umar Ali Khan ’13 - Squash: Impact of Madrases on the Economic Growth of Pakistan (Francesco Duina, Sociology), Bates Summer Research Fellowship

Kara Leasure ’12 - Swimming: The Role of Glutamate in the Modulation of the Standard Pattern of Feeding in the Pond Snail, Helisoma trivolis (Nancy Kleckner, Biology), INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry

Sophie Leonard ’12 – Nordic Skiing: Mathematical Modeling of Gloeotrichia echinulata (Meredith Greer, Mathematics), Mellon Innovation Grant

Mary Lewis ’13 – Field Hockey/Softball: Translational Regulation in Diverse Prokaryotes (Paula Schlax, Chemistry), INBRE faculty grant

Kelley Madden ’12 – Cross Country/Track: Translational Regulation in Diverse Prokaryotes (Paula Schlax, Chemistry) INBRE faculty grant

Peter Miller ’12 - Rowing: Beach Monitoring, Phippsburg, ME (Michael Retelle, Geology), Small Point Operating Company faculty grant

Cody Newman ’11 - Lacrosse: Hydrodeoxygenation of Fast Pyrolysis Oil over Ruthenium Catalysts (Rachel Narehood Austin, Chemistry), Beckman Scholarship for Research in Science

Cheri-Ann Parris ’13 - Squash: Arsenic Exposure in Mice (Rebecca Sommer, Biology), A. V. Davis Fellowship in Biology

Kevin Regan ’13 - Football: Atomic Force Microscope-Based Manipulation of Plasmonic Nanoparticles (Matthew Côté, Chemistry), Hoffman Fellowship

Haley Sive ’12 - Rowing: Digital Bedrock Mapping of Small Point, ME (J. Dykstra Eusden, Geology), U.S. Geological Survey EdMap Grant

Elisabeth Sonshine ’12 - Rowing: Late Holocene Fluctuations in Eelgrass Abundance in Penobscot Bay, Gulf of Maine (Beverly Johnson, Geology), National Science Foundation faculty grant

Ross Terada ’14 - Rowing: Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) Research (Hong Lin, Physics), Early Career Student Research Opportunities

Charles Thaxton ’12 - Rowing: David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (Sanford Freedman, English), Bates Summer Research Fellowship

Kristina Tobin ’12 – Soccer/Track: Postnatal Growth and Critical Periods of the Developing Carotid Body (Ryan Bavis, Biology), INBRE Student-Faculty Grant in Biology and Biochemistry

Bates Allies Rally II

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Dear Students, Faculty and Staff,

Yesterday, in conjunction with National Coming Out Day, members of the Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) and the Athletic Department staffed a table in New Commons where the campus community was invited to sign the Bates Ally Pledge and to receive a Bates Ally wristband. The Pledge reads as follows:

I pledge to help lead the Bates community to respecting and welcoming all persons, regardless of their perceived or actual sexual orientation,gender identity, or gender expression. Beginning right now, I will do my part to promote the best of Bates College by making all persons feel respected and valued.

I am so pleased to report that we had just shy of 1,000 students, faculty and staff sign the Pledge!

The campus response was so overwhelming that, regretfully, we ran out of wristbands. But we have ordered more and I will send out an announce when those arrive so that anyone who still wishes to have a Bates Ally wristband will be able to stop by and get one.

Sincerest thanks to the SAAC who led this effort, to the Athletics staff who assisted, and to the campus community which responded in such an positive manner!

With gratitude and pride,

Kevin

Email <kmchugh@bates.edu> Kevin McHugh Director of Athletics & Chair of PE Bates College