Bates College (/beɪts/) is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. It is equidistant from the state capital, Augusta, to the north, and the cultural hub Portland to the south. Anchored by the Historic Quad, the campus of Bates totals 813 acres (329 ha) with a small urban campus which includes 33 Victorian Houses as some of the dormitories. It maintains 600 acres (240 ha) of nature preserve known as the "Bates-Morse Mountain" near Campbell Island and a coastal center on Atkins Bay. With an annual enrollment of approximately 1,800 students, it is the smallest college in its athletic conference. As a result of its small student body, Bates maintains selective admit rates and little to no transfer percentages.The college was founded on March 16, 1855, by abolitionist statesman Oren Burbank Cheney and textile tycoon Benjamin Bates. Established as the Maine State Seminary, the college became the first coeducational college in New England and went on to confer the first female undergraduate degree in the area. Bates is the third-oldest college in Maine, after Bowdoin and Colby College. It became a vanguard in admitting minority students before the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation. During early 1900s the college began to aggressively expand and by the mid-1940s, amassed large amounts of property, becoming a major economic power in Lewiston. Since the 1950s, the college has acquired and attempted to remedy a reputation for educating the affluent of New England. Improvements to its reputation were diminished after large losses during the 2008 financial crisis increased its tuition costs. The late 2010s saw a redoubled push for socioeconomic, racial, and cultural diversity as well as a major expansion of student financial aid.Bates provides undergraduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering and offers joint undergraduate programs with Columbia University, Dartmouth College, and Washington University in St. Louis, among others. A baccalaureate college, the undergraduate program requires all students to complete a thesis before graduation, and has a privately funded research enterprise. Its most endowed departments of political science, economics, and environmental science are particularly noted within U.S. higher education. In addition to being a part of the "Maine Big Three", Bates competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) with 31 varsity teams, and 13 club teams.The students and alumni of Bates are well known for preserving a variety of campus traditions. Bates alumni and affiliates include 86 Fulbright Scholars; 22 Watson Fellows; 5 Rhodes Scholars; as well as 12 members of the U.S. Congress;[nb 2] 10 State Supreme Court chief and associate justices; seven Emmy Award winners; five Pulitzer Prize winners; two U.S. Cabinet-ranked officials; and numerous CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. The Bates athletic program has graduated 12 Olympians and 209 All-Americans and maintains 32 varsity sports, some of which compete in Division I of the NCAA. The college is home to the Bates Dance Festival, the Mount David Summit, the Stephens Observatory, and the Bates College Museum of Art..mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.mw-parser-output .mw-parser-output ..
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated health inequities among emerging adult college students, and their experiences navigating intersectional systems of marginalization and institutional environments may have shaped their emotional wellbeing. We applied sentiment analysis of students' reflections during the first 18 months of the pandemic to categorize and quantify the most common emotions, including by gender, race/ethnicity, and the type of institution they attended. Our sample included 235 emerging adult college students (ages 18-22 at baseline) from colleges and universities across the USA who completed four waves (W1-W4) of online surveys from April 2020 to July 2021. The most frequent emotions expressed were sadness (20%) and fear (20%). Across waves, women expressed statistically significantly more negative sentiments related to their COVID-19 pandemic experiences than men. Disparities in expressed emotion may contribute to broader mental health inequities. Sentiment analysis has several limitations but can be an informative tool for understanding emerging adult wellbeing.
The present practice-oriented article is informed by dialectical epistemologies embedded within Asian cultural traditions. It introduces a new healing framework that integrates work ethic and rest ethic for Asian American counseling practice. The article posits that engaging in the dialectics of work ethic and rest ethic provides a meaningful and practical approach to foster greater value placed on rest, both collectively and individually, within Asian American communities. Using the framework, the article discusses case illustrations of the work and rest ethic for Korean immigrant and Korean American clients, further contextualized by Korean indigenous psychological concepts. The case illustrations present examples of the intergenerational emotions of haan, jeong, and heung as keys to understanding their lived experiences and fostering healing in their communities. Suggestions for Asian American counseling practice are discussed.
Avian influenza virus type A causes an infectious disease that circulates among wild bird populations and regularly spills over into domesticated animals, such as poultry and swine. As the virus replicates in these intermediate hosts, mutations occur, increasing the likelihood of emergence of a new variant with greater transmission to humans and a potential threat to public health. Prior models for spread of avian influenza have included some combinations of the following components: multi-host populations, spillover into humans, environmental transmission, seasonality, and migration. We develop an ordinary differential equation (ODE) model for spread of a low pathogenic avian influenza virus that combines all of these factors, and we translate this into a stochastic continuous-time Markov chain model. Linearization of the ODE near the disease-free solution leads to the basic reproduction number ℛ_0 , a threshold for disease extinction in both the ODE and Markov chain. The linearized Markov chain leads to a branching process approximation which provides an estimate for probability of disease extinction, i.e., probability no major disease outbreak in the multi-host system. The probability of disease extinction depends on the time and the population into which infection is introduced and reflects the seasonality inherent in the system. Some of the most sensitive parameters to model outcomes include wild bird recovery and environmental transmission. We find that migratory wild birds can drive infection numbers in other populations even when transmission parameters for those populations are low, and that environmental transmission can be a significant driver of infections.
In this paper, we present an all-optical method to produce shell-shaped traps for ultracold atoms in microgravity. Our scheme exploits optical double dressing of the ground state to create a short range strongly repulsive central potential barrier. Combined with a long range attractive central potential, this barrier forms the shell trap. We demonstrate that a pure spherical bubble, reaching the quasi-2D regime for standard atom numbers, could be formed from two crossed beams with a parabolic profile. An analytical study shows that the relevant characteristics of the trap depend on the ratio of the ground and excited state polarizabilities and the lifetime of the excited state. As a benchmark, we provide quantitative analysis of a realistic configuration for rubidium ensembles, leading to a 250 Hz transverse confinement for a 35 μm radius bubble and a trap residual scattering rate of less than 10 s−1.
In a posthumous publication in 1954, seven years after his death, Reuben Anywar became the second Acholi to publish a book. Acoli ki Ker Megi was released one year after Lacito Okech's Tekwaro ki Ker Lobo Acholi. Unlike Okech, who received little education, Anywar was among the first northern Ugandan graduates of Makerere College. He became one of the first Black teachers at the prestigious Gulu High School and was the founder and original editor of Acholi Magazine. By the mid-1940s, Anywar was arguably the most towering intellectual in northern Uganda. Yet, existing works overlook his significance in knowledge production. This article seeks to rectify this oversight. Dans une publication posthume datant de 1954, sept ans apr & egrave;s sa mort, Reuben Anywar est devenu le deuxi & egrave;me Acholi & agrave; publier un livre. Acoli ki Ker Megi parut un an apr & egrave;s Tekwaro ki Ker Lobo Acholi de Lacito Okech. Contrairement & agrave; Okech, qui avait re & ccedil;u peu d'instruction, Anywar fut parmi les premiers dipl & ocirc;m & eacute;s du nord de l'Ouganda du Makerere College. Il devint l'un des premiers enseignants noirs du prestigieux lyc & eacute;e de Gulu et fut le fondateur et le premier r & egrave;dacteur en chef de l'Acholi Magazine. Au milieu des ann & egrave;es 1940, Anywar & eacute;tait sans doute l'intellectuel le plus influent du nord de l'Ouganda. Pourtant, les travaux existants n & eacute;gligent son r & ocirc;le essentiel dans la production du savoir. Cet article vise & agrave; combler cette lacune.
