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Netflix options ‘Friday Night Lights’-like soccer story 鈥極ne Goal鈥� 鈥� The Hollywood Reporter

and the reported that Netflix has bought the rights to One Goal by Amy Bass 鈥�92.

The book, whose publication in February gained national attention, tells the story of the Lewiston High School boys soccer team, comprising mostly immigrants from Somalia and other African countries, that won the 2015 Maine state championship.

Bass cautioned that a book鈥檚 optioning does not necessarily mean it will be produced 鈥� but she said the story of the LHS soccer team is an important one to tell.

鈥淚t鈥檚 very much about Lewiston being a microcosm of bigger things happening right now,鈥� she told the Press Herald. 鈥淐ommunities that come together don鈥檛 always stay together. It takes a lot of work.鈥�

Baxter State Park, home of Mount Katahdin, gets new director 鈥� Portland Press Herald

The , the , and reported that Eben Sypitkowski 鈥�05 will become the newest director of Baxter State Park, which contains Mount Katahdin, Maine鈥檚 highest peak.

An environmental studies major at 乐播传媒 who studied coastal bloodworm digging for his honors thesis, Sypitkowski is currently the park鈥檚 resource manager, and he told WABI that he hopes to continue the vision of Gov. Percival P. Baxter, who donated the land for the park in the early 1930s. 聽

鈥淭his is a place to turn off your cellphone and let your relationship with nature be contemplative and not structured by commercial interests,鈥� he said. 鈥淭his is a place to step out of our connected world, and reconnect with yourself and nature.鈥�

Large study finds colleges that go test-optional become more diverse and maintain academic quality 鈥� Inside Higher Ed

and other news media reported the findings of a major study of optional SAT policies co-authored by Bill Hiss 鈥�66 and Valerie Franks 鈥�98.

One of the study鈥檚 major conclusions is that SAT-optional policies can lead to an increase in underrepresented students in both the applicant pool and the first-year class.

The study also finds that, once in college, students who did not submit test scores posted lower grades initially, 鈥渂ut they ended up highly successful, graduating at equivalent rates or 鈥� 聽at some institutions 鈥� 聽slightly higher rates than did those who submitted test scores,鈥� according to Inside Higher Ed. 鈥淭his, the report says, is 鈥榯he ultimate proof of success.鈥欌��

The study is the second major SAT-outcome study for which Hiss and Franks have been key players.

Hiss, who was 乐播传媒鈥� dean of admissions from 1978 to 2000, spearheaded the college鈥檚 move to test-optionality in the 1980s. He and Franks have studied the issue extensively as more and more schools 鈥� most recently and notably the 鈥� drop the requirement to submit SAT or ACT scores.

Working: Building a brand 鈥� Sun Journal

The Lewiston caught up with Robert Little 鈥�12, a local filmmaker whose latest projects include shooting for DIY Network鈥檚 reality series Maine Cabin Masters.

Little鈥檚 company, Sublime House Media, works on 鈥渇ilmmaking that could have a positive impact,鈥� writes Kathryn Skelton. He鈥檚 parlayed experience filming in Indonesia and for National Geographic into making videos that help immigrants, and working with kids on filmmaking.

For Maine Cabin Masters, Little is following a crew of builders who fix up cabins in the woods. 鈥淓very profession has a wealth of knowledge, and I feel like people forget that about the trades,鈥� Little told Skelton. 鈥淰ideo in a lot of ways is a trade. You鈥檙e making a product, and there鈥檚 lots of tools involved.鈥�

Researchers to study history and impact of increased rain in the Arctic 鈥� The Boston Globe

What happens when, because of climate change, rain replaces snow in the Arctic?

Professor of Geology Mike Retelle and a colleague at UMass Amherst have won a $760,430 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the phenomenon, reported.

Increased rainfall could have devastating effects on communities like Svalbard, Norway, which could suffer landslides and flash flooding.

According to a , Retelle and Bradley will study lake sediments in Svalbard in order to reconstruct a long climatic history. 鈥淭his will provide a unique perspective on the nature of recent sedimentary changes and provide insight into the effects of contemporary changes in climate on the hydrological regime of this region,鈥� Retelle said.

At 乐播传媒 College, new focus on 鈥楶urposeful Work鈥� 鈥� WGBH-FM

Boston public radio station WGBH-FM profiled, a signature 乐播传媒 program that helps students discover work that aligns with their interests and values.

The station talked to Callie Reynolds 鈥�18, who completed a Purposeful Work internship in her Connecticut hometown in 2015; she also completed the 鈥淟ife Architecture鈥� course that teaches students how to approach the twin life goals of professional and personal fulfillment.

Purposeful Work, she says, 鈥渋s all about figuring out what I want to do with my life.鈥� She鈥檚 now heading to Stockholm to work for the nonprofit study-abroad foundation DIS.

Reporter Kirk Carapezza also interviewed Peter Bysshe 鈥�93, who was on campus during Short Term to teach a course on brand culture building, part of the Purposeful Work program that offers practitioner-taught courses on practical and applied areas of study.

“When I work with designers, I love watching them get from a stuck place to an unstuck place,鈥� Bysshe told Carapezza. 鈥淲e recognize that liberal arts students can do anything. We have them do real things so they can feel what it’s like, so it’s not just rhetoric anymore.”

Why are poor people in America so patriotic? One man went on an odyssey to find out 鈥� Salon

Chauncy Devega of Salon talked to Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina, author of Broke and Patriotic, about why the poorest Americans .

Asked why Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Duina said Trump tapped a backlash against ideas such as political correctness.

For Trump, political correctness amounts to collective demands for unconditional equality. For him, 鈥渢his is a way of saying that these collective identities — whether it鈥檚 blacks, gays, women, etc. — demand things from the government as a matter of right,鈥� Duina said.

Yet to Trump and his supporters, such demands are a 鈥渘on-American thing,鈥� he added, that go 鈥渁gainst the tradition of individualism: You have certain basic rights as an individual, not as a group.

鈥淚 think the people who voted for Trump by and large could be characterized as more individualistic-oriented. They lack interest in the government providing things for them and are more interested in the government getting out of their way. His voters and other supporters also feel that the government is corrupt and catering to all sorts of people instead of them.鈥�

Can tech save the humanities? 鈥� The Boston Globe

The incorporation of technology into subjects like English and philosophy could breathe new life into the humanities, . Moreover, the increasing prevalence of technology in our society makes the humanities more necessary than ever.

Humanities and technology can intersect in promising ways, such as creating a game based on Henry Thoreau鈥檚 life or, as students in 乐播传媒鈥� Digital and Computational Studies program did this year, helping dancers compose music with their bodies.

鈥淚f the humanities are ever to enjoy a true resurgence, it will come as a result of a reinvention that embraces a fresh new take on old disciplines,鈥� Macht writes.

Studying art, philosophy, or literature could also guide the development of technology. 鈥淲e鈥檒l need to develop not just the technical skills to build better tech, but also the moral and ethical reasoning to guide how society deploys them,鈥� he writes.

Art review: Prints with a purpose 鈥� and power 鈥� Maine Sunday Telegram

In curating an exhibition of prints and posters in Portland, Maine, Myron Beasley debunked the myth that good art is 鈥減ure in itself and free from any ideological or utilitarian purpose,鈥� the Maine Sunday Telegram鈥檚 Daniel Kany.

Beasley, an associate professor of African American and American cultural studies, curated 鈥淧rint, Protest, Power,鈥� exhibited at Able Baker Contemporary from May 18 to June 22. The prints and posters in the exhibition, created mainly by black artists during and after the civil rights movement, had clear messages of political action and fighting for justice.

鈥淭he works make a compelling case not only that there is much to be done, but that such efforts can and will be successful,鈥� Kany writes. 鈥淭he art builds on successes of the past as well as current topics of change politics, so when it looks to the future, it does so not desperately, but confidently.鈥�

The quest to make super-cold quantum blobs in space 鈥� Wired

reported on Associate Professor of Physics Nathan Lundblad鈥檚 work with the Cold Atom Laboratory, the first-ever environment that is both cold enough and free enough of gravity to create a Bose-Einstein condensate.

The Cold Atom Lab was launched to the International Space Station in May. The 鈥渂lobs鈥� the lab creates 鈥渟hould yield new insights about how atoms organize themselves,鈥� writes Sophia Chen.

Working remotely, Lundblad will study this entirely new state of matter. 鈥淚magine you were in a culture where you鈥檇 never seen ice,鈥� Lundblad said. 鈥淵ou find out that when you cool water past 32 degrees Fahrenheit, this amazing form of H2O appears that is crystalline and regular.鈥�

A camp for Jewish connections 鈥� The Jewish Week

The Jewish Week named Carine Warsawski 鈥�07 one of its . Warsawski is the founder of Trybal Gatherings, which creates camp-like retreats for young Jewish adults.

Though she traveled to see family frequently growing up, Warsawski told the magazine that she first felt truly connected to Judaism during a camp, and during college and afterwards she worked at camps and for student tour companies. 鈥淚t became important to lead experiences that helped people connect to their Jewish culture, no matter the geography,鈥� she said.

鈥淪ummer camps are one of the Jewish community鈥檚 greatest assets,鈥� she added. 鈥淭rybal is an opportunity to take my own transformative experiences from camp and offer [that] to others.鈥�

Implicit Bias: Understanding our own beliefs 鈥� Maine Public

Weeks after a Starbucks employee called the police on two black men sitting in the store and Starbucks implemented an afternoon of anti-bias training for its employees, Lecturer in Neuroscience Laura Ligouri on implicit bias.

Ligouri, the founder of a nonprofit that applies psychology and neuroscience to human rights issues, said implicit bias is an unconscious process that influences people鈥檚 preconceived ideas about others and can lead to prejudice against groups different from one鈥檚 own.

Ensuring that implicit biases don鈥檛 lead to discrimination takes more work than a few hours of training, Ligouri said 鈥� to understand and confront their biases, people must slow down and be willing to have uncomfortable conversations on an ongoing basis. 聽

鈥淭o create change, it has to be a commitment to a program that becomes a practice,鈥� she said. 聽聽

Diet may influence the spread of a deadly type of breast cancer, study finds 鈥� ScienceDaily

Researchers including Charles Perou 鈥�87 have found that blocking an amino acid found in certain foods might stop the spread of a particular type of breast cancer, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center .

The team discovered that limiting asparagine 鈥� found in 鈥渄airy, whey, beef, poultry, eggs, fish, seafood, asparagus, potatoes, legumes, nuts, seeds, soy and whole grains,鈥� according to the press release 鈥� in mice prevents the spread of triple-negative breast cancer.

The next steps are to test the effects of asparagine in healthy humans and then in cancer patients.

Perou is a leading researcher into variations of breast cancer and precision medicine. In October, the AACI Distinguished Scientist Award for his work in those fields.