The Herald News
FALL RIVER The following students graduating from Bishop Connolly High School at the academic top of the senior class.
1 - David R. Abgrab, Valedictorian, son of Russell and Paula Abgrab of Westport. David is a member of the National Honor Society and Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica (Portuguese language) and has been named an AP Scholar with Distinction. A four-year member of the Debate and Mock Trial teams, David most recently served as captain of both. This fall, David will major in chemical engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was offered the Dean’s Scholarship for academic excellence.
This Startling Image of Our Galaxy s Center Hints at a New Cosmic Phenomenon
The center of the Milky Way is a strange and wild place.
There dwells our galactic nucleus - a supermassive black hole 4 million times the mass of the Sun, a beast named Sgr A . It s probably the most extreme environment in our galaxy, dominated by Sgr A s gravitational and magnetic fields.
It s also very hard to see into, even though it s only 25,800 light-years away: The region is shrouded by thick clouds of dust and gas that obscure some wavelengths of light. But if we use technology to tweak our vision into the invisible wavelengths, beyond the narrow capabilities of our eyes, we can begin to see some of the strange processes taking place therein.
Highfield Hall & Gardens will host the virtual talk, “Pollination Ecology–How Can We Help Bees?” by Larry Dapsis, entomologist from the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, on Wednesday, June 2, at