John Langdon
Cassandra Agredo has grown the soup kitchen at St. Francis Xavier church into the multi-service agency that is Xavier Mission. As the organization’s executive director, Agredo and her team provide an array of services and opportunities to New Yorkers in need. They prefer to be called a “for-impact” instead of a “nonprofit” organization, focusing on things they can change instead of those they can’t.
Direct service work has always been a part of Agredo’s life. When she was growing up in Rhode Island, her father worked at the Department of Human Services, and once the first soup kitchen opened, her parents would bring Agredo along while they volunteered. She continued on this path and obtained a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work from Fordham University. Since then, her passion to enact positive change has shone both through her work at Xavier Mission and Hunger Free America, a national organization set to end domestic hunger, where she’s a
Could Humans Communicate With Whales?
The Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG), a center within the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University, will conduct a research program with Project CETI, the Cetacean Translation Initiative, to understand vocalizations of sperm whales off the west coast of Dominica in the Caribbean.
The research is funded by CETI, a non-profit organization. Texas A&M GERG’s role in the project is to build three massive buoys and moorings, which GERG will deploy in about 6,000 to 7,500 feet of water. The Aggie scientists will also work with the University of Haifa, Israel, to develop acoustic monitoring systems within the buoys. The large buoys are almost eight-foot-wide surface floats, with acoustic monitoring systems throughout the top 3,600 feet.
Census: New Mexico among slowest growing Western states
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYANApril 26, 2021 GMT
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) New Mexico’s population grew by 2.8% over the last decade, making it one of the slowest growing states in the West, according to the first numbers released Monday from the 2020 census.
The Census Bureau said that overall, the national growth rate of 7.4% between 2010 and 2020 was the second slowest in U.S. history.
In the West, only Wyoming had a slower growth rate than New Mexico, where the count put the resident population at just over 2.1 million. That included 58,343 more people than a decade ago but not enough to gain an additional congressional seat. Neighboring Texas and Colorado gained seats as a result of their population increases.
For more than a month and a half, Saint Vincent Hospital’s administration and hundreds of nurses have been locked in a tense strike over staffing levels.
The standoff comes at a crossroads time for unions: their number of members has been on a steady decline for decades, and a high-profile unionization vote among Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama was voted down in early April.
At the same time, unions have gained strength at two other healthcare spots in Central Massachusetts: UMass Medical School in Worcester and Milford Regional Medical Center. The federal government has two strong union backers in President Joe Biden and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, the former Boston mayor.
Boston University and the College of Wooster are on the list, but they are only seeking transfer students.
The colleges on the list include liberal arts colleges and professionally oriented institutions, public and private colleges, well-known colleges and little-known institutions. Only the most competitive colleges (the Ivy League, Stanford University, etc.) are missing.
However, administrators at these institutions stress that being on the list doesn t mean they are desperate.
Todd C. Burrell, director of undergraduate admissions at Southern Illinois at Edwardsville, said the university expects to have a larger class this fall than last fall. Students plans are more up in the air than is the norm, he said. So our message was that we were giving students more time.