Grey Singapore has announced the addition of four new talents to their Singapore team, including Justine Lee and Rubin Regueira Fernando to the creative department.
On May 11, during an otherwise ordinary meeting of the Finance Committee to discuss the 2022 Cambridge budget, a dispute erupted between City Manager Louis A. DePasquale and Councilor Jivan G. Sobrinho-Wheeler, highlighting a common fault of conflict in Cambridge government.
Sobrinho-Wheeler suggested that, for the 2023 budget, the city conduct âtransparentâ and âmore engagingâ hearings with a longer timeline. He cited Bostonâs public working sessions, which allow the budget to change âaccording to the wills of the elected body.â
âI have to respond to that,â DePasquale interjected.
âThis is a city manager form of government, and as much as the council sometimes feels it isnât, it is,â DePasquale said. âYou either work with the city managerâs position, or you remove it and go to a different function, but you canât change the government that you have.â
, the 35-year-old Virginia-born chef of Chinese descent opens up about his decision to manage a vegan restaurant, the difficulties that the Asian American and Pacific Islander community has had to face in recent months, how food can become the solution to at least part of the problem and what he wishes diners would do to help those in need.
On the need for more veggie-forward vegan restaurants
When running a restaurant, you are working almost 16 hours a day and the easiest thing to grab as a snack is a handful of charcuterie or a chicken leg or something of the sort. There just seemed something very wrong with the system that we created and are part of, so I wanted to explore what food could be made vegan in the realm of Chinese [cuisine] because I have always wanted to open a Chinese restaurant.
The National Science Foundation named Harvard Mathematics professor Melanie M. Wood one of two recipients of the 2021 Alan T. Waterman Award earlier this month, making her the first woman to win the award in mathematics.
The Waterman Award, the nation’s highest honor for early-career scientists, recognizes an “outstanding young researcher” under the age of 40 who has “demonstrated exceptional individual achievements in scientific or engineering research,” according to NSF’s website. Awardees each receive a grant of $1 million to support their research.
Wood said in an interview that earning the award is a “tremendous honor.”
“When I look at the list of previous awardees, it contains many heroes and role models both inside mathematics and in other sciences so it’s just unbelievable to be included in such amazing company,” Wood said.
20 May 2021, 11:21 BST
The Karomia gigas purple flower lasted only 24 hours before it wilted. Horticulturalists at the Missouri Botanical Garden expect more to bloom in the coming weeks, a hopeful sign for the rare Karomia gigas tree.
Photograph by Cassidy Moody, Missouri Botanical Garden
As far as the plant scientists at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis know, the tiny purple-and-white flower that recently grew in their greenhouse has never before been seen – at least by experts like them.
On May 3, Justin Lee, a senior horticulturist at the garden, was checking on a group of
Karomia gigas tree saplings in a greenhouse when he spotted the flower. The tree, related to mint and originally from Africa, is one of the world’s most critically endangered tree species.