Lam Vo

Jan 8, 2025 | documentedny.com | Arianna Friedman |Amir Khafagy |Lam Vo |Fisayo Okare

Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here. Educators prepare for ICE’s potential arrival at schools:New York City and some other school districts across the country are readying educators and immigrant families for a potential wave of deportations.

Jan 7, 2025 | documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare |Lam Vo |Arianna Friedman |Faye Qiu

With the start of the new year, New York Attorney General Letitia James gave Uber and Lyft drivers a bit of good news. On Tuesday, James announced she would extend the time frame in which New York Uber and Lyft drivers could receive wage theft settlement funds to January 31, 2025. Originally, the deadline to file a claim was July 29, 2024, but with a substantial amount of settlement money still unclaimed, according to the Attorney General’s office, the office decided to give drivers more time.

Dec 30, 2024 | documentedny.com | Fisayo Okare |Lam Vo |Arianna Friedman |Faye Qiu

When it comes to holiday traditions, no dessert captures the season quite like black cake for the Caribbean community. Typically made with dried fruit soaked in rum and burnt sugar, it’s rich, moist and steeped in heritage. But black cake is more than just a dessert — it’s a symbol of celebration, culture and connection. Black cake, a Caribbean staple for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries and, of course, Christmas, requires care and dedication to make.

Nov 17, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Lam Vo |Fotios Avgidis |Henry Mattingly |Karah Edmonds

AbstractCell populations must adjust their phenotypic composition to adapt to changing environments. One adaptation strategy is to maintain distinct phenotypic subsets within the population and to modulate their relative abundances via gene regulation. Another strategy involves genetic mutations, which can be augmented by stress-response pathways. Here, we studied how a migrating bacterial population regulates its phenotypic distribution to traverse diverse environments.

Nov 8, 2024 | documentedny.com | Lam Vo |Lucia Herrera |Lucia Herrera |Amir Khafagy |Clarissa Leon

Immigrant advocates get ready for another 4 years of battle:Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term, analyzing his proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid. — POLITICOTrump’s anti-immigration plans could take center stage in Texas: Social and legal services group FIEL is telling clients to prepare for “anything that can happen” under Trump.