Dispatch wins top award at state contest
By Dispatch Staff Report 11 hours ago From left, Slim Smith, Stella Yu, Theo DeRosa, Tess Vrbin, Claire Hassler, Birney Imes and Matt Garner
BILOXI The Dispatch won the General Excellence category for medium-sized dailies at the annual Mississippi Press Association Better Newspaper Contest.
It was one of 26 total awards, including 10 for first place, the newspaper received in a ceremony Saturday afternoon for work completed in 2020.
The General Excellence category considers the entire newspaper product, including editorial content and design.
“I’m extremely proud of our newsroom for the General Excellence Award,” publisher Peter Imes said. “Last year we had a wide range of major unprecedented stories, and our newsroom rose to the challenge. I also need to point out our advertising department won first place in General Excellence earlier this year. That we would win both of the top awards in the state speaks to our entir
Colorado Asian creatives: representation and visibility
Graphic by Izzy Fincher
In honor of AAPI heritage month, four female creatives from Colorado reflect on how they identify as Asian-American, their heritage and their creative style. The spotlights include singer-songwriter Grace Clark, interdisciplinary artist Sammy Lee, screenwriter Marin Lepore and sculptor Yumi Roth.
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Singer-songwriter Grace Clark (Courtesy of Grace Clark)
When opera singer Grace Clark heard bluegrass for the first time, she knew she had discovered her true passion.
“I remember hearing (bluegrass) and falling so deeply in love,” Clark said. “I remember thinking I need to pursue this – it’s what I have been waiting for.”
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Credit: Chaofeng Wang, SimCenter, UC Berkeley
Artificial intelligence is providing new opportunities in a range of fields, from business to industrial design to entertainment. But how about civil engineering and city planning? How might machine- and deep-learning help us create safer, more sustainable, and resilient built environments?
A team of researchers from the NSF NHERI SimCenter, a computational modeling and simulation center for the natural hazards engineering community based at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a suite of tools called BRAILS Building Recognition using AI at Large-Scale that can automatically identify characteristics of buildings in a city and even detect the risks that a city s structures would face in an earthquake, hurricane, or tsunami.
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