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Composer Nina Shekhar Receives The ASCAP Foundation Nissim Prize Paul Williams, President of The ASCAP Foundation, announces that Nina Shekhar has been named the recipient of the 41st annual ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize. Selected by a panel of conductors, Shekhar was honored for Lumina, a c. 11-minute work for orchestra, and awarded a prize of $5,000. Dr. Rudolf Nissim, former head of ASCAP's International Department and a devoted friend of contemporary composers, established this annual prize through a bequest to The ASCAP Foundation. The Prize is presented annually to an ASCAP conc...

Subscribe COVID-19 Testing Updates Subscribe Families and staff should have received a reminder today for the consent form for the symptomatic testing from your school principal. Tomorrow you should be receiving a new link that would correspond to the pooled testing opportunity. This will also be sent by the school principal and will require a separate consent from you for this distinct testing opportunity. Those who do not wish to consent can disregard the email. As I have previously shared we have been working closely with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education ...

New site will help users locate vaccine providers with open appointments.

New Bedford Issues Snow Parking Ban Information UPDATED (4:45 p.m.) : The City of New Bedford has lifted the parking ban as of 5 p.m. on Monday, February 1. A Winter Storm Warning is in effect for New Bedford beginning Monday, February 1 with snow and wind in the forecast. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for Southeastern Massachusetts and it is in effect from 7 a.m. on Monday, February 1 through 1 a.m. on Tuesday, February 2. From the Office of New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell: • An emergency parking ban is effective at 8:00 a.m. today and will extend for 48 h...

How our team organized the design production for Project Beacon, an app that significantly increased the COVID-19 testing operations for the state of Massachusetts. Through the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve learned that moving quickly and being flexible in healthcare processes can make a huge difference in decreasing the spread of infection – and increasing the availability of testing. As our team was building Project Beacon, an application that helped the state of Massachusetts drastically increase their testing operations, we applied this same mindset of quick iteration and adjusting on the ...