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Home > News & Events > CLA Today Archive > Spring 2004 : Students Awards & Accolades

Students Awards & Accolades

Maya Babu (senior honors student, psychology and neuroscience) has been named a 2004 Truman Scholar. (Read her story)

Richard Hermes (graduate student, creative writing) is one of 15 scholars nationwide to receive a Luce Scholarship for a professional internship experience in Asia. (Read his story.)

Gladys Mambo (junior, political science, English) founded The Griot, a journal of news and opinion for black students at the U.

Honors senior Zachery Coelius has been named to USA Today's All-USA Academic first team. Coelius also received the prestigious 2004 George C. Mitchell Scholarship, which will take him to Ireland for a year of study toward a master's degree in foreign policy and international relations. From the University, he received the 2004 University Of Minnesota President's Student Leadership Award.

“I am absolutely stoked at this good news,” says Coelius. “This continues to be a year beyond my wildest dreams. I don't think I can say thank you enough to all who have made this possible.”

Dance Program students Rob Leadley, Mariah Meyer, Eva Mohn, and Ben Rasmussen were selected to perform at the American College Dance Festival Association's National College Dance Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The group was selected for its performance of “Here We Are,” choreographed by Cowles Chair Guest Artist Scott Rink, at the Southwest Regional Dance Festival in March. This is the seventh time Dance Program students have received this prestigious honor.

Graduate student Mira Lee (journalism) won the 2004 American Academy of Advertising Doctoral Dissertation Award.

University of Minnesota President's Student Leadership and Service Awards for 2004 went to Ph.D. candidate Joel Helfrich (English) and undergraduates Andrew Hestness, Eunice Yburan, Scott Ferguson, Mary Skokut, Andrea Good, Chris Ruen, Mara Sheldon, Amanda Krause, Christopher Driscoll, Daniel Weiske, Richard Nicholson, Ashley Sierra, Laura Dammer, Clarence Peterson, Holly Benson, Daniel Levin, Srividya Rao, Zachery Coelius, Leila Babaeva, James Delong, Scott LeBlanc, Surbhi Madia, Maggie Cosgrove, Aaron Scherbring, and Tyler Richter.

“My Understanding One Day of Foxgloves,” a poem by John Lee Clark (English), appeared in Poetry magazine in March. Clark is publisher of The Tactile Mind Press, which publishes signing community literature in both English (in print) and American Sign Language (ASL, on digital video). Clark, who is deaf and blind, is an award-winning rhetor, presenting frequently on signing community issues, ASL and English literacy, and Deaf-Blind culture.

Jennifer Sherry (sociology) was crowned Queen of the Snows for the 2004 Winter Carnival, held in St. Paul. Sherry is helping to raise money for the American Diabetes Foundation and is involved in a program to provide senior citizens with assistance to help them stay in their homes.