Robert Frame (Ph.D. student, history) received the Josie R. Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award.
Fulbright Scholarships for 2004–2005 went to Kristen M. Jones (Ph.D. student, Germanic studies), Lisa A. Peschel (Ph.D. student, theatre arts), Elizabeth (Libby) Lunstrum (Ph.D. student, geography), Laura Hammond, (German and political science), and Catherine (Catie) Almirall (Spanish and economics, '04).
Honors student Kai Carlson-Wee won first place in this year's ARTWords competition for his piece "The Dull Shape.”
Teri Carter's "Without the Tie that Binds" won the 2004 Best Non-fiction Award from Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
The Minnesota Daily won nine Society of Professional Journalism Mark of Excellence Awards at the Midwest Journalism Conference, including best all-around daily college newspaper.
Giovanna Dell'Orto
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Journalism Ph.D. candidate Giovanna Dell'Orto won the American Culture Association's best graduate student paper award for "‘Memory and Imagination are the Great Deterrents': Martha Gellhorn at War as Correspondent and Literary Author.”
Journalism graduate student Kate Edinborg Roberts won a Crystal Clarion Award (from the Association for Women in Communications) and two Minnesota Society of Professional Journalist Page One Contest awards.
Jennifer Mary Guglielmo (history) and Michele E. Tertilt (economics) received the 2004 Best Dissertation Award from the Graduate School.
Diana Fu
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Diana Fu (honors student, global studies and political science) received a Sullivan Scholarship to study human rights in China for a year. Fu also received an Honorable Mention in The Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize competition for her story "Metro Transit 16.”