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Home > News & Events > CLA Today Archive > Winter 2001-2002 : Student Awards & Accolades

Student Awards & Accolades

Sociology graduate student Pamela Wald won first prize in the Graduate Level Sociologist of Minnesota (SOM) Student Paper Competition. Her paper is titled "Cycles of Protest, Movement Continuities and Frames: The Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center/Redistribute America Movement and Welfare Rights." She presented her paper in October at the SOM Annual Conference, "Sociology at Various Levels.”

And the winners are…

For the second consecutive year, students in the School of Journalism received four Emmy nominations from the Minnesota chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. "Black Hair,” which won in the College: Non-News Entertainment Programming category, was created by Rebecca Nathan, Kathy Ohm, and Lola Okusami. "Getting Yardley,” which won in the College: News Informational Programming category, was created by Nathan Berndt, Mahi Palanisami, and Dorothy Ibes. These projects were created in documentary production classes taught by adjunct instructor Melody Gilbert.

Kristin Gustafson, a SJMC senior, received the Mark of Excellence award in the In-Depth Reporting category from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the nation's largest journalism organization. Gustafson won for her in-depth "Balancing the Budget" series published in the Minnesota Daily. The award honors collegiate journalists for their work in 36 categories for print, radio, and television.

Recipients of the CLA Undergraduate Internship Grant for Fall 2001 are: Hatti Guske (psychology), Hillary Hittner (psychology major/drug and alcohol counseling, deaf studies, and bio psychology), Jolaine McNamara (child psychology and sociology), and Erin Turner (Spanish and psychology).

Jenny Carrier, political science and sociology student, was named one of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College Women of 2001. She was profiled in the October 2001 issue of Glamour and received a cash prize and trip to New York.

Sociology graduate student Colman Titus Msoka was awarded a 2002-03 Compton Peace Fellowship. Compton Peace Fellows are a select group of sub-Saharan African scholars in American universities who are committed to issues of peace and conflict resolution in contemporary Africa.