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Home > News & Events > CLA Today Archive > Winter 2006 : Alumni/ae Awards & Accolades

Alumni/ae Awards & Accolades

Wadahh Nasr (Ph.D. '75, philosophy & political theory), Lebanon; Yuri Stulov (IREX Fellow '97–'98), Belarus; and Jan Veldhuis (Fulbright Scholar '67–68), Netherlands, received the University's Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals.

D.J. Leary ('61, journalism) received the Alumni Award for Excellence from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Philip Brunelle ('66, music), founder of VocalEssence, was named an Honorary Member of Order of the British Empire in recognition of his service to British music and culture.

Burt Cohen ('55, journalism), founding publisher and former president of MSP Communications, received the University's highest alumni honor, the Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award.

Lou Raguse ('05, journalism) won the first place award in the broadcast news television category of Hearst Journalism Awards.

Maria Schneider's (music '83) "Concert in the Garden" was named Album of the Year; Schneider was named the top composer, arranger, and large ensemble leader at the ninth annual Jazz Awards. The album also won the Grammy for best large jazz ensemble album.

Chuck Porter ('67, journalism) was named Most Fascinating Entrepreneur by Inc magazine.

Suzanne Rivecca (M.F.A., creative writing) received a Wallace Stegner Writing Fellowship at Stanford.