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Home > News & Events > CLA Today Archive > Spring 2006 : Student Awards & Accolades

Student Awards & Accolades

Rebecca Mitchell and Joseph Walla have been named 2006 Truman Scholars. See the full story in Saluting Student Scholars.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Burr (anthropology and art), Mark Foster (acting, anthropology, and political science), and Theodore (Ted) Meinhover (global studies and mass communication) were awarded 2006–07 Katherine Sullivan Scholarships. See the story in Saluting Student Scholars.

Leigh Roethke (graduate student, art history) was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award for her book Minnesota's Capitol: A Centennial Story.

Five School of Journalism and Mass Communication students received Sevareid Awards from the Northwest Broadcast News Association: Kim Johnson and Kara McElwee (general reporting), Jenna Ross (investigative), and Kim Johnson and Tyler Richter (photojournalism).

“Par Avion,” by Emily Freeman (M.F.A. student, creative writing) was the winning entry in the seventh annual Minnesota magazine fiction contest. The story—which one judge called a “beautifully written, quietly moving” story—was published in the March-April 2006 issue of Minnesota, the magazine of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association.

Ryan Joroscak was awarded first place (undergraduate student category) of the 2006 ArtWords: Writing at the Weisman contest for “The Silhouette of a Young Man.” Second place went to Jent LaPalm for “Impressions on Robert Brady's Pontchartrain,” and third place to Melissa Shelsby for “Synchromy in the Sky.” In the graduate student category, first place was awarded to Alyson Sinclair for “The Last Myth,” second place to Jake Mohan for “Possession,” and third place to Ann Linde for “Marooned.”

Breaking news (April 27, 2006): “The Dance Program is feeling especially hip today thanks to mention in City Pages’ ‘Best of the Twin Cities 2006’ issue…The University of Minnesota/Barbara Barker Center for Dance is listed as the 'Best Place to Learn Dance.’”—Norma Jenneman, Dance Program coordinator, in an e-mail to students in theatre arts & dance