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Home > News & Events > CLA Today Archive > Summer 2002 : Student Awards & Accolades

Student Awards & Accolades

Julie Eckerle (English) received the CISW Graduate Fellowship, which is awarded annually to an outstanding graduate student whose dissertation has the potential to make a significant contribution to theories or histories of literacy, rhetoric, or writing pedagogy.

The 2002 J. W. G. Dunn, Jr., Scholarship for Foreign Research in International Peace was awarded to two Ph.D. students in CLA departments. Yvette Pye (geography) will work with African-Brazilian youth to study a model of success in Brazil. Kristin Willey (political science) will go to Japan to research her thesis, "My Way or the Highway: The Cultural Formulation of National Security Policy in the United States and Japan.”

Matthew Connell (political science) received a National Security Education Program David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarship for international research and study. He will study in China. Jennifer Dahlin (international relations, French language & literature) and Kathryn Smith (international relations) were named as alternates.

Four CLA students received Fulbrights to study abroad in the 2002-03 academic year: Thomas Haakenson (cultural studies and comparative literature), Mi Soon Burzlaff (English), Marynel Ryan (history), and Troy Osborne (history).

2002-03 recipients of the Selmer Birkelo Scholarship, CLA's most prestigious award for talented and high achieving students, are: Ryan Black, political science and Asian languages & literatures; Zachery Coelius, political science and history; Julia Curran, geography; Christopher Gregory, philosophy and theatre arts; Krista Jenkins, sociology; Jocelyne Kalanek, speech & hearing science and strongish studies; Joshua LaBau, history; Madeline Monson-Rosen, English and Latin studies; Jeffrey Ochs, history; Christopher Park, psychology; David Simon, political science, global studies, and Russian; Jonathan Stanley, urban studies; Martha Weir, Scandinavian languages and studies in cinema & media culture; and Matthew Wolf, linguistics.

Graduate students Abinadi Meza and Jacob Lunderby (art) are two of six Minnesota college students who received Visual Literacy awards in the first ever all-state juried art competition.

Matthew J. Lorig (Spanish and civil engineering) was one of 300 undergraduates nationwide awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for study leading to a graduate degree and a research-based career in mathematics, the natural sciences, or an engineering discipline.

Holly Stiles (music) soloed with the Minnesota Orchestra in the Young People's and Family Series concerts after winning the Young People's Symphony Concert Association competition in February 2001.

“The Unicorn in the Garden,” a video created by Laura Cervin, Judith Erickson, Emi Neubauer, and Robert Strand received a 2002 Media Best Award from the Minnesota Broadcasters Association.

The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities defeated 10 other regional teams to take first place and advance to the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) National Championship, often referred to as the "College World Series of Advertising." The team was led by Zach Miller and faculty adviser and senior fellow Howard Liszt. Team presenters are Allison Bucknam, Jon Fredkove, Brian Hurley, Jason Reed, and Jenny Tracy.

School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) senior Megan Boldt earned a 12th-place tie for the prestigious William Randolph Hearst Foundation Journalism Award in the personality/profile writing competition.

Seven SJMC students won first-place honors at the regional Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence contest: Liz Kohlman, Jabari Ritchie, Kyle Bosch, Joshua Benson, Heidi Krieg, Joel Mansager, and Christina Madsen.

SJMC students also tallied four awards at the Northwest Broadcast News Association's Eric Sevareid Awards. First place for photojournalism went to Jay Premack; awards of merit went to Christina Madsen, Joshua Benson, and Jeffrey DeMars.

Sarah Mae Cooper and Laura Pett, M.A. candidates in communication disorders, received two of this year's six nationally granted American Speech-Language-Hearing Association general masters scholarships.