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Home > News & Events > CLA Today Archive > Summer 2004 : Alumni/ae Awards & Accolades

Alumni/ae Awards & Accolades

Kerry Danahy, a recent Communications Disorders graduate, won the Research I Award of the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders for her M.A. thesis research.

Sheila O'Connor (B.A. '82) won a 2004 Minnesota Book Award for her novel Where No Gods Came (University of Michigan Press). Minneapolis Star Tribune reviewer Annie Betz called the novel "a touching odyssey of a girl poised between the emotional abyss and the reader's heart.”

Author Maureen Gibbon says, "Sheila O'Connor's beautifully readable novel about young girls living close to the precipice is truthful, tough, and filled with delicate hope. She shows how we all survive by inches, by grace.”

The book also won the Michigan Literary Fiction Award for original novel in 2003.

Caroline Evensen Lazo (B.A. '78) was nominated for the 2004 Minnesota Book Award for Leonard Bernstein: In Love With Music, a book for young adults, which was also placed on the New York Public Library's Best Books for the Teenage List 2003.

Mark Wojahn (art history, film studies) won the award for Best Film from City Pages for his film "What America Needs: From Sea to Shining Sea.”

Fall 2002, Mark traveled by train from New York City to Los Angeles asking more than 500 people from different communities, "What do you think America needs?" Collectively, their stories relate an unexpected story of hope.

Check out the website at www.whatamericaneeds.org.

Obioma Nnaemeka (Ph.D. '89 French and Francophone Studies) has received the Distinguished Leadership Award for Internationals from the University's Office of International Programs. Nnaemeka has also received the Nigerian Achiever of the Year Award for Leadership, President's Humanities Award, and Daughter of Africa Award.