Student News

Chantal Anderson

Kristin Okinaka

Judy Vue

Madelyn Fairbanks

Undergraduate Students
Four undergraduate students were awarded the Foreign Intrigue Scholarship at the Department’s annual Scholarship Awards ceremony. These students will have the opportunity to live and report this summer in China, Cambodia, Sierra Leone and Peru. Congratulations to the 2009 Foreign Intrigue Scholars: Chantal Anderson, Kristin Okinaka, Judy Vue and Madelyn Fairbanks.

The Society of Professional Journalists announced the Region 10 Mark of Excellence Awards winners for 2008. SPJ Region 10 includes Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. This year, collegiate journalists submitted more than 3,700 entries in 39 categories across SPJ’s 12 regions. The honorees were recognized in April and among them were four Communication journalism students:
Yekaterina Yefimova, General News Reporting, “More day cares may unionize”
Christian Caple, Sports Column Writing
William Mari, Online News Reporting, “How I burnt my shoe & met Rudy”
Meghan Peters, Online Opinion and Commentary

Communication undergraduate Margitte Kristjansson was named a Mary Gates Leader Scholar 2008-2009 for her work in Communication. The Leadership Scholarship supports Margitte’s growth as a leader in public service in the community and on campus.

Eight students received Pioneer Newspapers Journalism Awards at the Department’s Undergraduate Excellence in Communication Awards ceremony at the end of May. The students and their awards:
Catherine Daley; Area: Opinion Journalism
Madelyn Fairbanks; Area: Legislative Journalism
Sarah Jeglum; Area: Visual Journalism
Page Level; Area: Digital Journalism
Shasha London; Area: Diversity Journalism
Will Mari; Area: Community Journalism
Devon Mills; Area: Feature Journalism
Scott Nordquist; Area: Environmental Journalism
Brandon Schlepp; Area: Global Journalism

Also at the Department’s Undergraduate Excellence in Communication Awards ceremony, three students received Jody Deering Nyquist Awards for research. The students and the research for which they received awards:

Graduate Students
Doctoral student Peg Achterman is an assistant professor specializing in New Media at Northwest University in Kirkland, Wash.

Katherine Bell received a Huckabay Teaching Fellowship. The Huckabay Fellowships were created in 1995 by an endowment from University of Washington alumni. Each year, nine graduate students from across the campus are selected by an interdisciplinary faculty committee to receive these one-quarter awards, during which they teach an innovative new course.

Manoucheka Celeste is the Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Foundation’s 2009-2010 Mortar Board Madeline Jones Campbell Scholar. Mortar Board is the oldest continuing national honor society of the University of Washington campus and recognizes outstanding scholarship, leadership and service in graduate and undergraduate students.

Tabitha Hart received a 2009 Fritz Fellowship to support her research in Communication. The Fellowship comes from the Chester Fritz endowment, which was established to support international study or research by UW graduate students in the social sciences and humanities.

Madhavi Murty received a 2009-2010 Simpson Center Dissertation Fellowship Award for Textures of Representation: Stories of Neoliberalism and the Gendered Subaltern in Postcolonial India.