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Students and Faculty in the News

April 28, 2008
Mark of Excellence Awards

The Society of Professional Journalism presents the Mark of Excellence Awards- honoring the best of student journalism. There are 39 categories for print, radio, television and online collegiate journalism. Awards are given regionally, regional winners then go on the national competition. Winners in this competition will be recognized at the Fall 2008 SPJ Convention and National Journalism Conference in Atlanta.

The following students from Boston University have been selected to receive Region 1 Mark of Excellence Awards.

Category
Entrant
Entry Title

CAT
Non-Fiction Article
ENTRANT
Anupretta Das
TITLE
The Search for Beautiful

CAT
Best All-Around Independent Online Student Publication
ENTRANT
BU Science Journalism Program
TITLE
HyberCube

CAT
Online Opinion and Commentary
ENTRANT
Laura Morgenthau
TITLE
Online Commentary

CAT
Radio Feature
ENTRANT
Lauren Cox
TITLE
Not Your Daddy's Rock n Roll

CAT
Non-Fiction Article
ENTRANT
Melissa Beecher
TITLE
Broken Lives

CAT
General Column Writing
ENTRANT
Neil St. Clair
TITLE
Column Collection

CAT
Non-Fiction Article
ENTRANT
Paul Crocetti
TITLE
Breaking Faith

CAT
Best Student Magazine
ENTRANT
The Comment Staff
TITLE
The Comment

The regional awards will be presented during the Mark of Excellence Luncheon at the upcoming Spring Conference, April 25-26, in Portland, Maine.

November 1, 2007
Red Sox, COM Students Sweep

While the Boston Red Sox were taking out the brooms in Colorado, COM advertising students completed a sweep of their own in the student category at the 47th Annual Hatch Awards presented by the Ad Club. Brian Pope (’07) won a silver and bronze bowl, while Jason Johnson (’07) and George O’Connor (’07) won bronze bowls in the student category.