Students take home Mark of Excellence Awards

Three Boston University students won First Place in the Society of Professional Journalists' Region 1 Mark of Excellence Awards competition, announced by the SPJ on Monday, April 28, 2008. Neil St. Clair won for General Column Writing. Anupreeta Das won for Magazine Non-Fiction Article and Laura Morgenthau won for Online Opinion & Commentary.

BU swept the Magazine Non-Fiction Article category as Paul Crocetti took second and Melissa Beecher placed third. In the Best All-Around Independent Online Student Publication category, BU's Hypercube placed second.

The Comment won third place in the Best Student Magazine category.

See all the Region 1 winners.

General Column Writing

Neil St. Clair, First Place, Column Collection

Magazine Non-Fiction Article

Anupreeta Das, First Place, The Search for the Beautiful

Paul Crocetti, Second Place, Breaking Faith

Melissa Beecher, Third Place, Broken Lives

Online Opinion & Commentary

Laura Morgenthau, First Place

Best All-Around Independent Online Student Publication

BU Science Journalists, Second Place, Hypercube
(Andrea Carter, Jenna Beck, Karen Rowan, Laura Morgenthau, Eliiot Baker, Lauren Cox, Lauren Cahoon, Iris Tse, Rhada Chitale, Joseph Brownstein, Vijay Venkatraman and Kristina Grifantini)

Best Student Magazine

Third Place, Staff, The Comment