Recent awards to faculty and students
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Students and faculty are winning national and regional honors for their work.
Among the recent faculty award winners are Chris Roush (Scripps Howard Foundation journalism teacher of the year); Jock Lauterer (Provost Award for Engaged Scholarship); Chad Stevens (ASME National Magazine Award for Digital Media); and Cathy Packer (N.C. Press Association First Amendment Award). Janas Sinclair was elected secretary for the American Academy of Advertising for 2011. Tom Linden’s book – “The New York Times Reader: Health & Medicine" – was published this month by CQ Press.
Recent student award winners include John Adkisson (N.C. Press Photographers Association College
Photographer of the Year); Andrew Dunn and Matthew Lynley (Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business contest); Ashley Lopez (third in the national Hearst Journalism Awards radio multimedia competition); Bethany Tuggle (fifth in the Hearst TV news category); and Powell Latimer (10th in the Hearst sports writing competition).
The school's advertising students won two of the four 2010 ADDY awards presented by the Raleigh-Durham American Advertising Federation. NJ Placentra won gold for his magazine campaign for Bose audio systems. A team of students – Melissa Withorn, Mackenzie Gibbs, Paula Buzzi, Adam Hinson and Sarah Whitworth – won a silver ADDY for their non-traditional advertising work on international non-profit Carolina for Kibera (CFK).
Pictures of the Year International selected the school’s interactive multimedia project “Powering A Nation,” which explores the crisis and challenges of energy in America, for an Award of Excellence in the documentary project of the year category.