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UNC UNC Hussman grants more than $1.99M total through scholarships, awards for 2017-18
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media granted $534,390 through private funding in the 2017-18 academic year for scholarships and awards.
More than $1.46 million was also awarded to graduate students through the Roy H. Park Fellowships alone, made possible by private support from the Triad Foundation.
Congratulations to the following UNC Hussman recipients:
Scholarships
A.C. Snow and Katherine Snow Smith Scholarship
- Karen Stahl
A.W. Huckle Memorial Scholarship
- Alexander Kormann
- Sarah Lundgren
Ameel J. Fisher Scholarship
- Alexandra Hummel
- Alexandria Robinson
American Advertising Federation (Triangle Chapter-AFF)
- Alexandria Robinson
Ann Sawyer Cleland Scholarship
- Caroline Bass
Ardis Kipp Cohoon Scholarship
- Rachael Head
Bob Quincy Scholarship
- Thomas Begg, Jr.
- Zita Voros
C.A. “Pete” McKnight Scholarship
- Tess Bettinsoli
- Shandel Menezes
Carl Council Scholarship
- Logan Castrodale
Carol Reuss Award
- Bryant Chappell
Charles McCorkle Hauser Scholarship
- Molly Smith
Clarence E. and Jane P. Whitefield Scholarship
- Jessica Abel
David Jordan Whichard II Scholarship
- Alexis Allston
- Zachary Goins
David Julian Whichard Scholarship
- Margaret High
- Rachel Jones
Diane Harvey Bradley Scholarship
- Stephanie Edmonds
- Parth Upadhyaya
Don S. Maurer Advertising Scholarship
- Austin Thomas
Douglas N. Marlette Memorial Scholarship
- Ryan Haar
E. Eugene Jackson Scholarship
- Tess Bettinsoli
- Kyle Zimmerman
Edward Heywood Megson Scholarship
- Erin Robinson
Elton Casey Scholarship
- Lydia Davis
Emma Lineberger Scholarship
- Renata D’Agrella
Erin A. Wiltgen Scholarship
- Brooke Fisher
Erwin Potts Scholarship
- Veronica Venegas
Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation Scholarship
- Danielle Chemtob
- Sydney Price
- Lillian Skopp
F. Weston Fenhagen Scholarship for International Students
- Patty Matos Aguilera
- Isabella Courtenay-Morris
- Jingyuan Zhou
Glenn Keever Scholarship
- Brittany Casali
Hoffman Award
- Robert Ellis
James Davis Scholarship
- John Bratcher
- Lydia Trogdon
James F. Hurley III Bicentennial Merit Scholarship
- Kelly Bumb
- Jamey Cross
John Albert Campbell III Sports Communication Scholarship
- Courtney Decker
John Harden Scholarship
- Sean Kurz
John L. Greene, Jr. Scholarship
- Eleanor Reneke
- Emma Tobin
Jonathan H. Witherspoon Scholarship
- Taylor Tyson
Kays Gary Scholarship
- Ashley Mills
Knight Foundation Distinguished Journalism Scholarship
- Yizhong Zhang
Louis M. Connor, Jr. Scholarship
- Jeffrey Friday
- Kaitlyn Karcher
Mackey-Byars Scholarship for Communication Excellence
- Kai Heslop
Marjorie Usher Ragan Scholarship
- Kiley Burns
Mary Kathryn Forbes Scholarship
- Jessica Ford
- Joy Lackey
- Elizabeth Singletary
- Caroline Sink
Michael John Sauer Scholarship for Sports Communication
- Parth Upadhyaya
Michael R. Bumgardner Scholarship
- Molly Jordan
Molly McKay Scholarship
- Hayley Boland
N.C. Black Publishers Scholarship
- Kai Heslop
N.C. Working Press Scholarship
- William McKeithan
Orville Gray and Lucille M. Cobbs Memorial Scholarship
- Yan Qu
Paul Green Houston Scholarship
- Daniel McKay
Peter DeWitt Pruden and Phyllis Harrill Pruden Scholarship
- Lindsey Hoover
- Lyric Lin
- Samuel Shepard
- Myah Ward
Philip Alston Scholarship
- Brooke Murad
Quincy Sharpe Mills Memorial Scholarship
- Maryam Mohamed
Raleigh Mann Scholarship
- Haley Hodges
Reese Felts Scholarship
- Maria Vizcaino
Rick Brewer Scholarship
- Katy Dettmer
Robert Winchester Dodson Scholarship
- Piper Anderson
Stephen Gates Memorial Scholarship
- Payton Walker
Stephenson-Biddix Scholarship
- Cassandra Hazell
Tom Bost Scholarship
- Bethany Lane
- Kayli Watson
Tom Bowers Scholarship
- Jason Armond
Tucker Family Scholarship
- Jessica Dulin (Endowed)
- Elizabeth Holmes (Endowed)
- Molly Horak (Expendable)
- Trinity Turlington (Expendable)
Victoria M. Gardner Scholarship
- Caroline Bass
- Kathryn Macomson
WTVD Scholarship
- Joshua Brown
- Stephanie Edmonds
- William Kilby
Undergraduate Awards for Extracurricular Activities
Cole Campbell Professional Development Fund
- Peter Andringa
- Caroline Baxendale
- Danielle Chemtob
- Diandra Dwyer
- Andrea Gonzales
- Adam Lau
- Amy Nelson
- Madison Walls
Don and Barbara Curtis Excellence Fund for Extracurricular Activities
- Barbrianna Adams
- Peter Andringa
- Tess Bettinsoli
- Mistyre Bonds
- Savannah Britt
- Rachel Brittain
- Kiley Burns
- Megan Nicole Cain
- Carolina Public Relations Student Society of America
- Danielle Chemtob
- Sabrina Cheung
- Brooklynn Cooper
- Crash Campaign
- Katie Dettmer
- Carlyann Edwards
- Eva Ellenburg
- Clara Femia
- Chapel Fowler
- Haley France
- Ana Guerrero
- Anne Marie Hagerty
- Cambria Haro
- Caeli Harr
- Nathan Klima
- Alex Kormann
- Jacky Lizama
- Chandler McKinney
- Shandel Menezes
- Caroline Metzler
- Gabby Micchia
- Evan Myers
- Elise Pericles
- Abigail Pressley
- Ashley Parsons Rieker
- Gwendolyn Renee Smith
- Elle Sommerville
- Parth Upadhaya
- Maria Vizcaino
- Alma Washington
- Ariana Wiggins
- Jintong Wu
- Ruijia Zhang
- Yizhong (Elaine) Zhang
Patricia Miller Moore Award
- Alex Gailey
- Abby Greene
- Anne Marie Hagerty
- Shandel Menezes
- Alma Washington
Undergraduate Awards for Global Experiences
Canady International Award
- Caroline Bass
- Isabella Courtenay-Morris
- Abbey Rogers
Chuck Stone Citizen of the World Award
- Micah Stubbs
Edward Jackson International Travel Award
- Bridget Williams
MJ Global Immersive Fund
- Ryan Alderman (China)
- Caroline Baxendale (China)
- Hayley Boland (China)
- Renata D’Agrella (China)
- Jessica Ford (China)
- Kyra Harbert (China)
- Doni Holloway (China)
- Madalyn Marshall (China)
- Brittany Catucci (London)
- Kathryn Dettmer (London)
- Holly Hicks (London)
- Haley Hodges (London)
- Kaitlyn Karcher (London)
- William Kilby (London)
- Sean Kurz (London)
- Shruti Nanjappan (London)
- Rachael Scott (London)
- Peyton Chance (Puerto Rico)
- Danielle Chemtob (Puerto Rico)
- Hanna Davison (Puerto Rico)
- Kaia Findlay (Puerto Rico)
- Robert Gourley (Puerto Rico)
- Kaitlin Harlow (Puerto Rico)
- Alexander Kormann (Puerto Rico)
- Gabrielle Palacio (Puerto Rico)
- Maria Vizcaino (Puerto Rico)
- Avery Williams (Puerto Rico)
- Ruijia Zhang (Puerto Rico)
- Taylor Battle (Study abroad)
- Brooklynn Cooper (Study abroad)
- Kylie Spencer (Study abroad)
- Kayli Watson (Study abroad)
William G. Arey Jr. International Communications Award
- Leah Asmelash
- Sean Kurz
Undergraduate Awards for Immersive Experiences
Eugene L. Roberts Prize
- Kiana Cole
- Anne Marie Hagerty
John Sweeney Experience Award
- Elizabeth Byrne
- Ashton Eleazer
John Sweeney Interview Fund
- Louis Levin
Rich Beckman Documentary Award
- Peyton Chance
- Hanna Davison
- Gabrielle Palacio
Robin Clark Experience
- Alexis Allston
- Samantha Paisley
Visual Storytellers Community Fund
- Courtney Staton
WUNC Fletcher Fellow for Education Policy Reporting
- Liz Schlemmer
Undergraduate Awards for Internships
AT&T Business Internship Award
- Hannah Lang
Edward Lee Rankin Jr. Internship in Public Relations
- Abigail Ueland
Jim and Pat Thacker Sports Communication Internship
- John Bauman
- Blake Richardson
Jim Batten Community Newspaper Internship
- Bailey Aldridge
- Molly Horak
The Lookout Fellows Program
- Chuka Akpom
- Renata D’Agrella
- Briana Martin
- Ariana Wiggins
M.S. Van Hecke Award
- Hannah Lang
N.C. Medical Society Foundation Medical Journalism Internship
- Jared Weber
The News & Observer Internship
- Rashaan Ayesh
Scripps Howard Foundation Internship/Scholarship
- Madison Walls
Sharoky Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C.
- Caroline Bass
- Mary Bolt
- Isabella Courtenay-Morris
- Samantha Dikolli
- Melissa Hirsch
- Rebecca Kronebusch
- Kyle Marshall
- Alexandria Nolley
- Aubrey Patti
- Alexandria Pinon
- Abigail Shephard
- Elissa Tew
- Emily Wakeman
- Andrew Wishon
Awards for Graduate Students
Joseph L. Morrison Award for Excellence in Journalism History
- Chris Gentilviso
Kathryn M. Cronin Scholarship
- Abigail Brewer
Margaret A. Blanchard Scholarship
- Jennifer Harker
The Maxwell Scholarship in Graduate Medical Journalism
- Jeremiah Murphy
- Minali Nigam
Minnie S. and Eli A. Rubinstein Research Awards
- Chris Etheridge
- Jennifer Harker
- Seoyeon Kim
Roy H. Park Fellowships
- Sophia Allison (M.A.)
- Kirk Bado (M.A.)
- Larisa Bennett (M.A.)
- Brady Blackburn (M.A.)
- Maggie Blunk (M.A.)
- Meredith Collins (M.A.)
- Veasey Conway (M.A.)
- Bridgette Cyr (M.A.)
- Katria Farmer (M.A.)
- Jordan Fieulleteau (M.A.)
- Elliott Gentile (M.A.)
- Chris Gentilviso (M.A.)
- Arshya Gurbani (M.A.)
- Ashley Hedrick (M.A.)
- Laurie Hursting (M.A.)
- Jane Kim (M.A.)
- Adam Lau (M.A.)
- Tyler Lee (M.A.)
- Evelyn Mitchell (M.A.)
- Cinnamon Moore (M.A.)
- Jeremiah Murphy (M.A.)
- Amy Nelson (M.A.)
- Holly Roberts (M.A.)
- Natalie Roush (M.A.)
- Jordan Wilkie (M.A.)
- Elizabeth Troutman Adams (Ph.D.)
- Kirsten Adams (Ph.D.)
- Trevor Bell (Ph.D.)
- Deborah Dwyer (Ph.D.)
- Chris Etheridge (Ph.D.)
- Nicholas Gross (Ph.D.)
- Jennifer Harker (Ph.D.)
- Justin Kavlie (Ph.D.)
- Jordan Morehouse (Ph.D.)
- Kriste Patrow (Ph.D.)
- Jeannette Porter (Ph.D.)
- Jacob Rohde (Ph.D.)
- Ken Tarbous (Ph.D.)
- Kyla Garrett Wagner (Ph.D.)
- Shannon Zenner (Ph.D.)
Tom Wicker Award
- Kimothy Jones
William Francis Clingman, Jr. Ethics Awards
- Deborah Dwyer
- Chris Gentilviso
Superlatives
Earl Wynn Creative Broadcasting Award
- Doni Holloway
Furman Bisher Medal
- Paul Beam
- Michael Koh
James J. Mullen Outstanding Graduating Senior Award in Advertising
- Elizabeth Roberts
Jeff MacNelly Award
- Danielle Chemtob
John Robert Bittner Outstanding Graduating Senior Award in Broadcast and Electronic Journalism
- Anne Marie Hagerty
Joy Gibson MATC Cohort Award
- Stephany Pritchard
Larry and Carolyn Keith Awards
- Nathan Klima (Photojournalism)
- Blake Richardson (Writing)
Lois and H.C. Cranford Outstanding Graduating Senior Award in Public Relations
- Rachel Rhodes
O.J. “Skipper” Coffin Outstanding Graduating Senior Award in Reporting
- Kiana Cole
Outstanding Graduating M.A. in Mass Communication
- Lindsie Trego
Outstanding Graduating M.A. in Technology and Communication
- Niel Sollod
Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award
- Scott Brennen
Roger and Dorothy Jennings Entrepreneurial Award
- Dara Burg
Smith Galli Persistence Award
- Sloan Hampton Taylor
Stuart Sechriest Outstanding Graduating Senior Award in Visual Communication
- Peyton Chance