Kudos - Week of June 11, 2007

Journalism Department faculty and students helped at the Investigative Reporters and Editors national conference in Phoenix June 7-10. Assistant professor David Cuillier led a session on freedom of information in Arizona with Mark Scarp of the East Valley Tribune. Students Colin Moore, Mitra Felice Taj and Amy Sienicki volunteered at the conference. Other faculty members attending the conference were Jeannine Relly and Lisa Button.

Student Kudos

As seniors, Kate Klein and Karla Gonzalez helped with production of Advancing Arizona, a publication of The University of Arizona Foundation.

Djamila Grossman was featured in the June issue of the National Edition of the Tombstone Epitaph as the first recipient of the Dean Prichard Scholarship. Other student winners mentioned in the article were Nina Conrad, Jeffrey Javier, Courtney Johnson, Meghan Martin, Colin Moore, Ernesto Romero, Nicole Santa Cruz and Allison Winters, who all won William Hattich Awards (named for the former owner of the Epitaph and the Tombstone Daily Prospector). Also cited were Jacqueline Kuder, William Kaner, Robert Watkins and Valarie Potell, winners of the John P. Clum Award (named for the Epitaph's founder).

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