Spring 2005
Awards & Accolades
Students
Maya Babu (senior honors, psychology and neuroscience) was named one of Glamour magazine’s Top 10 College Women. Babu, a 2004 Truman Scholar, hopes to use the platform to talk about issues that are important to her, particularly mental-health issues. The Eagan, Minnesota, native is founder and editor of the public service journal The Bridgeand is a founder and coordinator of the University Promise Alliance, a group that mobilizes students and communities for service projects with children and their families in the Twin Cities. Babu, who will graduate this year, said she plans to earn both law and medical degrees.
The Minnesota Centennial Showboat and the Showboat Players were honored with two awards during Minnesota Meetings and Events 2005 “Best of” Awards Ceremony and Gala. The Minnesota Centennial Showboat won the Best Unique Venue award for the state of Minnesota and the Showboat Players were honored with a Best Theatre Company award.
Camelia Bejan (Ph.D. economics, expected spring ’05) received a 2004 Young Economist Award from the European Economics Association.
Melissa Weimer (Ph.D. student, sociology) won the Sociologists of Minnesota Best Graduate Student Paper Award.
The American Advertising Federation selected Gloria Delgadillo (journalism and mass communication) as one of America’s Most Promising Minority Students. She is the third SJMC student to win the award in the past four years.
Alyssa Anderson (doctoral candidate, music) took first place at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. Robb Asklof (M.M. ‘04) finished in second place.
Four students received fall 2004 CLA Undergraduate Internship Grants: Jessica Medearis, a legal and resource intern with Chrysalis in Minneapolis; Angela Christine Schroeder, a tutor at CLUES, the largest Latino nonprofit organization in Minnesota; Mohamed H. Sabur, a campaign intern with [U.S. Rep. Betty] McCollum for Congress in St. Paul; and Yiling Wong, an international family intern with the Minneapolis Area Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Richard Hermes (M.F.A., creative writing) received the 2004 Minnesota Monthly Tamarack Award for his story “Dockwalloper.” This $10,000 award is one of the largest prizes for a single work of short fiction in the country. In 2003, Hermes received the English Department’s Gesell Award in Fiction.
School of Journalism and Mass Communication student Tyler Richter (journalism) won a regional Emmy in the college news and informational category for “Drum Major Tryouts.” Audrey Lynette Harpel (journalism) won a regional Emmy in the college non-news and entertainment category for “The Dragonfly Project.