The Pennsylvania Newspaper Association recognized the work of four Campus journalists through the 2007 Scholastic and Collegiate Keystone Press Awards program. Cody Switzer '07, Greg Gaudio '07, and Dan Imperiale '08 received first-place awards in the spot news category. Melissa Muenz '08 received an honorable mention in the review category. Allegheny students competed for the awards against journalists from schools such as Penn State, Temple, and the University of Pittsburgh. The winners were recognized at an awards luncheon on March 14 in Hershey. Lenore Skomal advises the Campus.
Nathan Clendenin '07 delivered a paper, “The Enigma Machine: Henry Darger and the Gesture of Opacity,” at the 4th annual Case Western Reserve University Undergraduate Art History Symposium on March 2 in Cleveland. This was the second consecutive year that Nathan presented a paper at this symposium. Last year he presented “Architecture From Within: Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and the Uncanny.”
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Carla Bluhm and Nathan Clendenin '07 delivered a paper, “Like Peas in an iPod: Technology as Campus Neighborhood,” at the Popular Culture in the Classroom: “Teach, Think, Play” Conference 2007, hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University, March 24-25, in New York City. The paper, which explores classroom uses of podcasting in light of psychoanalytic theory and Formalist literary criticism, was given as part of a two-day conference that featured talks from figures such as Pulitzer Prize–winning author/comic strip artist Art Spiegelman and actor/rapper Ice-T.
David Jortner's article “Remembered Idylls, Forgotten Truths: Memory and Geography in the Drama of Shimizu Kunio” came out in the book “Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernism and the Arts” (Lexington Press, 2007).
Chaplain Jane Ellen Nickell was among recipients of the Bishop James C. Baker Graduate Awards presented by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry's Office of Loans and Scholarships of the United Methodist Church. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology of religion at Drew University.
Environmental Science and Geology lab technician Sam Reese received an “e-chievement” award from etown, a nationally syndicated radio show. The award recognizes people who are working to make a lasting difference in their communities and beyond. Sam was recognized for his work with the Cambridge Community Radio Association and WXCS-92.9 FM in Cambridge Springs–Edinboro, which he helped found and which recently celebrated its third anniversary.
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