2016
CEHD communicators were the big winners at the U of M Communicators Forum Awards in 2016. CEHD came away with seven awards out of more than 170 submissions:
- Ellen Fee, student writer in the Office of Communications, won the the Gold Award for short feature writing for “Read to Me!” She also won Maroon awards for “Fashion Forwards” (short feature) and “Multiple Pathways to Teaching” (long feature). Work by communicators Gayla Marty, Nance Longley, and Steve Baker contributed to these award-winning pieces. Photographer Greg Helgeson and student graphic designer Jennifer Yelk also contributed to the Multiple Pathways story. And photographer Warren Bruland contributed to the Fashion Forwards story.
- Gayla Marty won Maroon awards in writing for “Special Delivery” (long feature) and “Grand Family” (short feature). Nance Longley contributed to the presentation of these, as did the web team’s Susan Andre on the photography for Grand Family, a profile of the School of Social Work’s Priscilla Gibson.
- Nance Longley won a Maroon design award for “A Year in Birds in Minnesota” calendar (multi-page print). Other contributors honored for this award were photographer Paul Nelson, External Relations’ Noriko Gamblin, and U staffers and bird experts Robert Zink and Jennifer Menken.
- Longley also won a Maroon design award for the CEHD undergraduate recruitment brochures (campaign-promotional). Other contributors to this project were Student Services’ Christina Clarkson and Owen Marciano, and photographer Dawn Villella.
2015
CEHD won four Maroon awards at the U of M Communicators Forum Awards ceremony:
- “A Year in Minnesota, Woodblock Prints by Jim Meyer” (calendar), Nance Longley, Lori Endsley, Noriko Gamblin, Jann Jarvis, and Jim Meyer
- “The Death of the Death Penalty?” (writing, long feature), Nance Longley, Gayla Marty, and Adam Overland
- “The Rivers That Connect Us” (writing, long feature), Susan Andre, Nance Longley, Gayla Marty, and Patrick O’Leary
- “Taking Flight Through Her Research” (writing, short feature), Greg Helgeson, Nance Longley, Gayla Marty, Rick Moore, and Patrick O’Leary.