Awards & Scholarships

Sherman R. Miller Award - Outstanding Senior
(in the University of Arizona School of Journalism)

Leadership and Service Award
recognizes individuals who have made special contributions to the School of Journalism through their work outside of class

Arizona Daily Wildcat Alumni Award
in recognition of career achievement and general excellence at the paper

William Hattich Award
for professionalism in journalism

Keith Busch Memorial Scholarship
for a student copyeditor, in memory of Keith, who I knew and who passed away in spring 2008

U of A Journalism Scholarship

Arizona Press Club Scholarship
selected as one of three throughout the state

B.P. Campbell Award for Most Outstanding Junior
(in the University of Arizona Journalism Department)

Concerned Media Professionals
first-place scholarship recipient

D.C. “Darn Cat” Scholarship
awarded to a journalism student in memory of the authors of “That Darn Cat”

Arizona Daily Wildcat Award for Excellence in Copyediting
when Nicole Santa-Cruz was editor in chief.

Arizona Daily Wildcat Staff Member of the Week
(on the copy desk)

Magellan Circle Scholar
(U of A College of Social Sciences scholarship award)

First Prize in the 2005 Student’s Guide to First-Year Writing Essay Contest
(award & publication as a freshman)

Selected for the Mark Finley Gold Pen Newswriting Competition

University of Arizona Provost Scholarship
(received four times)

University of Arizona President’s Award for Excellence
(scholarship received four times)

First-Level Honors Award
(half-way mark to graduating with honors)

Valedictorian, Santa Rita High School, 2004