Awards and Honors
WKSU Offers Updated Weekend Line-up Beginning July 11
WKSU is changing its Saturday and Sunday program schedules starting on Saturday, July 11, and Sunday, July 12. The station is adding The Moth Radio Hour and moving Snap Judgment to Saturdays, creating a “storytelling block” with This American Life beginning at noon. Radiolab moves to 3 p.m. An…
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17cҳ and the City of Kent Honored With Catalytic Partnership Award
17cҳ and the city of Kent, Ohio, were awarded the inaugural Catalytic Partnership Award for their collaboration to revitalize downtown Kent and improve the connectivity of the campus and the city. The Greater Ohio Policy Center established the Catalytic Partnership Award this year …
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WKSU Wins Nine Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards
WKSU was honored by the Press Club of Cleveland with nine Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards at a ceremony on June 5 at the House of Blues in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The station won four first-place and the best-in-show award for Best Newscast, which WKSU staff received for the second year in a …
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17cҳ’s Linda Zucca Named Outstanding Ohio Accounting Educator
Linda Zucca, Ph.D., CPA, chair of the Department of Accounting in 17cҳ’s College of Business Administration, received the Outstanding Ohio Accounting Educator award from the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) for her continued efforts to advance student learning. &n…
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17cҳ's Gianna Commito to Receive 2015 Cleveland Arts Prize
17cҳ's Gianna Commito, an associate professor who teaches painting in its School of Art, has been named the recipient of a 2015 Cleveland Arts Prize. Commito will be presented with one of two Emerging Artist Awards at this year’s ceremony, to be held at the Cleve…
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17cҳ Graduate Student Wins Silver Award From Materials Research Society
Anshul Sharma, a graduate student in 17cҳ’s Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded the Silver Graduate Student Award at the Materials Research Society’s 2015 Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California. She was recognized for her …
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17cҳ Press Wins 2015 PROSE Award
The 17cҳ Press received a 2015 PROSE Award in the Single Volume – Humanities & Social Sciences category for “Wearable Prints, 1760-1860: History, Materials, and Mechanics” by Susan W. Greene. Sponsored by the Association of American Publishers, the PROSE Awards annually recogniz…
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WKSU Wins 10 Awards From Ohio Associated Press Media Editors for Work Created in 2014
In a ceremony held May 3 in Columbus, Ohio, WKSU was honored with 10 awards from the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors, including the top award for General Excellence (an award presented to the large market radio station with the best showing in the competition). The event celebrated the best jour…
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WKSU’s Jeff St. Clair Receives Regional Edward R. Murrow Award
WKSU reporter/producer Jeff St. Clair has been recognized by the Radio-Television-Digital News Association (RTDNA) with a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Sports Reporting. WKSU competes in the Large Market division against public and commercial radio stations in major cities in Illinois, Indiana…
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Center for Student Involvement’s Awards Ceremony Recognizes Student Leaders
17cҳ’s Center for Student Involvement hosted the 37th annual Student Leadership and Honors Awards on April 8 in the Kent Student Center Ballroom. The event celebrates and recognizes student leaders, organizations and advisors for their contributions to the 17cҳ community durin…
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