Student News
MOSCOW – Idaho sophomore Alyssa Charlston was one of six women’s basketball players in a nine state region to earn first-team Academic All-District honors, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Charlston, a native of Sammamish, Wash., maintains a 4.00 Grade Point Average as a broadcasting and digital media major, and is the only sophomore among District 7 honorees, which includes Division I players from the states of Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming.
The 6-foot-1 post has been Idaho’s most productive player this season, leading the team with 14.5 points and 8.1 rebounds per game, while shooting a team-best 47.5 percent from the field. Charlston has scored in double figures in 17 of Idaho’s 22 games and has six double-doubles on the season. Charlston also ranks in the top five in the Western Athletic Conference in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots.
The first-team all-district honor automatically advances Charlston to the ballot for CoSIDA Academic All-America, where first-, second- and third-team All-American honorees will be selected later this month.
The Argonaut, the student newspaper, and
The Blot, the student magazine, each won several awards in the 2010 Idaho Press Club competition, including General Excellence.
You can find more information at
http://idahopressclub.org/annual-awards/2010-best-of-awards.
The Argonaut and
The Blot also won web site awards in the 2010 Region 10 Society of Professional Journalists competition. You can find more information at
http://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=1052
Faculty and Staff News
Denise Bennett’s documentary about high school football, titled “Pups,” won the Best Documentary Short prize at the 2010 All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival.
Patricia Hart won the Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography Award, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington, 2010, for her book, A Home for Every Child, The Washington Children’s Home Society in the Progressive Era.
Glenn Mosley completed the manuscript for the book Jeffrey Hunter and Temple Houston, published in July, 2011 by Bear Manor Media.
Julie Scott is the host and producer for a weekly half-hour program, Inside the Vandals, which includes students from the JAMM course, Broadcast Sports Reporting. Some of those students are pictured here with Dennis Patchin of KXLY- TV, Spokane, who met with the students during the first week of class in the fall 2011 semester.
Rebecca Tallent published an article on the Cherokee Independent Press Act of 2000 in the Journal of Communication Inquiry, July 2011.
School News
Alison Kartevold (’88), a reporter for NBC- TV and newly published author, met with Jamm students in April 2011 and spoke at the Jamm Senior Reception.
Scholarship Honors Sandra Haarsager
The School of Journalism and Mass Media has established a scholarship to honor the memory of Sandra Haarsager, a long-time University of Idaho administrator and JAMM faculty member who died October, 2007.
The scholarship will be awarded to a student who demonstrates Sandra’s intellectual curiosity, interdisciplinary interests and strong writing abilities.
Contributions may be sent to the Trust and Investments Office, PO Box 3143, Moscow, ID 83844-3143. Checks should be made payable to the University of Idaho Foundation; the memo line should indicate “Sandra Haarsager Scholarship, designation code DE630.” Contributions also may be made through the University’s secure Web site: www.sites.uidaho.edu/giving/
For more information, contact JAMM Director Kenton Bird at kbird@uidaho.edu
