Raising the Bar

Students in College achieve national acclaim

	Glenn Danforth captured this confrontation between a minister and member of the KKK in Lake City. This photo was a national SPJ winner.

Students from the College of Journalism and Communications have finished first on the national stage.

Public relations majors won the Bateman Case Study Competition sponsored by the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) for the seventh time in the last 18 years. The team brought home a $2,500 prize. more >>

Photojournalism majors won the Hearst Photojournalism Competition for the first time—besting Western Kentucky University which had won 11 consecutive years. The team won $4,350 in scholarships, with a match for the Department. The Department also received a $10,000 first prize. more >>

	Michael Tercha, as part of his Hearst Shootout, photographed members of the Sernag Kratib dance troup waiting to perform at a Thai Cultural Fair.

Photojournalism major Michael Tercha finished first in the Hearst Photo Shootout in San Francisco—out-dueling 11 other top photojournalists, including UF’s Glenn Danforth, who was also a finalist. Tercha and Danforth won $5,000 and $1,000 scholarships, respectively. more >>

Glenn Danforth won first place nationally in the Photography/General News category of the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence 2000 competition for published college work. His photo showed an African-American minister arguing with a KKK member in Lake City and was published in The Independent Florida Alligator. The same photo was a national first-place winner in the news/sports round of the Hearst competition last year.

	Flames from the Mallory Swamp light up the sky near Mayo, Fla., May 26, 2001. Smoke from the 55,000-acre fire was reported as far north as South Carolina and as far south as Tampa. (AP photo by Glenn Danforth)

Advertising and public relations majors finished first in the Leonard J. Raymond Collegiate ECHO competition sponsored by the Direct Marketing Association. The students developed an integrated marketing communications plan for the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation, a non-profit affiliate of the DMA. They bested 124 entries from 23 other colleges and universities and won the Gold Echo Award. more >>

Add to that a second-place finish and a $400 prize for public relations majors who competed in the National Organ & Tissue Donor Awareness Competition sponsored by PRSSA; and a fourth place finish for UF in the Hearst Broadcast News competition. more >>