Lee Ridley CPW has awarded a $1,000 scholarship in 2013 to Lee Ridley, a senior at Metropolitan State University in Denver. She carries a straight-A average with a major of social and mobile media journalism. As a nontraditional student, she has returned to college to pursue a second bachelor's degree and seek a career [...]
With 13 outstanding applicants for college scholarships in 2012, CPW decided to grant two awards. First-place winner, Avalon Jacka, received $1,000, and second-place winner, Kaitlyn Schlicht, received $500. Avalon Jacka Avalon Jacka, a Colorado native, has completed her junior year at the University of Colorado. She is majoring in news-editorial journalism with a [...]
Aliese Willard Aliese Willard, entering her junior year in 2011 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, has been awarded Colorado Press Women’s 2011 scholarship. Barbara Gigone, scholarship chair, said CPW board members chose Aliese for the $500 award for her educational background in journalism, high grades and her impressive community service record and [...]
Colorado Press Women has awarded two scholarships to deserving young journalists. Recipients for 2010 are Leah Millis, photo editor at The Metropolitan, the student newspaper for Metro State College in Denver, and Katherine Schultz, Mesa State College in Grand Junction. Undergraduate students majoring in journalism or mass communications at a Colorado university or college are eligible [...]
CPW has awarded a $2,000 one-time scholarship in memory of longtime member Leah Flanders and two $500 scholarships. Maggie Schoonmaker Maggie Schoonmaker, a junior in the University of Colorado's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has won the Leah Flanders Scholarship by Colorado Press Women. Schoonmaker, a graduate of Chatfield High School in [...]
Colorado Press Women awarded three scholarships in 2008 — Donnae Wahl to Donnae Wahl, a student at the University of Northern Colorado; Taylor Stonehouse, a new graduate of Mesa State College; and Zeljka Borovic from the University of Dubrovnik in Croatia. Donnae is a senior political science major, with a minor in women's studies [...]
Kara Lyons, 2007 college scholarship winner Colorado Press Women has awarded its 2007 college scholarship to Kara Lyons, a student at the University of Denver. Kara was born and raised in Lakewood, where she lived with her parents and a brother and sister until heading to college. She began taking journalism classes in her [...]
Christine Powell (left), 2006 college scholarship winner, with CPW member Bobbi Gigone Christine Powell, a student at the University of Northern Colorado, was CPW's 2006 college scholarship winner. She received a $350 scholarship and a free one-year membership in CPW. CPW members honored her during the spring conference. Christine was nominated by her adviser, [...]
