April May 2023 College News

Debra Price, her PR campaign class, and Kyle Scholfeild are working to prevent fraud for the Better Business Bureau Rachel Bond has been named a marketing and business professional of the year Alums Lexi and Daphnee Buqet are prinicpals at Bucketworks. They recieved multiple awards at the American Adveristing Awards 16 | April & May 2023 | College News 5 6 First Place for TV Sports Writing , David Cuevas Second Place for Print Sports Writing, Carson Weaver Second Place for News Writing, Nichaela Shaheen Third Place for Radio Sports Writing, Dillon Strine Third Place for Magazine Design, Sarah Manning Third Place for Sports Action Photo, Sarah Manning Previously Published Division I First Place for Feature Story, Carson Weaver First Place for Static Information Graphic, Staff First Place for General Column, Andrew Hodge Second Place for Sports Column, David Cuevas Second Place for Website, Staff Third Place for Feature Photo , Liliana Perez Third Place for Editorial Cartoon Honorable Mention for Best Use of Social Media – Breaking News, Vanessa Buentello The University Star also received two Society of Professional Journalists 2022 Region 8 Mark of Excellence Awards during the annual conference in San Antonio. Those awards were: Finalist for Best Affiliated Website, Staff Finalist for Sports Photography, Vanessa Buentello ALUMNI ACCOLADES Rachel Bond (PR 2006) is the Assistant Vice President of Community Engagement and Public Relations for the Greater Texas Aggieland Credit Union; she has been named the CUNA Marketing and Business Development Council 2023 Community Outreach Professional of the Year. Maira Garcia was appointed Television Editor for The Los Angeles Times . Garcia has worked in Culture and Audience roles at The New York Times since 2012. She now leads The Los Angeles Times coverage of the television and entertainment industries. Jacklyn Mann has moved to Southwest Airlines where she is the Email Digital Developer. She leaves Big Commerce, where she has worked as Automation Specialist since 2020. Claudia Marvin was recently promoted within the Travel, Hospitality and Leisure sector at Ketchum from Account Coordinator to Assistant Account Executive. She was also named one of 72 employees 4