SEAS Communications Office earns bounty of professional recognition

The SEAS Communications Office has received 10 awards for outstanding efforts in communications thus far this calendar year. Seven of those awards recognize the overall quality of EQuad News, and three recognize the logo that was created to brand the strategic planning process.

The EQuad News awards are:

• Magnum Opus Gold Award in the category Best Rewrite. This award recognizes the staff’s endeavor to shape a free-lance submission into a feature story that met the editorial goals and objectives of EQuad News. The award-winning feature appeared in the spring 2003 issue and is titled “Building bonds across the ocean: Professor strives to give others opportunity to succeed.” Magnum Opus Awards are judged by professors from the Missouri School of Journalism as well as industry communications professionals.

• Magnum Opus Honorable Mention in the category Best Series of Articles, which recognizes the series titled “Introducing young minds to ubiquity of engineering” that appeared in the winter 2002-2003 issue.

• Dalton Pen Communications Award of Merit in the magazines category. Judges commented that EQuad News is “Very professional, has all of the important elements, and is a great example of effective communication. High scores for coverage and presentation.”

• Crystal Award of Excellence Communicator Award in the category Newsletter/Educational Institution. This award is presented to entrants whose ability to communicate places them among the very best in their field.

• Award of Distinction Communicator Award in the category Writing/Newsletter.

• Award of Distinction Communicator Award in the category Writing/Feature Article for the story titled “Mother’s Dream Puts Princeton in Reach.”

• IRIS Award of Merit, New Jersey International Association of Business Communicators (NJ/IABC), recognizing the story titled “Mother’s dream puts Princeton in reach.”

Contributors to EQuad News include Ann Haver-Allen, director of engineering communications; Sara Peters, engineering communications assistant and principal writer; Alicia G. Brzycki, copy editor; Frank Wojciechowski, photographer; Steven Schultz, writer; and free-lance writers David Barry and Peter Page.
Strategic Planning logo Awards received for the Strategic Planning logo’s ability to visually communicate its message include:

• Dalton Pen Communications Award of Merit in the category Graphic Arts/Logos. This award rec ognizes originality and support of the communications message conveyed in the logo design and execution. Judges commented that “Rather than being confined to the traditional boundaries of logo creation, this one take a highly creative and fresh approach. It works.”

• Honorable Mention Communicator Award in the category Design/Logo.

• IRIS Award of Merit, New Jersey Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (NJ/IABC), in the category Branding and Identity. The NJ/IABC IRIS Award program celebrates excellence in communications. Entries were judged on innovative and effective use of media, design, execution, and successful achievement of communications objectives.

The strategic planning logo was designed and executed by Ms. Haver-Allen.

A fond farewell


This is the last issue of EQuad News that will be produced under the direction of Ann Haver-Allen. Ms. Haver-Allen has resigned her position as director of engineering communications, effective June 30.

During her 12 years at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ms. Haver-Allen transformed EQuad News from a 12-page, irregularly published periodical to an award-winning, 32-page quarterly. Over the past two years alone EQuad News has received 20 awards recognizing excellence in meeting its strategic communications objectives.

“I will miss many friends and colleagues,” Ms. Haver-Allen said. “It has been a pleasure to work with so many intelligent, dedicated professionals. I have had the good fortune of meeting and interviewing many people associated with the SEAS and will always have fond memories of my time here. I will especially miss Deans Emeriti James Wei and Richard Golden '54, who always supported me and trusted my professional judgment.”