NPPF Awards Six Student Scholarships

 

DURHAM, NC (May 24, 2010) – Six college students have been selected by the National Press Photographers Foundation to each receive $2,000 scholarships, NPPF Scholarship Committee chair Dr. James W. Brown announced.

Rachel Mummey, a graduate student at Ohio University, is the winner of the Kit C. King Scholarship, which is exclusively for photojournalists who are pursuing an advanced degree.

Lance Booth, a senior at Western Kentucky University, won the Jimi Lott Scholarship, and Jessey Dearing, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won the Bob Baxter Scholarship.

Leah Millis, a junior at Metropolitan State College of Denver, won the Reid Blackburn Scholarship, and Andrea Morales, a graduate student at Ohio University, won the Bob East Scholarship.

Dan Krauss, a senior at Ohio University, won the NPPF Still & Multimedia Scholarship.

The Bob East, Reid Blackburn, Bob Baxter, Kit C. King, and Jimi Lott Scholarships are endowed by donations from friends, family, and news organizations, while the Foundation funds the Still & Multimedia Scholarship.

More information is available on the Foundation's Web site at http://nppf.org.

 

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