Division of Marketing and Communications team receives four CASE I awards, two honorable mentions
A video, photographs, magazine web designs and writing by members of the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications received some of the top annual awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District I, which represents the New England states, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces in Canada.
Four of the entries won 2020 CASE District I Excellence Awards and two received honorable mentions in the CASE Platinum Awards. All but one are related to UMaine Today magazine, the biannual print and online publication of the Division of Marketing and Communications.
Holland Haverkamp’s video “Maine’s wild blueberries” won gold — the highest honor — in the Excellence Awards video category. Haverkamp is a videographer and photographer in the division.
UMaine Today online won silver in the web-based magazines category thanks to the talents of digital/print content coordinator Amanda Lozier and digital projects specialist Brandi McCann in the fall/winter 2018 and the spring/summer 2019 issues, respectively. The UMaine Today magazine website complements the print edition. The online publication, featuring full-length stories and multimedia storytelling, involves UMaine Today magazine writers, editors, designers and photographers/videographers, and is supported by the Marketing and Communications digital communications team.
A bronze award went to Elyse Catalina, a former news writer and editor, for excellence in writing for her story “Wallflower or risk taker?” about the research of wildlife habitat ecologist Alessio Mortelliti, who examines how personalities of wild small mammals affect their responses to a changing environment.
A bronze for excellence in storytelling went to McCann, Haverkamp and Margaret Nagle, director of public relations, for the online version of “A wild story” about Maine wild blueberry growers and university experts united in the stewardship of the state’s native crop.
Photographer and videographer Adam Küykendall and Haverkamp received honorable mentions in the photography category of the CASE Platinum Awards: Küykendall for his series of photos telling the UMaine story, and Haverkamp for his series of blueberry photos.
All the 2020 CASE District I Excellence Awards are online. A list of all awards to UMaine Today is found on the magazine website.