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Year In Review

June 2011

Radio station wins top honors

Radio station competes with the pros, brings back first-place honors

WMLU student staffers (from left) Ashley Bowles, Brigid Hokana, Keenan Crump, Ben Maitland and Nathan Epstein accepted two awards the station received from the Virginia Association of Broadcasters.

Longwood campus radio station WMLU received two first-place awards from the Virginia Association of Broadcasters (VAB) in June 2011. The station captured top honors for Outstanding Sports Coverage and for Best Station Promotion/Contest for a non-commercial/public radio station.

This was the third consecutive year that WMLU received the first-place award for sports coverage. In 2010, WMLU received the second-place award for the best station promotion.

“Longwood is the only college or university to receive an award from the VAB for three consecutive years,” said Jeff Halliday, assistant professor of communication studies, who is co-adviser to the station. The sports award was for overall coverage, and the other award was for a 60-second promotion for Bandfest, sponsored by WMLU and held the Friday of Spring Weekend.

WMLU (www.wmlu.org), a 250-watt station that started in 1981, does live streaming of music and student programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Vice president for advancement named

New vice president for advancement brings wide range of experience

Dr. Bryan Rowland

Dr. Bryan Rowland, former vice president for advancement at Wright State University and the University of Arizona, was appointed Longwood’s vice president for university advancement in May 2011.

Rowland’s fundraising experience in higher education also includes serving as director of development of two colleges at Virginia Tech, where he worked for nine years and earned his doctorate.

He worked at Wright State in Dayton, Ohio, from 2008-10, serving as president of the WSU Foundation in addition to his duties as vice president for advancement.

At the University of Arizona, Rowland held several development positions from 2002-08, including vice president for development for Arizona Health Sciences with the University of Arizona Foundation. In that position, he managed a development program that raised more than $35 million annually for four colleges and five medical research centers. He also served as senior director of development and alumni relations for that university’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

 

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