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Three students from the ½­ÄÏÌåÓý State Salem Campus were recognized by ½­ÄÏÌåÓý’s English department during the annual student awards ceremony earlier this month.

Derek Shasteen received the prestigious Anna Ulen Engleman Creative Writing Award for his work of poetry. He is a junior English major, taught by Dr. Craig Paulenich, English professor at ½­ÄÏÌåÓý State Salem.

Receiving the Bedford St. Martin’s College Writing Essay Awards were Michelle Santini, for placing first in the Tier I level of competition, and Jonathon McCann, placing first in the Tier II level. Santini is a freshman, majoring in nursing, while McCann is a freshman pre-med major. Both were taught by James Winter, English lecturer on the Salem Campus.

The ½­ÄÏÌåÓý State Salem students’ works were judged against submissions from students representing all of ½­ÄÏÌåÓý State’s campuses.

The awardees in the photos are shown with Robert Trogdon, chairman of the ½­ÄÏÌåÓý State Department of English.