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Communication Student Wins Award at Carolinas Convention

A College of Charleston communication undergraduate student, Kristen Thompson, won first place in the 2009 Carolinas Communication Association's Mary E. Jarrard Undergraduate Paper Award competition.

The Jarrard Award winners were named at the Annual Convention of the Carolinas Communication Association, which was held September 2009 in Wilmington, NC.

Thompson won first place honors for her paper on media and popular culture, titled "The power of ‘pimp’: A critical look at 50 Cent’s P.I.M.P."

"There is strong competition for this award," said Brian McGee, Chair of the Department of Communication. "My faculty colleagues and I congratulate Kristen Thompson for this recognition."

Thompson is having a good year. She graduated in April 2009 from the College of Charleston with a double major in communication and political science, though she was an undergraduate at the time she wrote the current paper. In April, she received the College of Charleston’s highest award for an undergraduate, the Bishop Robert Smith Award.

Earl Capps, Anna-Fiona Cooke and Kathryn DuRant are past College of Charleston winners of the undergraduate or graduate Jarrard awards.

Another College of Charleston undergraduate, Patrick Hart, presented a paper at the CCA convention and competed for the Jarrard Award.

Two College of Charleston faculty members, Lynn Cherry and Celeste Lacroix, are past presidents of the Carolinas Communication Association.

Kristen Thompson '09

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