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Awards announced for annual David M. Kennedy Center photo contest

The David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University is pleased to announce the winners of the ninth annual International Study Programs photo contest in conjunction with International Education Week, November 17-21.

An awards reception will be held Monday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. in the David M. Kennedy Center conference room, 238 Herald R. Clark Building, where the winners will discuss their international study experiences and the circumstances surrounding the photos they took during the 2007-2008 academic year.

First place and $100 goes to Autumn Gardner for her entry “Pausing for Rain,” taken in Cambodia; second and third place go to Mary Vance for her entries “Entertaining the Little One” and “Happiness can be Found Anywhere,” taken in China. Vance also received Honorable Mention for four entries: “We Flit, We Fly,” “Laughter is the Key,” “Our Happy Abode” and “Rain, Rain, Go Away.”

Honorable mention awards also go to Lauren Eberly, Walter Fazio, Jean Lee, Dani Shurtleff, Brock Weaver, Nathan Smith and Ashley Seil.

For more information, contact International Study Programs at (801) 422-3686 or isp@byu.edu, or visit kennedy.byu.edu/isp.

Writer: Brady Toone

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Photo by Mark Showalter

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