Awards & Recognition

The Strategic Relations and Communications team is recognized for its work telling university stories, engaging campus audiences and advancing university priorities through integrated marketing and communications. Learn about our awards for media relations, editorial content, internal communications, integrated campaigns and more.

2026

Gold Pick Award, Integrated Communications

Value of Research Campaign

Team award in the integrated communications category

Gold Pick Award, Integrated Communications

2026 State of the Campus Campaign

Team award in the integrated communications category, led by Kellen Wilson

Silver Pick Award, Internal Communications

Team award in the integrated communications category, led by Greg Stauffer

Silver Pick Award, Best In-House Team

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Team award

Gold Pick Award, Feature Story

��"AI ghosts are coming: Is that comforting or creepy?"

Lisa Marshall

Gold Pick Award, Feature Story

��"Human emissions drove the megadrought in the Western U.S."

Yvaine Ye

Gold Pick Award, Media Relations

"Common sugar substitute shown to impair brain cells, boost stroke risk"

Lisa Marshall

2025

SWARM Writing Award, Institutional Science Communication

��‘Cyborg jellyfish’ could aid in deep-sea research, inspire next-gen underwater vehicles

Amber Carlson

Silver Pick Award, Feature Story

��"Mountain chickadees have remarkable memories. A new study explains why"

Yvaine Ye

2024

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Award

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Gold Pick Award, Social Media—Single Channel Use

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Gold Pick Award, Feature Story

�� “How animals get their stripes and spots”

Yvaine Ye

Silver Pick Award, Events and Observances

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Silver Pick Award, Media Relations

��“Full Triceratops skeleton now calls Boulder home”
��“5 things to know about the Triceratops, an iconic western dinosaur”
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Daniel Strain, Nicholas Goda

2023

Gold Hermes Creative Award, Video

Nicholas Goda, Kelsey Simpkins

Gold Pick Award, Newsletters

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Gold Pick Award, Media Relations

“CU scientists shine light on what comes up when you flush”

Kelsey Simpkins

Gold Pick Award, Media Relations

��“New Colorado space instrument part of flagship mission to Europa”

Dan Strain

Gold Pick Award, Feature Stories

��“CU Researchers Rethink Mental Illness”

Lisa Marshall

Silver Pick Award, Data Analytics

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Silver Pick Award, Internal Communications

Get out the Vote campaign

Silver Pick Award, Community Relations

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2022

Silver Pick Award, Media Relations

“How therapy, not pills, can nix chronic pain and change the brain”��

Lisa Marshall

Silver Pick Award, Media Relations

“New wearable device turns the body into a battery”

Dan Strain

Silver Pick Award, Media Relations

“Mutation-mapping tool could yield stronger COVID boosters, universal vaccines”

Kelsey Simpkins

Excellence Award Honorable Mention, Short-form

“A Walk in Two Worlds”

Dan Strain

2021

Silver Pick Award, Media Relations

��“New COVID-19 test returns results in 45 minutes, without nasal swab”

Lisa Marshall

2020

Gold Pick Award, Editorials/Op-Ed Columns

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Gold Pick Award, Integrated Communications

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Gold Pick Award, Media Relations

“Volcanic eruption may explain recent purple sunrises”

Dan Strain

Silver Pick Award, Media Relations

“Novel 5-minute workout improves blood pressure, may boost your brain”

Lisa Marshall

Excellence Award, Short-form

“Healthy, stress-busting fat found hidden in dirt”

Lisa Marshall

2019

Gold Pick Award, Media Relations

��“How bright light keeps preschoolers wired at night”

Lisa Marshall

Gold Pick Award, Media Relations

��“‘Chameleon’��tattoos change color, may help diagnose illness”

Dan Strain

Gold Pick Award, Media Relations

��“Next-gen flexible robots move and heal like us”

Trent Knoss

Gold Pick Award, Feature Writing

��“Uncovering Boulder’s forgotten apple tree legacy”

Trent Knoss

Gold Pick Award, Crisis Communications

��How to save a life: When a rabid bat strikes, words matter

Silver Pick Award, Feature Writing

��“Life After Death on the Internet”

Lisa Marshall

Top Pick, Best Shortform Science Writing

��“Blowing the Doors off the Microbial World”

Lisa Marshall

Honorable Mention, Best Shortform Science Writing

��“Healthy, stress-busting fat found hidden in dirt”

Lisa Marshall

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