Eight chapters were recognized for the top-notch communications efforts of their newsletter editors, writers, photographers, artists and Webmasters during the eighth annual UUP Chapter Journalism Contest.

The competition is supervised by the UUP Communications Department and is judged by professional journalists from the Capital District.

Chapter newsletters, Web sites and members earning this year’s awards were:

General Excellence

Best in Class (I): System Administration, System: UUP, edited by Anne Siddall; Best in Class (II): SUNY Stony Brook, Insight, co-edited by Dawn Svoboda-Pappas and Diane Rodriguez; Award of Merit: SUNY Farmingdale, Unifier, edited by Yolanda Pauze; and Honorable Mention: SUNY Cortland, The Cortland Cause, edited by Alex Reid.

Best Web site

Best in Class: Purchase, www.uuphost.org/purchase, Webmaster William Lundmark; and Honorable Mention: Upstate Medical University, www.uupinfosyr.org, Webmaster Dan Dippel.

Best Feature Story

Best in Class: SUNY Stony Brook, Insight, “UUP Marches for Freedom, Justice and Democracy,” by Sarah Battaglia; and Award of Merit: SUNY Oneonta, The Sentinel, by William Simons.

Best Editorial or Column

Best in Class: SUNY Stony Brook, Insight, “Grandma’s Advice to the Young,” by Judith Wishnia; and Award of Merit: SUNY Farmingdale, Unifier, “It’s Just a Matter of Your Priorities,” by Michael Smiles; and Honorable Mention: SUNY Oswego, In Touch, “Let’s Not Get Burned by FIRE’s Rhetoric,” by Donald Masterson.

Best Art or Photo

Best in Class: SUNY Stony Brook, Insight, march photos; and Award of Merit: SUNY Cortland, The Cortland Cause, picnic photos by Dawn Van Hall.

— Karen L. Mattison